Via Coroglio 104 - 80124
Naples
Italy
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
It is now more urgent than ever to build a new type of scientific citizenship, in order to bridge the gap between the scientific world and society at large and to ensure a greater engagement in science and technology governance.
Fondazione IDIS-Città della Scienza has operated in Naples since 1987 in the dissemination of scientific knowledge and technological innovation throughout the South of Italy.
Born as the organisation that promoted and set up the City of Science complex in Naples, it is now an operating foundation with a flexible, agile structure. Its primary mission is to guarantee public participation and involvement in social issues through science communication.
Below, the principal ongoing activities:
• NanoDialogue – Enhancing Dialogue on Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences in Society at the European Level, FP6-NMP project coordinated by Fondazione IDIS.
• CIPAST - Citizens participation in science and society, FP6-S&S
• ECD-European citizens Deliberation on Brain Science, FP6-S&S
• DECIDE-Deliberative Citizens’ Debate in science centres and museums, FP6-S&S
• PENCIL- Permanent European Resource Centre for Informal Learning, FP6-S&S
• Evolution, Tracing the odyssey of life, FP6-S&S
• Bio e-learning, new labs and teachers activities on Life sciences.
• Euro-Mediterranean and Black Sea Observatory, creating a network of International cooperation among institutional, political, cultural and scientific organisations.