Register for SciFest

Uppsala University and SLU are organising SciFest at Fyrishov, Uppsala, from 9 to 11 October. The festival is well attended and has had more than 8000 visitors during its three days.

The science festival aims to stimulate curiosity and interest in science among children and young people – some of them hopefully future students at Uppsala University or SLU. It is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet people from outside academia – meetings that will give you both energy and new ideas. Maybe it will make it easier to write that application or article you are struggling with.

This is a great way for universities to contribute to society. Many research groups return to the festival year after year. They find it's a fun thing to do together.

Interactive activities

Participation builds on enthusiastic researchers and doctoral students, an interesting activity and something that will attract people to your stand. Think about how you can present your research with the help of games, experiments, quizzes, competitions or other activities where visitors can touch, smell, listen and experience. How can the visitors contribute? Maybe they can make/build something or vote on something? The SciFest team will help you develop your activity.

Support and tips

SciFest is offering a workshops on 9 and 14 May at Uppsala University Museum (Gustavianum) where you can get tips and help to design your activity. The workshops are led by Leif Hallsén and Cecilia Ödman, who work with activities at the museum.

You can also contact Anna Lundmark, SLU's representative in the SciFest project group, if you have any questions or want to discuss ideas.

Register for SciFest before 10 June at www.scifest.se/exhibitors

There you can also find more information about the workshops.