Cities and Science Communication: Innovate Approaches to engaging the public

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Project Name	Cities and Science Communication: Innovate Approaches to engaging the public
Abbreviation	CASC
Project Description	CASC is a project funded under the EU’s FP7 Coordination and support actions (Science in Society Priority). It aims to explore and develop innovative approaches to engaging the public in science, by bringing together partners from Europe and China who are already active in this field but working in different social, cultural, economic and political contexts.
Impact	CASC aims to assess existing methods and approaches to building a scientific culture, including their impact on specific target groups and likely transferability between countries and cultures, with the intention of devising and testing potential new ways of increasing people’s involvement with, and understanding of, science and its impact on their work and life style.
Coordinator	Birmingham City Council (BCC)
Partners	Birmingham City University (BCU) Thinktank – Birmingham’s Science Museum (TT) European Office of Cyprus (EOC) Xunta de Galicia (XG) (Galician Government) Sevilla Global (SG) Universeum AB (UAB) The Faculty of Business and Administration (FBA-UB), The University of Bucharest University of Lyon (UOL) INNOVA Észak-Alföld Regional Development and Innovation Agency Nonprofit LTD South Moravian Centre for International Mobility (JCMM) Centre of Administration and Operations of the ASCR Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Museos Científicos Coruñeses (mc2)
Programme	FP7
Duration	22 months
Budget	870,980 EUR
Website	www.eucasc.eu

Description

CASC is a project funded under the EU’s FP7 Coordination and support actions (Science in Society Priority). It aims to explore and develop innovative approaches to engaging the public in science, by bringing together partners from Europe and China who are already active in this field but working in different social, cultural, economic and political contexts.

CASC aims to assess existing methods and approaches to building a scientific culture, including their impact on specific target groups and likely transferability between countries and cultures, with the intention of devising and testing potential new ways of increasing people’s involvement with, and understanding of, science and its impact on their work and life style.