Public Engagement

PUSHH has a formal vision for communication and public engagement, which sets out the practical steps the project will take to ensure that engagement is embedded in the network and in the mind-set of the next generation of researchers. PUSHH will:

  • Inform public groups about its work.

  • Support its partners and users with its expertise.

  • Enthuse the next generation to want to take part in research and learning.

  • Encourage partners and other stakeholders to contribute their research and knowledge to its activities.

  • Take part in national, European and global dialogue about the direction of its research.

  • Create knowledge in collaboration with its partners and other stakeholder groups.

The network’s primary audiences will be non-academic users of research and the public.

Public outreach

PUSHH ESR's will engage with the public in each of the collaborating cities. These events will contribute to PUSHH's objectives of showing how outcomes of the project is relevant to people's lives by creating jobs, training skilled researchers and introducing novel technologies. They will aim to improve and enthuse the public's understanding of and interest in palaeoproteomics, palaeoanthropology, palaeontology and archaeology in a manner that is understandable for non-specialists. The events will aim to inspire the next generations toward the embrace evidence-based knowledge advancement in their everyday life or in their future professional career as scientists.

Events will include:

  • Museum Night and Wine and Science at the Natural History Museum of Denmark

  • laboratory activities for high schools and evening lectures for locals, as well as contributing to the FACTS festival in Bordeaux

  • participation in Science Week, International Day of Museums and Science Cafés in Barcelona

  • participation in The York Festival of Ideas, Manchester Science Festival and Leeds Festival of Science in England

  • contribution to exhibitions and activities for children and high school students at the Natural History Museum of Florence

  • development of exhibitions and learning-by-playing activities for children at the Deutsches Museum in Munich


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