ERN-Apulia3 European Researchers' Night Apulia 2021 - Discovering the fascinating world of research

Summary

ERN-Apulia3 targets to continue bringing Apulian population closer to researchers and viceversa. Apulia is an Italian region with about 4.1 million inhabitants and 4 public universities having a total of about 2800 permanent researchers in addition to those in Public and Private Research Institutions. The large capacity of beneficiaries was already demonstrated in the past EU-funded project for 2018, 2019 and 2020 Nights.
ERN-Apulia3 further enlarged the network of partners in order to overpass its previous achievements. Main objectives are:
- to implement preparatory events and the 2021 ERN, with particular attention to students, industrial and professional organizations, municipalities and public administrations, already actively involved in the past editions;
- to increase public awareness and recognition of the importance and impact of research in daily life, with specific examples from ICT to health and life sciences, from elementary particle to cultural heritage, etc with a special emphasis on societal challenges for the 2021 edition;
- to stimulate curiosity and interest and explain the fascinating world and the opportunities in research, especially to the youngest as a mean to encourage them to embark scientific careers;
- to establish a tight connection among population/institutions and researcher to continue during the year;
- to prepare and publicize dissemination materials along with scientific games and site visits (including laboratories and sites of cultural interest) to be available during the whole year for the general public;
- to explain the spirit and opportunities of the European Research Area, the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions and the principles of ?The European Charter for Researchers?;
- to reach a number of Facebook Impressions >1.5M and Reach >400k, Youtube Views > 30k and watch time > 1000h, followers close to 200k, participants > 100k (among all the various initiatives) and a participants to the ERN > 50k.

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Web resources:	https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101036086
Start date:	02-05-2021
End date:	01-03-2022
Total budget - Public funding:	237 055,00 Euro - 170 850,00 Euro