Known previously as the South East Science Festival, it is now being branded as the Robert Boyle Science Festival, in honour of Waterford-born Robert Boyle. The festival has been taking place for over 10 years and has brought science events to tens of thousands of school pupils, families and the general public. Over 50 events take place throughout the week bringing international and national presenters to provide fun science events, presentations, workshops, serious science discussions and debates for adult audiences. 

This festival is coordinated by Calmast, Waterford Institute of Technology’s award winning STEM outreach centre.

Visit www.ScienceWeek.ie for information.

Exhibition created by Tom Meskell, with additional design elements by Blacklight. 

The Interactive Building
Father Burke Rd (Beside Kashmir Restaurant) Galway Co Galway

Baboró: Key to providing access to quality creative activity for children to Galway and beyond
Environment:  Key to life, from cars to buildings, trees to oceans, we are interdependent
Arts: Key to making sense of the world around us, and developing the whole person
Science: Key to understanding life, and interacting with our world
Technology: Keys to research and communication

These Five Keys formed a unique platform for Baboró to work with Scientists and Artists, Children and Teachers. We explored the other Four Keys with 8 Scientists, 8 Artists, 8 Teachers and over 200 Children over 10 weeks in Spring 2012, by hosting 40 workshops in Science and the Arts.

This is BEAST! Phase 2 The Exhibition and the result of the pilot engagement, carried out with key support from NUI Galway, the Martin Ryan Instititute and Dublin City of Science 2012. Come and explore an exhibition that demonstrates the power of Science and the Arts, the creative keys to our future. Explore Energy Harvesting, experiment with Seaweed, and enjoy hands on Workshops with Artists and Scientists.

BEAST! demonstrates something new and innovative that may change the way Science, Art and IT are taught – through responsible citizenship and arts engagement.
Una Shannon, Scoil Iognáid, Galway

Free Event – Ticketing and more info here

The Interactive Building
Father Burke Rd (Beside Kashmir Restaurant) Galway Co Galway

Contact: Mary Colclough, colcloum@tcd.ie

Nanoweek is a national initiative, comprising a week-long programme of activities designed to promote nanoscience and nanotechnology in Ireland.

Nanoweek 2012 will open on Friday 14th September with Science Gallery’s “Magical Materials” exhibition. Run in collaboration with CRANN, this exhibition will feature an exhibition of innovative materials and interactive areas where visitors can explore materials further, e.g. ferrofluids, quantum dots, remote access to CRANN’s SEM.

The academic/industrial conference for Nanoweek 2012 is entitled “Nanoscience Excellence with Impact” and will take place in Trinity College Dublin’s Science Gallery from Monday 17th – Tuesday 18th September.

The winner of the RDS/ Intel Prize Lecture for Nanoscience 2012 will be announced during Nanoweek.

Nanoweek is an initiative of NanoNet Ireland, a network bringing together the key stakeholders in developing nanoscience and nanotechnology in Ireland – government, academia and industry.  NanoNet Ireland is a non-profit network currently combining two major nano-related consortia, INSPIRE and CCAN.

The Festival includes the screening of 32 of the best television and New Media productions involving science from across Europe, and two keynote talks and panel-led discussions. There are prizes for productions in three TV genres – Documentary, Drama and General Programmes  – and a New Media category. Four further prizes reflect science in society issues;  the environment, women in science, a young jury award and the choice of the theatre audience. So everyone visiting the festival can participate. And free coffee and biscuits are provided in the intervals.

Key issues in presenting science on television and new media will surface via the two talks and discussion sessions. On 13 July, the theme is “Making the Invisible Visible”, where particle physics, the environment and drama will be the topics. The keynote speaker is the producer of the BBC documentary  “the Hunt for the Higgs Boson”, the ultimate in communicating about the invisible. Environmental issues are also often not visible and present one of the key communication issues. Another communication option is via drama. Encouraging largely arts based TV drama people to take on board science themes is at the heart of a successful German project.

The second session on 14 July addresses the ever changing scene in New Media. The keynote speaker is the Director of the European Science Foundation, and the panel represent three very different projects. A state of the art IPad application of a broadcast documentary from the Netherlands illustrates the potential of this medium. A leading member of a Dublin based production company will describe their latest interactive drama and social media applications. And reflecting the cross-cultural nature of the festival, we’ll hear from a scientist at Trinity College on how she uses audio-visual new media to further her research.

Link for more info:  http://europaws.org/festival/

List of events:

Silk Worm Summer Club

Handling Objects

Arts and Science talks

The tale of the Bamboo Cutter

For further information contact: educationservices@cbl.ie

Interactivos?’12 Dublin will move citizen science out of the garage/prototype stage and onto the street. Over 17 days, participants will collectively develop creative interventions and responses in relation to themes complementary to Science Gallery’s IDEALAB, including open data services, wellbeing and crowdsourcing public data.

For further information see: http://sciencegallery.com/

Contact details: info@sciencegallery.com / 01-896-4091

A few events are going to take place this summer in Dún Laoghaire:

Guided tour of  The Tara vessel

Exhibition, Tara Oceans, A Worldwide Portrait of Marine Plankton

Exhibition, From Pole to Pole

Exhibition, Remote Coral Reefs- Tara Oceans

Exhibition, 2000 leagues under the sea

Conference, Tara Oceans : a worldwide journey portraying marine plankton

For further information do not hesitate to contact Annaïk, a.genson@ambafrance-ie.org

Core partners:

Tara Oceans Expedition

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company

National Maritime Museum of Ireland – Dún Laoghaire

Embassy of France in Ireland

UCD Imagine Science Film Festival

Associate partners:

Comhairle na nÓg

Fáilte Ireland

Newpark Comprehensive School

Institut Français

Alliance Française

Dún Laoghaire BRAND project

Science Foundation Ireland

University College Dublin

Linked partners:

ISAF Youth World Sailing Championships 2012

PhotoIreland Festival 2012

Dublin, City of Science 2012

UCD Imagine Science Film Festival will host an exciting programme of events and screenings at  dynamic locations throughout the city. We will draw the cinema going public into a participative experience, where debates, Q&A sessions and post-screening events will energise our audience. Join us if you are eager to explore science from a new perspective. Thursday 5th – Saturday 14th July 2012

See List of Events below OR visit Programe/Event Schedule for free and ticketed events.

Fermat’s Room

Science for Nanon – Parent & Children Screening

Higgs into the heart of imagination

Avant-Garde Science with Nieto & betav#03

Controlled Experiments

Imagine Consciousness

Members Screening – Solaris

INSIDE-OUT Film Programme and Discussion

Semiconductor Films

Avant-Garde Science

The Race for the Double Helix – Life Story, James Watson

Maths, Apples and Alan Turing

Bad Robots

Sci-Lens Yurodny Ensemble

Science Expression Film Competition

Imagine Consciousness – Empathy

Planet Ocean

Science Cinema Tour

For further info contact: imaginesciencefilms@ucd.ie

Sci-fi hands-on workshops: participants will explore sci-fi and create their own pop-ups around sci-fi scenes.

Sci-fi gadgets: model making of sci-fi gadgets: How do they work? What do they do? Creating own gadgets.

Link for more info: http://www.ifi.ie/