MARIANO GAGO ECSITE AWARDS 2021 EDITION Mariano Gago Ecsite Awards: towards excellence in science engagement MARIANO GAGO ECSITE AWARDS 2021 EDITION 2021 AWARDS The ‘Responsible and Responsive’ Award is new for 2021 and aims to recognise institutions not only for their resilience, but for original, creative ideas that have had positive impact for communities at a time of crisis. THE SPIRIT THE JURY The ‘Beacon of the Year’ Award celebrates inspirational individuals who have been contributing to our field and Created in 2015, the Mariano Gago Ecsite Awards Chaired by Museum of London Director Sharon to the Ecsite network. The Award recognises innovative encourage creative and impactful work in science Ament, it brings together prominent and independent visionaries who are empowering and motivating their engagement. professionals from adjoining fields. peers to reach a common goal: emboldening citizens to engage with science. Open to all Ecsite members, they provide an incentive and reward whose prestige contributes to the development of excellence in our field. THE PRIZE APPLICATION DEADLINES The 2021 Awards ceremony will be taking place on 4 November 2021, during a special presentation at the 30 June - Responsible and Responsive Award peer- A TRIBUTE TO MARIANO GAGO Directors Forum in Manchester, United Kingdom. nominations José Mariano Gago (1948 - 2015) was a key figure of 30 July - Responsible and Responsive Award self- European science engagement. He was a founder of the The winners receive will receive a trophy and a certificate and the Beacon of the Year will receive an amount of nominations & Beacon of the Year award peer- Portuguese Ciência Viva network of science centres and nominations an active contributor to Ecsite activities over the years. €2,500. All details of the application process are on the Ecsite website. Questions? Helen Wilks [email protected] +32 473 33 49 87 MARIANO GAGO ECSITE AWARDS 2021 EDITION 2020 WINNERS 2019 WINNERS 2017 WINNING PROJECTS Maya Halevy, Director at The Bloomfield Science Barbara Streicher, Executive Manager at Science Center Dialogue Social Enterprise, Hamburg (Germany) won Museum, Jerusalem (Israel) won the Beacon of the Year Netzwerk, Vienna (Austria) won the Beacon of the Year the ‘Sustainable Success’ Award for its Dialogue in the Award for personal embodiment of and commitment Award for personal embodiment of our network’s values. Dark exhibition concept, a long-standing success story to our network’s values. She has initiated strategic The Jury was unanimous: "Barbara demonstrates a with remarkable reach and an original business model, programmes with the Jerusalem Municipality and with real commitment to openness and diversity. Her work true to our field’s values of inclusion and diversity. the Ministry of Education to develop infrastructure for stands out and is recognised by her peers as being science education as well as having been involved with a courageous and inspirational, a remarkable person doing TRACES – Espace des Sciences Pierre-Gilles De national initiative that works closely with the Ministry of remarkable work to move our sector forward". Gennes, Paris (France) won the ‘Smart and Simple’ Education, that seeks to put Israel among the top fifteen Award for the Frugal Science exhibition, a smart, countries in the world for STEM education. SciCo, Athens (Greece) won in the Sustainable Success cost-effective project that proposes a new take on both category for STEMpowering Youth - a STEM educational exhibition making and tinkering. In 2020 there were two winners of the Sustainable programme which brings together young students Success Award: and educators from remote areas of Greece in order to work together out of school, come up with their Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw (Poland) for their own innovative ideas and develop them into real-life Young Explorers Clubs - a project whose objective projects that solve local community problems. The jury 2016 WINNING PROJECTS is to enable children and young adults to develop applauded "the accessibility and shareability of the collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving programme, making it an open and inspirational tool to In 2016 the Strategic Partnership Award recognised skills by getting to know the world better through hands- engage and empower young people in underprivileged extraordinary collaborative work between an Ecsite on scientific experiments. communities worldwide". member and an external partner to achieve goals neither of them could have reached by themselves alone. IMAGINARY, Berlin (Germany), a non-profit organisation Tekniska Museet, Stockholm (Sweden) won for its who promote and focus on celebrating mathematics partnership undertaken with artist Håkan Lidbo on the and on engaging the general public to experience and interactive exhibit Make Music with Your Whole Body, play with current research of mathematics with their co-created with children and taking into account the project IMAGINARY exhibition. 2018 WINNING PROJECTS needs of physically impaired visitors. The Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen (Denmark) won in the ‘Sustainable Success’ category for Made in Space, an inclusive and engaging exhibition about astrophysics. 2015 WINNING PROJECT Exploratório – Ciência Viva Science Centre of Coimbra, In 2015 the first Ecsite Award was dedicated to Coimbra (Portugal) won in the ‘Smart and Simple’ creativity. The Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo (Norway) category for Astronomy for Babies, a fulldome movie for was the winner for TING, a participatory and immersive babies and their family. exhibition experience exploring the complex relationships between technology and democracy. MARIANO GAGO ECSITE AWARDS 2021 EDITION “Winning the prize brought local, national SUPPORT and international recognition. We have been Warm thanks to the Laboratory of Instrumentation and invited to several meetings and congresses, Experimental Physics (LIP), founded by José Mariano as far as Daejeon in South Korea.” Gago, which made a donation towards the awards. Jan Alfred Andersson LIP is the Portuguese Laboratory for experimental Head of Science Centre, Norsk Teknisk Museum Particle and Astroparticle Physics and develops its R&D Winner of the 2015 Mariano Gago Ecsite Award activities mainly in the framework of experiments at CERN, ESA and in other international scientific facilities such as GSI, SNOLAB, SURF(LUX) and the Pierre Auger “Winning the Mariano Gago Ecsite Award Observatory. LIP activities include the development of has been a highly valuable recognition new Instruments and Methods, advanced Computing, for everyone working with and at the Museum. advanced education and outreach. A sign of innovation and creativity that we have used in all our communications throughout the year.” Peter Skogh, Director, Tekniska Museet "In a few decades Mariano Gago was able to build Winner of the 2016 Mariano Gago Ecsite Award a modern scientific community deeply rooted in Portuguese society, implementing his vision that science is source of both technical and human progress." “Winning the prize demonstrated the Mário Pimenta, LIP President credibility of our approach to funders and allowed us to secure funding to take the project to new places and audiences.” Matteo Merzagora, Director, TRACES Winner of the 2017 Mariano Gago Ecsite Award “If we want to cultivate fact-based critical thinking as a much needed contribution to our democratic society, we need to start in our own organisations.” Barbara Streicher, Executive Manager, Science Center Netzwerk Winner of the 2019 Mariano Gago Ecsite Award MARIANO GAGO ECSITE AWARDS 2021 EDITION 40 60,000+ 300+ MILLION VISITORS A YEAR TO YEARLY UNIQUE VISITORS ON OUR MEMBERS MEMBER SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT WEBSITE ORGANISATIONS 2,200+ 5,500+ TWITTER FOLLOWERS PROFESSIONALS RECEIVING SPOKES - ECSITE’S MAGAZINE 1,200+ We are CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS the Ecsite network 59 REPRESENTED COUNTRIES 89/7 AVENUE LOUISE LOUIZALAAN B-1050 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM T +32 (0)2 649 73 83 F +32 (0)2 647 50 98 [email protected] WWW.ECSITE.EU.