Opening session and Welcome 

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Flavia Schlegel Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences – UNESCO 

Isabel Ruiz Mallén Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow and PERFORM project coordinator – IN3 – Open University of Catalonia – UOC

Markus Weißkopf President of the European Science Engagement Association – EUSEA

Casimiro Vizzini Expert at UNESCO

Quentin Cooper Freelance, journalist, BBC presenter, science communicator and facilitator

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María Heras Researcher – Institute of Environmental Science and Technology – ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona – UAB, Spain

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Robin Ince is widely recognised as one of the UK’s most accomplished, versatile comedians with a string of awards and media appearances to his name.

He is predominantly known as a science popularizer and he presents the Sony Award winning Infinite Monkey Cage on BBC Radio 4 with Brian Cox. His other regular radio appearances include: The News Quiz, Just a Minute and as a music profiler on Steve Lamacq’s show for BBC 6 Music. His numerous TV appearances on panel and stand up shows include The Review Show and The TV Book Club as well as a documentaries presenter including Schrodinger’s Cat and Vinyl Culture. Robin’s science tour, Uncaged Monkeys, with Brian Cox, Simon Singh and Ben Goldacre was a sell-out including two nights at Hammersmith Apollo. He is currently on tour with Pragmatic Insanity, his first new stand up show in three years is a clash of two cultures, a joyous romp through his favorite artists and strangest scientific ideas.

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María Heras Researcher – Institute of Environmental Science and Technology – ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona – UAB, Spain

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Holder of a degree in biology of organisms and ecosystems, a master’s degree in evolutionary biology and a post-graduate diploma (DESU) in Montreal and Zimbabwe, Léo Grasset taught biology for a few months before devote to science communication. In June 2014, he created DirtyBiology, his YouTube channel, where he presents biology in an offbeat and humorous way. In 2016 he published How the zebra got its stripes. In October 2017, when his channel exceeded 500,000 subscribers, the comic book The great adventure of sex created with his brother Colas Grasset was released by Delcourt Editions.

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María Heras Researcher – Institute of Environmental Science and Technology – ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona – UAB, Spain

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Ana Peiró holds a PhD in Medicine and a Degree in Anthropology, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Miguel Hernández University, Medical doctor at the Pain Unit and Coordinator of the research group of “Neuropharmacology applied to pain and functional diversity” at the General Hospital of Alicante. She received grants from the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation, La Caixa, and, recently, the Alcaliber Award from the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy. Moreover, she has a career as scientific communicator through FISABIO Foundation and several Spanish universities, receiving the 2^nd prize of the 2017 Famelab-Spain Competition organized by the FECYT and the British Council. She is passionate about the theater, developing her professional career as an actress in several stable companies. This year she has directed a play related with the Spanish Civil War memory and is writing another one about the work of women at the beginning of the 20th century through the Gil Albert Foundation. She believes that gender is a role-play that must unite us.

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How can performing arts change the way we study, learn and teach STEM? Students, teachers, early career researchers who took part in the PERFORM project talk about their experiences.

Céline Martineau, program coordinator, TRACES Association, France; Daniel Carrillo Zapata, researcher, University of Bristol, UK; David Price, Science Communicator, Science Made Simple, UK; Helena González, science communicator, Big Van Science, Spain; Keila González Duval, student, IES Moises Broggi, Spain; Marta Pulido, postdoctoral researcher IDIBAPS, Spain; Mathilde Telegone, teacher, Lycée professionnel Pierre- Mendès, France; Ms. Rachel Beddoes, teacher, Castle School, UK

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How can we fully understand the stereotypes, barriers, and concerns of secondary school students about STEM careers? And how can we dismantle them? During this seminar, the key ideas of PERFORM toolkit will be presented  on how to use drama-based activities to raise new scientific vocations. We will analyze some successful examples to implement Stand Up Comedy, Busking and Impro theater with young people to talk and reflect about STEM and the values embedded in RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation). We will listen to teacher’s and researchers’ experiences and discuss how this method can raise new scientific vocations and how it can be efficiently implemented in formal education.

David Price, science communicator, Science Made Simple, UK; Eva Corrons, teacher, IES Consell de Cent, Spain;
Grace Mullally, PhD Biochemistry, University of Bristol, UK; Helena González and Oriol Marimón, researchers and science communicators, Big Van Science, Spain; Jenny Miñana, student, IES Castellbisbal, Spain; Kelly Board, teacher, Bristol Free School, UK; Paul Boniface, science communicator, TRACES Association, France

(Coordinated by The Big Van Science)

A European panorama of projects that are innovating the way we learn and teach Science and Technology in Europe. From the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions and the training experiences for early career researchers to the projects who combine the paradigm of Responsible Research and Innovation with Science Education a wide panorama of experiences is presented. 

Àgueda Gras Velázquez – Science Programme Manager – Scientix project; Alain Sarkissian – Researcher at LATMOS / UVSQ / CNRS. Edu Artic; Annette Klinkert – Project coordinator – NUCLEUS project; Josep Carreras – Educator and science communicator, Living Lab for Health at IrsiCaixa. Xplore Health; Manel Laporta Grau – Assistant Policy Officer and communication’s coordinator at the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Unit’s – European Commission  Maria Kozlak – MSCA fellow, Institut Curie in Paris; Marie-Agnès Bernardis – Chargée de mission Universcience/site Cité des sciences – Hypatia project; Marta Cayetano – Communication Officer. HEIRRI project; Xoana Troncoso – Former MSCA fellow, European Affairs Officer at Service Recherche Partenariale et Propriété Intellectuelle -SR2PI, École Polytechnique, Paris

POSTERS ALIVE! – Room Miró I

Enjoy a coffee while perusing posters that showcase innovative projects within education!

Alain Sarkissian – Edu-Artic: EDU-ARTIC project explored; Adrienn Pap and Àgueda Gras Velázquez – Scientix: The 2018 STEM Discovery Week; Frédérique Carcaillet – Université de Montpellier, France: when researchers, students and pupils communicate science with stop-motion animation movies; Gul Karaevli – Korkmaz Yigit Anatolian High School, Turkey – COMPASS project: Creating Online Materials & Products At STEM Subjects;  Josep Carreras – Xplore Health: Xplore Health, bridging the gap between RRI and STEM education; Hatice Kirmaci – Korkmaz Yigit Anatolian High School, Turkey-ART: the innovative way of reaching science; Lina Alexandra Gómez – University of Antioquia, Colombia: Strategies for the generation of scientific vocations in basic and secondary students in Medellin-Colombia Marie-Agnès Bernardis – Hypatia: Make science education more gender inclusive; Marta Cayetano – HEIRRI: HEIRRI project, teaching and learning Responsible Research and Innovation; Pierre Echard – Jet Propulsion Theatre: Sparking the love for science through theatre

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Stand-Up Comedy to laugh with science – The Big Van Science (in Spanish) Room Miró II

What does not kill us can only make us stronger! Science Busking, an insiders’ guide to taking science out onto the streets – Science Made Simple (in English) Room II

Improvise your science! – Groupe TRACES (in French) Room Miró III

Teacher training interactive workshop. Perform: bringing philosophy and performance into your science classroom University of Bristol (in English) Room III

Your voices. Starting from the workshop experience joined in the morning the participants will share their thoughts on how to develop performances that include the values of Responsible Research and Innovation and embed the human dimension of Science and Technology processes.

How to set up the PERFORM experiences in your classroom?

Casimiro Vizzini, UNESCO and Isabel Ruiz Mallén, Open University of Catalonia – UOC