Science on Stage

What is Science on Stage?

The Science on Stage programme is an innovative, pan-European science education activity, aiming to foster a renewal of science teaching in Europe by encouraging the exchange of new concepts and best practices among teachers from all over the continent and follows from the success of the three editions of the Physics on Stage programme 2000-2003. The goal is to strengthen the awareness and interest of young people in science and technology, a vital precondition for securing the long-term development of our society. There has been one Science on Stage festival and the next festival is planned for 2007:

• Science on Stage 2 will be held at ESRF, Grenoble, France, 2 - 6 April 2007
• Science on Stage 1: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 21 - 25 November 2005

There have been three Physics on Stage festivals:

• Physics on Stage 3: ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 8 - 15 November 2003
• Physics on Stage 2: ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 2 - 6 April 2002
• Physics on Stage 1: CERN, Geneva, Switserland, 6 - 10 November 2000
  

Links to the festival websites can be found on the Science on Stage European website: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/index.html

Organisers

Science on Stage is organised by the seven intergovernmental European research organisations within the EIROforum partnership, a collaboration between:

• European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN
• European Fusion Development Agreement, EFDA
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL
• European Space Agency, ESA
• European Southern Observatory, ESO
• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, ESRF
• Institut Laue-Langevin, ILL

The festival is an integral part of the EIROforum European Science Teachers' Initiative (ESTI), supported by the European Commission in the context of the new NUCLEUS project for Science Education.

Irish participation

The Irish National Steering Committee has sent a delegation of physics teachers and educators to the last four SOS/POS conferences. The participation has been increasing at every festival and at SOS 1 some 500 delegates from 29 countries from all over Europe set up their national stands to display a diverse range of physics experiments and demonstrations. For both POS2 and POS3 festivals, the Irish Delegation and the Irish National Steering Committee have produced a booklet of the best demonstrations selected by the Irish Team, and this booklet has been issued to all Science Teachers in Ireland. The team are presently preparing the booklet from the SOS 1 festival and these entire booklets can be downloaded in pdf format from this website - see links on the left.

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