Beautiful Science is a new British Council initiative – linking science, education and the arts – which ultimately seeks 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.

Beautiful Science regional project is implemented in 9 countries in South East Europe region: Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Israel, Romania, Serbia and Turkey and the UK.

It involves 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.

Beautiful Science started in Cheltenham UK with a workshop for the 9 South-East European countries representatives and UK partners for preparing the fist events under the national FameLab competition.

For further information on Beautiful Science project in Romania contact Gabriel Ivan, Education & Science Projects Manager, at gabriel.ivan@britishcouncil.ro or subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter - InBrief, the Science section, and you will receive the latest news.

Scientists can be stars

Victor Popescu, winner of FameLab competition in Romania attended the Science Festival in Cheltenham UK on 4 – 8 June as one of the 10 finalists of the first ever international Famelab competition.

Read about FameLab 2008 winners in Romania and their topics presented in the final in this section of our project.

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

Teachers of physics are invited to use the electronic version of Visualise Edu Pack starting with September 2008!