Scientific outreach to reduce the gap between society and the marine science research

Abstract

The reasearch community has the responsibility to shering knowledge about environmental concern and technological innovations with the aim to increase the awarness in people about the protection of the environment and the human specie. The Laboratorio per le Tecnologie Marine di Porto Venere starting the outreach activity in 2010 with the aim to disseminate toward schools and general public the marine environmet value, the great problems that affecting it and the activities that the research community take every day to face these topics [Merlino et al., 2014]. Researchers use a lot of outreach instruments to reach the same objective: capture people interest! One of the best way is to involve society in a active paths, stimulating them emotions and personal thinks. In detail, during the years were been organized: didactical laboratories, workshops, conferences, dissemination events, work related learning projects, citizen sciences projects, educational games (Fig. 1) [Locritani et al., 2017], documentaries, … In the last year the collaboration with the Unità Funzionale Sistemi Integrati per le Infrastrutture Ambientali Marine (INGV) and with the Laboratorio di Divulgazione Scientifica e Attività Museali (INGV) in the framework of ENVRIplus Project (H2020 n. 654182), allowed us to enlarge the audience to the european context. Our role in the project was been to implement an e-learning platform (Fig. 2) to teachers [D’Addezio, 2018a] and students and to implement the contents of a multimedial educational game (ENVRgame). Moreover, specific questionnaires was been implemented and used to avaluate, during the years and different projects [Locritani et al., 2019; D’Addezio et al., 2018b, Locritani et al., 2015], the effect of the outreach events in the involving people or students. Some results highligh that younger students are are most receptive then the older ones.