There are two ways to get involved in live events: start your own, or join someone else's. There are benefits and costs to each approach.
If you are interested in starting a new stand-alone science event initiative, you'll find many friendly and inspiring colleagues here at science.events, including with the associated Science Festival Alliance.
If, on the other hand, you are interested in adding a science experience of some kind to an existing event, Science In Vivo may be for you.
Science In Vivo’s open Call for Participation is for teams that would like to add a science layer to an existing cultural event or community gathering before May 31, 2025.
We hope this Call is answered by both teams with science-related missions, and teams that already run community events but have little or no experience working with science. So whether you're comfortable in the halls of academia, on the sidewalks of Main Street, or somewhere in between, we're calling you!
Specifically, Science In Vivo supports “situated engagement,” activity that integrates into the social setting and cultural context of an event. This tends to be different than setting up educational activities at a table or booth. For more on what this can mean and look like, please spend some time at www.situatedengagement.org.
The current Call for Participation closes on 8/1/24 and is only open to action taking place in the US and Canada.
Every team completing the Call for Participation form by 8/1/24 will be invited to join the project. You will gain free access to the project’s resources and supportive network. Accessing those resources and network will require becoming a member at science.events (a straightforward and free process).
A limited number of teams will be selected as Demonstration Sites, and notified by 9/6/24. Demonstration Sites will join a cohort led by an experienced captain. Between Labor Day, 2024 and Memorial Day, 2025 the project will be developing supportive resources to share broadly, and will do this by designing resources that directly serve the needs of the Demonstration Sites. So Demonstration Sites will receive customized support, individualized attention, and the chance to showcase their work to a professional audience. Participating as a Demonstration Site will require a greater commitment of time, so Demonstration Sites will also receive $2,000.
The main criteria for selecting Demonstration Sites will be the potential they have to serve as a basis for the project's goal of producing helpful resources related to situated engagement. We hope to have a roughly equal number of community-oriented and science-related organizations selected as Demonstration Sites.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!
