ONE-BLUE hits the European Researchers’ Night in Lisbon and Milan

ONE-BLUE hits the European Researchers’ Night in Lisbon and Milan

  • Our partners FC.ID and CNR-IRSA have showcased ONE-BLUE in their home countries showing their main goals and activities
  • The European Researchers’ Night is an initiative is the largest science outreach event in Europe.

ONE-BLUE has been showcased in Lisbon (Portugal) and Milan (Italy) framed in the European Researchers’ Night last September 27th. FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (FC.ID) and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), partners of the project, introduced their main activities and goals in ONE-BLUE, reaching a broad audience in both events.

FC.ID showcased ONE-BLUE in the Pavilhão do Conhecimento, in an event organised by Ciência Viva in the Portuguese capital. Thanks to MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, research center included in the FC.ID, ONE-BLUE had a space again with other European research projects. Bernardo Duarte and Vanessa Fonseca, researchers in MARE and representatives of FC.IDin ONE-BLUE, updated the attendees about their main project activities. On the other hand, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, assistant researcher in ONE-BLUE, and Xavier Bruchier, master’s student at the Universidade de Lisboa, who is currently developing his master’s thesis within the ONE-BLUE framework, joined our colleagues in such a special night.

Meanwhile, ONE-BLUE reached the iconic Square of the Duomo of Milan thanks to CNR-IRSA ONE-BLUE partner. Our Italian colleagues shed light on the decline of the protection of aquatic biodiversity, demonstrating the importance of the multidisciplinary approach in environmental research and management. In this case, the team had a special focus on secondary school students, as they organised activities to let them understand the impact of persistent chemical pollution on the marine trophic chain, explaining to the attendees the concept and the implications of the biomagnification of chemical pollutants. The European Researchers’ Night brings research and researchers closer to the public, attracting over 1.5 million visitors across Europe and beyond each year. Universities and research institutes across Europe open their doors and share their activities, promoting research projects across Europe and showing how researchers’ work affects our daily lives. This has been a fantastic time not to only display our word, but also to spread scientific culture and knowledge of the research professions to schools and the general public.