This January, the REINFORCE team offers you an unprecedented opportunity: the Winter Challenge 2022!
The 2nd Workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion took place last November 17-18, 2021, in virtual modality.
REINFORCE is organising a dedicated course for senior citizens to bring them closer to critical aspects of physics and science. The course is staggered across 10 different lessons, each tackling a different core subject. These subjects span from gravitational waves, to cosmology, relativity and the tight connection between art and science.
Open Science Fair 2021 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services; to identify common practices related to open science; to see what are the best synergies to deliver and operate services that work for many; and to bring experiences from all around the world and learn from each other. REINFORCE will join the event with a dedicated workshop "Citizen Science - open science challenges and opportunities for collaboration" on the 22nd of September, 16.30 (CEST).
The FRONTIERS Summer School brings together educators, researchers in frontier Physics and researchers in science education in order to create a joint framework for introducing frontier Physics in K12 education.
The recent technology advancements have significantly contributed to facilitating access to information to individuals, increasing the opportunities they have to participate in both policy and scientific research.
On the 6th of October, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded with Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their work to understand black holes.
On Wednesday, September 2, the REINFORCE consortium held its General Assembly, gathering researchers and professionals from seven countries to showcase the progress that has been made over the last few months within the project. The meeting took place online and also saw the participation of a number of PhD researchers who have recently been involved in the project.
After the opening remarks made by the Project Coordinator, Stavros Katsanevas, every work package leader or member gave a presentation about the latest updates of the project.
REINFORCE has the ambition to include in the overall effort and scientific community sense-disabled people (especially visually-impaired), senior citizens, but also artists and larger percentages of women. All these groups will enrich the project by bringing external insights into the endeavour, hopefully raising conceptual and innovative ideas in science.
In order for scientists to design the most appropriate opportunities for citizens to contribute in science, a participatory design in citizen engagement is needed
The REINFORCE project has launched its new fully-developed website, offering a user-friendly browsing experience for the project’s target groups, including potential citizens scientists, the scientific and research community, policy makers, social innovators and entrepreneurs, and the broad public beyond the project community.
REINFORCE will be monitoring the impact of the project, identifying enablers and barriers for the development of new knowledge and innovations by citizen scientists.