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Annual Conference sessions

The first Ecsite Conference took place in 1989. Here you can browse all Conference sessions since 2010. Use the search engine to look for people, topics...

Looking for an older session? Our digital records start in 2007, with programme pdfs attached to each conference page

Explainers & visitor services
Nicolas DidierHannu SalmiEric SiegelJudy Diamond

Encouraging youngsters to pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) related studies and careers is a challenge faced by most European countries. How can this objective be achieved?

This session focuses on the role...

Explainers & visitor services
John DowneyPatrizia FamàAnn-Marie PendrillPaul HixElin Roberts

The dinner table is an excellent venue for communication, but science is seldom the topic of choice. Yet a full table offers many objects and utensils, not to mention food, which can be used to present a variety of scientific topics. In this...

Explainers & visitor services
Malvina ArtheauDidier LavalGène Bertrand

Science centres are wonderful places to ignite curiosity and raise awareness about science or technology topics. But how good are they when it comes to stimulating visitors to start their own projects, to build with others or to co-create with a...

Explainers & visitor services
Alex JohnsonElisa Maria CasatiHeidrun SchulzeTalila Yehiel

In informal science learning we often have to face the “no-show” of teenagers. It is difficult to get in touch with them, and they often seem to shy away from the term “science”. Once they do visit places of informal science learning, they often...

Explainers & visitor services

We are in the midst of a new era in communication. How should museums react to virtual reality, for example? Are there new opportunities to captivate audiences and extend museum activities? How could a museum website be a tool to meet unusual and...

Exhibit development
Daniel RosqvistAnnika WaernJohan EckerudDaniel RosqvistLisa Månsson

When the behavior of a target group changes, we need to change with them. With a gamification project called “The Mission”, Tom Tits Experiment in collaboration with Uppsala University and Expology, seeks to meet the expectations of an...

Exhibit development
Mikko MyllykoskiDominique BotbolPäivi GarnerPatricia VerheydenAntonia Caola

Language and translation policies and practices are an easily overlooked sector in the functions of a science centre. Who reads exhibition texts anyway, let alone the different language versions? As far as accessibility is concerned,...

Explainers & visitor services
Camille PisaniMichele LanzingerJean-Marie Sani

Twenty-ten was the International Biodiversity Year and the peak effort to raise awareness about biodiversity and its importance for human well-being. The outcomes were somewhat disappointing as the biodiversity loss is far from being halted....

Research, theory & evaluation
Erik RoupeJoachim LerchHugo VrijdagHans GubbelsMichael Bradke

Science centres and museums play a major role in getting people involved in science and technology. In this session we explore new and different ways of bringing science and technology to “the unusual suspects”: Science and technology...

Exhibit development
Clara Lim

Science centres disseminate science culture by using a senses-on approach, encouraging our audience to look, touch, smell and hear through our exhibits. But is this enough? Is it just the science content and interactive technology of the exhibits...

Explainers & visitor services
Robert WestMikko MyllykoskiIan SimmonsDorothée VatinelMike Bruton

Why and how do science museums engage with sensitive and/or controversial topics in exhibitions and public programmes? Museum locations, governmental relationships, funding sources, political, social and religious environments, and local events...

Operations & finance
Erik Jacquemyn

We have seen science centres become dependent on large financial contributors. But if this contributor fails, centres suddenly miss a large amount of their normal income. Therefore, a science centre should diversify and stand on at least three or...

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