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Course on Physics for Senior Citizen Scientists

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.

REINFORCE Easter Challenge

This Easter, the REINFORCE team offers you an unprecedented opportunity: the Easter Challenge 2022!

MUTUAL LEARNING EXERCISE Citizen Science Initiatives - Policy and Practice (REPORT)

This report provides background information on the Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science. It is written with a science policy audience in mind and provides an introduction and details of the modus operandi for the MLE.

REINFORCE Winter Challenge -Citizen science

REINFORCE - Winter Challenge Special Draw

REGISTER NOW This January, the REINFORCE team offered the valuable opportunity to join the Winter Challenge 2022, a special contest to support researchers in the fields of High Energy Physics and Gravitational Wave Astronomy to optimize their detectors and to give the possibility to obtain 4 full-paid scholarships to participate in the

REINFORCE Winter Challenge 2022

This January, the REINFORCE team offers you an unprecedented opportunity: the Winter Challenge 2022!

2nd Workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion – REPORT

The 2nd Workshop on Astronomy Beyond the Common Senses for Accessibility and Inclusion took place last November 17-18, 2021, in virtual modality.

Open Science Fair 2021 - Citizen Science: open science challenges and opportunities for collaboration.

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).

ESIA FRONTIERS Summer School 2021 - 12/16 July 2021

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.

Scaling up Citizen Science

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.

2020 Nobel Prize in Physics acknowledges the need to study black holes

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.

Significant progress shown during the Project Consortium Meeting

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.

Exploring the potential of frontier citizen science for inclusion and diversity

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.