All data and information to understand the gender relations in the world of national and international research. The volume is organized in collaboration with FAiR, under the patronage of UNESCO Venice Office. Contact directly Observa to receive the volume.
It will be published the tenth edition of “Science in Society Facts and Figures. Ten Years of Science in Society ‘, edited by M. Bucchi and B. Saracino (240 pp., il Mulino). The book will be presented in Torino, on February 17th, with the participation of Helga Nowotny, the president of the European Research Council…
If we ask a European citizen to list the main issues of a hypothetical EU policy agenda, for sure we would not find the soil (1). Public opinion still does not recognize the soil as a natural resource that is over-exploited by human being, as it is for freshwater or forests, although for many years…
A video made by Observa with university students within the IRIS project. Link 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRYN1MU7Mg Link 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm-gNLe2CDY
The intermodal container as used on container ships 1955. Invented by North Carolina trucker Malcolm McLean. This became indispensable for global capitalism. Scratching invented by Grand Wizard Theodore in 1977. Famous story is his mom burst into his bedroom in the Bronx asking him to turn down the music and he stopped the record with…
Friday, 15th November 2013 the Observa team will attend tthe European Open-Space-Conference for the INPROFOOD Project at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. This conference will be based on the Open-Space-Technology-Method, with the insight that mutual learning is best done with some structure, but with as much freedom as possible.…
L’importanza di comunicare la scienza con stile, Lectio Magistralis by M. Bucchi at the Festival della Scienza of Genova, 1 November, 3.00 p.m. Galata Museo del Mare Auditorium Calata De Mari, 1 http://www.festivalscienza.it/site/home/programma/giorno-per-giorno/1-novembre/limportanza-di-comunicare-la-scienza-con-.html
