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PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH RESEARCH AWARD

Tips on engaging the public with research (videos)
29-10-2020 | © istockphotos.com
The dancing particles
15-09-2020 | © Heïdi Marier
ERC grantee Konstantinos Nikolopoulos at the University of Birmingham recently won the first ERC Public Engagement with Research Award in the category of public outreach. His ExclusiveHiggs project looks at the origin of mass by exploring the interactions of the elementary matter particles with the Higgs boson. In this interview, he describes his efforts to make the public understand this field of physics through art and dance.
The online world of food sharing
10-09-2020 | © Getty Images | Yesim Sahin
How can researchers successfully engage with citizens to improve their scientific outputs? To find out, we talked to ERC grantee, Anna Davies of Trinity College Dublin, the winner of the first ERC Public Engagement Award in the online and social media category. Her project set out to map urban food-sharing practices and discovered early on that they would need the help of citizen scientists. 
Busting the myths about ocean plastic
01-09-2020 | @ Aike Vonk
There is much more to marine plastic pollution than meets the eye. In his quest to set the record straight about this litter, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at Utrecht University, is garnering international interest from the public, media, schoolchildren and policymakers alike. His passion for public outreach has led him to become one of the first laureates of the ERC Public Engagement with Research Award. We interviewed him to find out more about his winning media relations strategy and the benefits public engagement has brought to his research. 
Winners of the first ERC Public Engagement with Research Award announced
07-07-2020 | © picture
Professors Anna Davies from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos from the University of Birmingham, UK, and Erik Van Sebille from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, have been awarded the ERC Public Engagement with...
New competition for ERC Public Engagement with Research Award launched
24-09-2019 | © picture
Commissioner Carlos Moedas and ERC President Jean-Pierre Bourguignon have launched today the first competition for ERC Public Engagement with Research Award. The purpose of the award is to recognise ERC grantees who make the...