SSUCHY STORY TOLD AT THE EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS NIGHT

Each year, the European Researchers’ Night, a popular science event, is organized in several French and European cities. 2018 hosted the 14th edition, under the theme “1001 stories”.

On September 28, the University of Franche-Comté organized its European Researchers’ Night in Besançon, which was an opportunity for 2,550 visitors to discover science stories proposed by the Franche-Comté’s laboratories and also to discover SSUCHY project, presented at the event.

The goals of the European Researchers Night are:

• Attract a public that is not familiar with science by means of our offer of an exciting event
• Ensure that the public spends a long time at the event (more than two and a half hours) to truly interact with the researchers
• Sharing “science in the making”: what are the questions, the procedures, the alliances, the successes and the difficulties?
• Involve members of the public and awaken the desire to develop and maintain a connection with research before and after the event

2018, a rich program:

• Stage Designs (Scenography)
  Interactive presentations and special atmospheres have been be created in order to facilitate the encounter between the public and the researchers. The idea was to provide immersion into the researchers’ world and highlight its attractiveness.
• Speed-searching
  This was a variation on speed-dating where members of the general public met researchers instead of bachelors. Every 8 minutes, the public switched to another researcher.
• Meetings in the Dark
  The public entered a totally black room. A researcher talked about his/her work, without being seen, for 20 minutes. The intimacy created by the darkness was favourable to straightforward exchanges.
• Choose Your Own Adventure
  A playful narrative concept in which the public was the hero. Visitors discovered and connected with a research story and faced certain choices they had to make. These choices influenced the unfolding and the end of the story.
• Tell Me a Tale of Research
  Research workers brought together with storytellers and actors.

It is among this rich program that SSUCHY project has been presented in a fun way to an amateur audience.

More information: https://nuitdeschercheurs-france.eu/wakka.php?wiki=WelCome