With 31 000 visitors, including 15 000 school children, 550 participating scientists and communicators and five locations, it is safe to say that Festival Nauke is the largest science festival in the east of Europe. Festival Nauke was held for the seventh year from 5-8 December in Belgrade, Serbia with a very clear goal: to present, explain and promote science in a way which is understandable to everyone, regardless of age and education. And EU Universe Awareness was there!
The festival was spread out across the capital of Serbia, at five locations at once. It had a very diverse and full program, containing lots of non-stops science activities, experiments, shows, exhibitions, workshops and there was even a special part of the festival dedicated to connecting science with art and entertainment. People came from the all over Serbia to take part in the annual event. On Thursday and Friday the locations were mainly filled with primary school classes, and on the weekend hundreds of parents brought their children to learn and have fun.
Out of the 550 participating scientists and communicators there were several international groups. Science communicators and young scientists from different organisations across Europe gathered in Serbia to present science from their field in an exciting and inspiring way to the young and old.
EU Universe Awareness was one of the international participants, invited to the event to inspire participants with our wonderful Cosmos. Located at the former Eursalon, EU UNAWE presented the wonderful world of astronomy in a few activities, using the Universe in a Box toolkit to explain many topics from the shape of the Earth for the youngest children, to the zodiac constellations for older partipants. We also inviting kids to design their own aliens and learn about deadly moons in our Solar System!
Children were amazed to learn how the Moon goes round the Earth, how this creates the different lunar phases and how day and night works amongst many other things. In just four days at the festival, EU UNAWE was able to reach over 4,000 children!
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