THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL GOTHENBURG

With hundreds of activities and on avreage 60,000 visits every year The International Science Festival in Gothenburg is one of Europe’s leading popular science events and the only one of its kind in Sweden. The festival consists of three programs: for schools, for the general public and two conferences one for teachers and one focused on science communication.

This year the festival will take place during autumn, 28 September-4 October. Due to the current situation the festival will be a digital event. The digital festival will be available during the week of the festival.

Most of our program is in Swedish, but we do offer some activities in English. Free admission to all lectures. You do not need to register – just show up at our digital festival arena.

You are welcome to an evening where we will expand our minds and thoughts about the world as we see it when we open the 24^th International Science festival in Gothenburg. Headlining is the former head of Santa Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West, a pioneer in the field of complexity science. What is the perfect formula for scaling up, and moving forward in a sustainable way? Why do some thrive, and why do some fail?

He will be joined by Charlotta Mellander, Professor in Economics, Jönköping International Business School. Expert on cities, creativity and regional development. She works closely together with Professor Richard Florida, the scholar behind the creative class theories and Robin Teigland, Professor of Management of Digitalization, Chalmers. More details here.

The Science Festival aims to communicate science to schools and the general public in an easily accessible and stimulating way, as well as providing a meeting place for the research community. The goal is to promote a positive attitude to science and research, and to encourage higher study.

We provide a broad programme that gives researchers and experts from widely differing disciplines the opportunity to meet the public and school children in traditional and alternative settings and under varying forms.

During the festival you will find everything from workshops, lectures, private shows, music, theatre, debates, exhibitions and seminars to meetings of researchers. The content spans all disciplines, from social science and the humanities to natural science and technology.

The Science Festival is divided into three branches, the public programme, the school programme and the specialist programme. There is something for everyone during the festival.

The Science Festival constantly strives to find new ways to communicate science. We aim to reach groups that are not familiar with research. We collaborate with embassies and cultural organizations to showcase the cutting edge of international research as well as to exchange ideas and concepts about how to communicate science.

The Science Festival takes places in Gothenburg, Sweden. For more general information about the city, see goteborg.com

The International Science Festival in Gothenburg is one of the founder members of EUSEA – the European Science Events Association. EUSCEA is a European network of popular science events and has more than 100 member organizations from 36 countries. www.eusea.info

The International Science Festival
Göteborg & Co / Box 29 / SE-401 20 Göteborg
Phone: +46 (0)31-368 40 00 / Fax: +46 (0)31-81 10 48
E-mail: vetenskapsfestivalen@goteborg.com

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