SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Education and Rights - The European Researchers’ Night in Italy 2024-2025

SHARPER means SHAring Researchers passion for Education and Rights and it is the European Researchers Night and the Researchers at Schools program in 15 cities of 9 regions in Italy in 2024 and 2025.

A diverse set of public engagement actions created by a community of more than 300 stakeholders from all over Italy: researchers from universities, communicators, teachers and students, entrepreneurs, and cultural bodies.

This increasing network works together as one to build a better, desirable, and peaceful future based on shared knowledge generated jointly by researchers and citizens. The core philosophy of Sharper is inclusion and accessibility to reliable information, quality education for all.

The cities involved: Ancona, Bari, Cagliari, Camerino, Catania, Genova, LAquila, Nuoro, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Sassari, Urbino, Terni and Trieste and their territories are transformed into accessible labs where everyone, side by side with researchers, can explore complex issues summarized by the five Mission areas of the Horizon Europe program.

A multi-actor and multidisciplinary approach are the key used by communicator and researchers to engage citizens of all ages, both: those who are interested into these topics and want to know more about the role of researchers in building the future, or those who are skeptical and rarely or never get involved in cultural initiatives about research.

Students, teachers and the school community that also includes families are a central actor of Sharper that engage them in a rich and wide set of activities organized locally, nationally and internationally all year round.

From open and accessible labs to workshops and games, from talks to performances that involve students in their schools or online to meet young researchers from all over the world and discover how wide is the researchers job in terms of topics interests and skills that young generation can practice becoming responsible citizens.