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A successful event was organised in Brussels to celebrate the
RELATE FinalConference. It took place on the 28th of January and
met around 80 attendees,
among journalists, science communicators, European media,
researchers,journalists associations, students, EC representatives
and policy makers.
RELATE - REsearch LAbs for TEaching Journalists was a two years
pro-ject, started in February 2009 and run until January 2011,
funded by the Euro-pean Commission, 7th Framework Programme (FP7),
Capacities, Science inSociety programme, under the action aiming at
supporting training activities ofjournalists and authors in the EU
Member States and the associated countriesin EC funded research
laboratories.
The objective ofRELATE is to strength the relation between
scientists andjournalists so as to improve the dissemination of
scientific topics to thegeneral audience. The project insisted
around the idea of defining a possibleway to reduce the gap between
the two main responsible to release the scien-tific information,
the scientist and the journalist, by creating a more
effectivecommunication exchange.
Science View and MusicHeaven trying to give another dimension to
both the scientific issuesand to musical pursuits. The idea of
MuSci Cafe (Music and Science Caf), is based on thesearching for
the combination and interaction that can have these two concepts
through theyears.Participants may be the general public without
specialized knowledge, who will have theopportunity to explore the
latest developments in modern and contemporary issues such
asscience in relation to the music and their interaction.
Simultaneously, scientists and experts inthose fields become
partakers of the concerns and expectations of society.The 1st
McuSci Cafe will be hosted by IANOS on April 4, 2011 at 18:00. In
an ideal place,
for the scope of the event, in the city center of Athens, 24
Stadiou str.
Bridging the gap between science and journalism
The 1st McuSci Cafe in Athens, 4 April 2011
Run across three training sessions in November 2009, March 2010
and November 2010, this initiative gave the chance to journal-ism
students and young journalists to enter in research laboratories
and spend one week alongside scientists.
RELATE involved 78 young journalists from 23 countries, writing
in 17 languages, who visited a total of 12 outstanding EUresearch
centers, with more than 30 different labs in 7 European countries.
Journalists discovered about biotechnology,chemistry, food, global
health, microbiology and genetics, photovoltaics, nanotechnology,
space and many other researchtopics.
The project offered journalists the chance not only to meet and
learn from researchers but to collect a unique content frominside
the labs and then to transform it into a written article or a video
or radio production, and finally send it out for publi-cation.
This experience gave journalists the opportunity to launch their
career as a scientific journalist but also to researchers
theoccasion to practice a communication exercise, ending in a
learning curve for everyone.Finally a number of around 80 among
articles, audio and video pieces were prepared. Over 1/4 of
participants published
their work in specialist or mainstream media, like The
Economist, Cosmos magazine, Robotics magazine, Le scienze ormajor
news websites in Eastern European Countries, like in Romania and
Lithuania and websites of national associationsof science writers,
or other online platform like New Science Journalism.
Among the research centers involved in RELATE there are EPFL -
cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne -(Switzerland), ENEA -
Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and
sustainable economic development -(Italy), TUBITAK The Scientific
and Technological Research Council of Turkey - (Turkey) with
Bilknet University in An-kara and Marmara Research Centre; Von
Karman Institute (Belgium), INRA -Institute de la Recherche
Agronomique -(France), ICFO -Institute of Photonic Sciences and
Estacin Biolgica de Doana, both in Spain, Max Planck Instituteand
European Southern Observatory, both from Germany, Universit di
Bologna and Lens Institute, from Italy, and CEMA-GREF - Linstitut
de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement
(France).
Ms. Hinano Spreafico D. F., MINERVA Consulting &
Communication Sprl. ([email protected])
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Picture 1: Participants of the RELATEFinal Conference
In this 1st Cafe the main speakers (that will give the hints in
order to start the discussion) will be:Kostas Moschos, Director of
the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA), Professor
of Music Technology at theAthens Conservatory, Professor Nicholas
Ouzounoglou, National Technical University, School of Electrical
and Computer En-gineering, Department of Information Transmission
Systems and Material Technology, Assistant Professor Christina
Anag-nostopoulou, Music Department, University of Athens, Division
of Sound, music education and Byzantine Musicology and
PeterStergiopoulos, Professor of Flute & Music / Sp. Fellow
Department of Research & Development at Ellinogermaniki
Agogi.
For more information you can visit
http://www.scienceview.gr/news/10, where you can also register for
the event.
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SCIENCE VIEW
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chance to understand timbres.But music is mathematics as well,
when it is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into
fractions.
Or is it a foreign language that uses symbols to represent ideas
and emotions? What about the semantics in musicthat makes it a
universal language that goes beyond cultures and time? Speaking
about culture, could music be thereflexion of our environment as
this one is translated into notes?
But in order to play music, the human body needs to be trained
since playing music requires coordination of fin-gers, hands, feet,
arms, lips, and an entire system of muscles to support physically
and literally the instrument.Apart from that music creation and
rehearsal demands discipline that is an inner force and control
over body andmind.Music is all these things, but most of all music
is art, allowing humans to get their insights far beyond
techniquesand musical norms. It is an art that creates emotions,
emotions are science, and man is made of emotions.All the above
issues and more are going to be examined during the MuSci Cafesthat
Science View starts in thebeginning of April and will be
implemented as a periodic event.
Menelaos Sotiriou, Secretary General, Science View
How does the brain transform sound waves striking our eardrums
into sound we
hear in our heads? What are the roots of music? Which is its
history through thecenturies? Who are its pioneers, researchers, or
other disciplines that are correlatedto?After all, music, is it a
science? Or is it just art?
First of all, music is a science since it is exact, specific,
and demands precise acous-tics, frequencies, intensities, volume
changes, melody, and harmony that help usunderstand what is going
on in the heart of the instrument even if this instrument isthe
human voice. And then again, the science of music leads us to
distinguish be-tween the harmonies fundamentals, to recognize the
tones and to give us the
Music and Science, the creation of the MuSci Cafes
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If we try just to mention only a few fields in which music is
relevant to, we should make a really long list. Nowa-
days, both humanistic and positive sciences admit having at
least some common points with music. Not onlyacoustics, but also
aesthetics, anthropology, archeology, art history and theory,
biology, cognitive sciences, com-position, computing, and cultural
studies share principles common with music. How about economics,
education,engineering, ethnology, gender studies, history,
linguistics, literary studies, mathematics, medicine,
neurosci-ences, philosophy, physiology, psychology, religious
studies, sociology, sport, and so forth.
But in what way all these disciplines are correlated to
music?
In what way the modern researcher in music technology uses
scientific data related to harmony, frequencies,intensities, and
volume changes or even the physiology of the eardrum in order to
best develop a new devise?However, for many decades, the conflict
between humanities and sciences has affected research and
scientificdevelopment. The two cultures egocentrically tended up to
recently to assume their own knowledge, attitudes,assumptions,
methods, and standards as superior.
For the benefit of the scientific research and progress such
behaviors tend to give access to approaches that con-tribute to
understanding of music in all its manifestations, definitions and
contexts. Additionally such approachespromote interdisciplinary
synergy among humanities and sciences as well as academic quality
and application ofresearch findings in every field.
Katerina Chotzoglou, Member of Science View
([email protected])
The interdisciplinary scientific approach of music
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