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After obtaining a PhD in neuroscience, Élodie started out as a researcher. In 2017 decided to channel her knowledge and energy into bringing science to the general public. She is Pint of Science’s International Director.
Pint of Science is an annual science festival held in bars and cafés in lots of countries simultaneously, where researchers and scientists talk about their work and research in an informal setting with regular people who have no specialist science knowledge. Last year’s festival had around 3,000 events in almost 400 cities in 24 countries, with about 140,000 attendees around the world.
Yes, there are six different themes during the festival:
In 2017 I was invited to visit one of the sites where Ariane 5 is built and I met the teams there. I talked about Pint of Science and we realized we had a common goal: to share our enthusiasm for the amazing science work that is going on as widely as possible, reaching people really outside the scientific and technological community. That’s how our partnership started.
With the COVID 19 crisis, we can’t do our usual thing of having gatherings in bars. So this year we will be holding a festival of live on-line events from 7 to 9 September.
This year we are going to make it as fun as possible. There will be prizes to won in competitions in France and Germany and naturally we’ll have ArianeGroup specialists talking about rocket science and all things spacey!
You can follow our international @pintsworld account on Twitter and Facebook. For ArianeGroup talks in Germany go to @pintofscienceDE and in France @pintofscienceFR. Keep up-to-date by following social networks where you’ll find all info.
After the 2020 on-line festival we’ll start organizing #pint21. And with everything we’ve learned this year, we will be sure to add a social media dimension to our future festivals!