European Researchers‘ Night 2024

The event

Friday 27 September is the return of the European Researchers‘ Night 2024, the event promoted as part of Frascati Scienza’s LEAF – heaL thE plAnet’s Future – project: at Explora two free-entrance sessions at 5pm and 7pm, for Scientific Experiences on Nature.

The event at the museum involves researchers in activities and workshops that reflect informal learning and are proposed to children through observations, classifications, experiments and discoveries, underlining the importance of scientific research for biodiversity.

The event is also an opportunity to discover for the preview Genius Loci, Explora’s new space characterised by immersive proposals allowing to experience the potential of digital technology and to understand some natural phenomena. A room of the wonders of nature with stations allowing to interact with lights, shapes and colours and encouraging, through play, the protection and respect towards nature.

Activities

• My first herbarium, ages 3/5.
  Practical activity of creating a herbarium to discover how to classify and recognise plants and flowers while learning to explore and respect nature together with Botanist Francesca Ferroni.
• Nature in the round, ages 6/8.
  Discover how scientists explore and understand the natural world through interaction with tools and materials such as stones, bones and shells with Researcher Marco Massimi, Botanical Naturalist.
• Bugs: a mega-world, age 9/11.
  Discover the incredible diversity of insects and learn how scientists identify them by describing their morphological characteristics together with Researcher Dario Nania, Zoologist.

LEAF

LEAF is funded by the European Commission’s HORIZON-MSCA-2023-CITIZENS-01-01 programme, Grant Agreement number n°101161615, within the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, which evaluated the proposal submitted by Frascati Scienza together with its partners with an excellent score.
Discover all the events of the European Researchers’ Night 2024.

Your opinion is important!

Participating in LEAF also means making your opinions available so that, through the analysis of the data, we can gain insight into the entire community. To this end, we invite you to fill in simple opinion questionnaires. Completion is completely anonymous and only takes a few minutes. All the information you provide will help the Association and the European Commission to evaluate our work, find out what the public thinks about the objectives of the event and provide input for the next edition.

Please fill in the questionnaire (italian language) before attending the Night. di partecipare alla Notte.