Observa has just concluded a survey in five European countries (Italy, Germany, UK, Norway and Portugal) on the most common technology objects: what are the most widespread and what are those that people consider indispensable in five areas of daily life (entertainment, communication, home and health). The four leading devices for Europeans are: in the…
Today, the increasing intersection between leisure and learning time both in tourism and at school, has widened the are of museum functions, that now range from cultural promotion to the integration of educational activities. In this new scenario, however, efficient tools are needed to analyse the impact of what is offered by museums, going beyond…
A first attempt to analyse, by way of a field study, the expectations people have when visiting museums, and particularly with what benefits they go out afterwards in terms of learning, of stimulus to visit other museums or inform themselves through other sources and of changed attitudes towards science, art and history. Contributions by Massimiano…
Project Inside the Big Black Box (IN3B), Analysis and evaluation of the impact on visitors of public visits programme to the main particle physics laboratories in Europe. IN3B project studied the visitor programmes at European research centres for physics in Germany, Greece, France/Switzerland and Italy. The project started from the consideration that a great number…
The most cautiously positive appraisal is related to health. Italians regard the main usefulness of genetic testing as the identification of genetic predispositions towards certain illnesses, associated with lower risk and greater acceptability on a moral level. However, while genetically altering animals to create organs for human transplant is thought useful and morally acceptable by…
Project PARADYS “Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning – the Case of Biotechnology. Images of Self and Others in Decision-Making Procedures”, in partnership with Poster, Vicenza. The European Union has prepared a three-year programme related to public participation by citizens in the debate and decisions related to the release of genetically modified organisms for…