What is Dublin City of Science?

Dublin has been chosen to host Europe’s largest science conference, ESOF 2012 (Euroscience Open Forum), from 11-15 July, 2012. To celebrate this prestigious, international event in Dublin, the City of Science 2012, an innovative science themed festival will run throughout the year across the island of Ireland combining the best of Irish culture, arts and science.

HIGHLIGHTS
Irish Science Blogger Humphrey Jones (The Frog Blog)

Join us at the Science Gallery!

Join us on the first Friday of every month from 6pm at Science Gallery for our Dublin City of Science meet-up tweet-ups.
If you don’t know what a tweet up is , come anyway. So many people and organisations across Dublin and Ireland have…

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Latest events

  • Particles of the Past

    This February, the National Library launches Particles of the Past – Phase Four of the interactive multimedia exhibition Discover your National Library at 2/3 Kildare St. To celebrate Dublin City of Science 2012, the exhibition will showcase a fascinating selection of science-related gems from our collections. With topics ranging from 17th century home remedies collected [...]

  • Science Hack Day Dublin

    Science Hack Day Dublin  Science Hack Day is an all-day-all-night (36 hour) event that brings scientists, engineers, computer scientists and designers together to find solutions (hacks) to real-life problems and questions during a brief but intense period of collaboration. Dublin will be the 6th city in the world to run a Science Hack Day after London, [...]

  • Arcade Science

    This July, Dublin City will be transformed into a huge living and inspirational science/art gallery space…

  • Science for All

    Throughout 2012, Dublin City’s public libraries will run a co-ordinated programme of events…

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Euroscience Open Forum Dublin 2012

The Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is Europe’s largest, general science meeting and is held in a leading Europe city every two years. Dublin was awarded the honour of hosting ESOF in 2012...

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An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, speaks with Chief Scientific Advisor Professor Patrick Cunningham about Dublin being the European Capital of Science in 2012.

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Festival highlights

  • Particles of the Past

    This February, the National Library launches Particles of the Past – Phase Four of the interactive multimedia exhibition Discover your National Library at 2/3 Kildare St. To celebrate Dublin City of Science 2012, the exhibition will showcase a fascinating selection of science-related gems from our collections. With topics ranging from 17th century home remedies collected [...]

  • Science Hack Day Dublin

    Science Hack Day Dublin  Science Hack Day is an all-day-all-night (36 hour) event that brings scientists, engineers, computer scientists and designers together to find solutions (hacks) to real-life problems and questions during a brief but intense period of collaboration. Dublin will be the 6th city in the world to run a Science Hack Day after London, [...]

  • Arcade Science

    This July, Dublin City will be transformed into a huge living and inspirational science/art gallery space…