The Athens Science Festival (ASF) that will take place at the City of Athens Technopolis Centre in Gazi on April 5-10 opens its doors to the public on Tuesday afternoon, for the third consecutive year. The five-day festival will feature talks, contests, performances, science theatre, exhibitions and documentaries, as well as giving visitors an opportunity to take part in workshops, labs, educational activities and educational games.
Among the topics to be explored in the 2016 ASF are life and matter, the making of ‘smart’ machines, the human brain, fighting disease, new materials with ‘magical’ properties, climate change and many others.
Svante Pääbo, Director of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany will give the opening talk on Tuesday evening on the topic “Your Internal Neanderthal”, followed by the MIT’s Michalis Bletsas speaking about “Internet Connectivity.”
Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet ‘Troopy’ – a humanoid robot built by high school student Dimitris Hatzis from Kavala in northern Greece – and a chance to learn more about 3D printing and its uses, such as for building a robot arm.
Entrance to the ASF is free of charge but talks by some of the speakers may need tickets. The full programme is available at the website http://www.athens-science-festival.gr.
The ASF is organised by the educational organisation SciCo, the British Council, the Onassis Foundation Scholars Association, the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and the Technopolis Centre, while it is supported by Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation – EPAnEK and the EU’s 2014-2020 National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) and a host of research and academic institutions.
Source: ANA-MPA
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