Beautiful Science - Science - Society - British Council Bulgaria

	Beautiful Science

Beautiful Science was an exciting, 3-year British Council initiative (2006-2009)– linking science, education and the arts – which ultimately sought to inspire young people to consider a career in science and encourage young scientists to communicate with the wider public, in an open, comprehensive, inspired and interactive way. The Beautiful Science Regional Project was implemented in 9 countries in South East Europe region: Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Israel, Romania, Serbia and Turkey and the UK.

It involved a programme of activities designed to develop partnerships between UK and regional science communicators to share best practice and encourage professional development by engaging UK creativity.

One of the elements of Beautiful Science - the international Famelab competition - continues beyond the official end of the project (March 2010).

For further information contact Lyubov Kostova, Head Projects & Partnerships, at lyubov.kostova@britishcouncil.bg.

The project had three components:

famelab competition

Do you want to become the new face of science in your country? Do you want to be part of a regional network of science communicators? Do you want to develop your skills as communicators? Come to FameLab, the international competition for people working in science running now across Europe, Asia and Africa, and in the UK.

'visualise' science

Innovative use of arts to bring science closer to young people through a theatre show by the UK company Science Made Simple.

a series of public debates

Conversations on science and social/citizenship issues taking place in participating countries.