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PAERI conference heading to Switzerland
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BY MATHIEU ISIDRO (SKAO, PAERI WORKING GROUP CHAIR)
The fifth edition of the Public Awareness and Engagement with Research Infrastructures conference, or PAERI for short, will be hosted by SKACH, the Swiss consortium for the SKAO, near Lausanne in Switzerland from 27-29 November 2024.
Centred around the theme “science communication across borders”, the conference will bring together science communication practitioners from across European research facilities and beyond to discuss ways to communicate science across borders both physical and virtual – whether this might be language, education, technology, geography, demographics, and more.
Egyptian physicist Dr Gihan Kamel will deliver the keynote address, speaking about her career and science communication and diplomacy in the Middle East through the SESAME project (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East).
Hosted by SKACH at Le Cube, a brand-new modern cultural event space in Morges, just outside Lausanne, the PAERI’24 hybrid conference will see two days of talks and workshops on the public communication activities of research infrastructures, followed by a visit to CERN, where a new science engagement centre has just been inaugurated. The previous edition was held at the SKAO Global Headquarters in July 2022.
