Project Goals

The Project’s goals can be divided into those which will be achieved during the term of the project and which will be easily accessible and those which will hopefully be achieved over a longer time frame but which are possibly more important.

These latter goals include the increase in S&E graduates in Malta and Cyprus, thus helping to overcome the low position these countries occupy in the European Innovation
scoreboard. A similar but more widespread objective is to enhance the uptake of science
and increasing science-based careers amongst European citizens with disabilities. In both these cases, the aim is primarily to bring science popularisation programming to certain groups of individuals who do not presently participate on an equal level with other
European Citizens. The series is primarily aimed at children. The reason for this is that an interest in science must develop early if it is to influence educational choices and thus to leave the greatest effect on enhancing science higher education and careers.

The more tangible and more easily measured and assessed goals below are the means to the more long-term ends of the above-mentioned goals.

These specific goals are:-

a. To bring science and scientists into contact with the public and with adolescent
students in particular.

b. To show students and the public in general that science can be fun, not overly
difficult, of relevance to their daily lives and to what goes on around them.

c. To develop a means of combined science popularisation and education
through popular media by making a science program which grabs the attention
of students/adults alike who are normally not keen on science, and in their own
language ( Mother tongue).

d. To develop a format for combining enjoyable, relatively easy science practice
and popularisation with a popular discussion of cutting edge research.

e. To develop a methodology for disseminating recent research widely, in a
manner understandable to the lay public and to people speaking various diverse
European languages.

f. To translate this product into major English and disseminate it widely using e-access
methods to Europeans with disabilities thereby giving them better access to science popularisation.