From Torino 2010 to Dublin 2012

• ESOF2010 PASSION FOR SCIENCE COMES TO TURIN

  Euroscience Open Forum, ESOF2010. Passion for Science, concluded with the surprising and almost sky-high handover from Turin to Dublin on the roof-top track of Lingotto, at the presence of the Mayor of Dublin and the Deputy Mayor of Turin. Over 4,300 participants were registered in the 7 days of the event, with more than 400 accredited journalists from all around the world and an estimated influx of 75,000 visitors involved in the extraordinary collective spectacular show of Science in the City which enlivened the city's nights during ESOF.

  ESOF2010 also conquered the net with 25,000 visits in seven days, more than 400 tweets on Twitter, and the ESOF2010 group on Facebook had about 1,000 users. We also had more than 4,000 views of video on-demand of the sessions with the event just closed with the WebESOF project.

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• Torino Declaration 2010

  Presented at the General Assembly of Euroscience in Torino as a summary message of ESOF2010.

  Euroscience urges the European Union (European Council and European Parliament) through the European Commission to monitor national research and educational investments with the same determination that it is spending on overseeing and tracking economic and financial parameters. This analysis must provide the basis for determined pan-European actions to sustain education, research and innovation.

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• SEE YOU AT ESOF2012!

  

  ESOF2012, the fourth edition of the Euroscience Open Forum, closed on 7 July 2010 with the Handover Ceremony between Torino – ESOF2010 – and Dublin.

  At 14.15 on the roof-top track of Lingotto the Deputy Mayor of Torino, Tom De Alessandri, and the President of ESOF2010, Enrico Predazzi, made the symbolic handover respectively to the Mayor of Dublin, Gerry Breen, and to the President of ESOF2012 Patrick Cunningham.

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• TWO SMALL PLANETS NAMED AT ESOF2010

  During the Inaugural Ceremony of ESOF2010, on 2 July at the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium of Lingotto, two small planets were named respectively “Torino”, a gift to the city that hosted the fourth edition of ESOF and to its long scientific tradition, and “Rita Levi Montalcini”, a homage to the Torino scientist, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

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