Cafes

See individual cafe pages for more details of their activities
 

July 2008

Cafe sci in school

The three-year pilot stage of cafe sci in school has been a great success. Currently, some seventy schools across the north of England (the focus area for the project) are engaged in the project at some stage, from initial interest to self-sustaining cafe. A further thirteen schools outside the project area are also involved.

In January 2008, we applied for new funding from the Wellcome Trust to extend and enhance the project; an application in which, happily, we were successful.

For more information visit the Café Sci website.

May 2008

Recruiting new project organiser for cafe sci in school - go to www.juniorcafesci.org.uk for details

July 2007

New cafe in St Ives.

June 2007

New cafe in Durham.

May 2007

Second International Cafe Scientifique Organisers' Conference, Leeds, UK.

April 07

New cafe in Dartford.

March 07

Ann Grand (Junior Cafe Scientifique) spoke about junior cafes at Kyushu and Kyoto Universities and held a workshop session at the Girls' Science Camp of Kansai, in Kobe University.

New cafe in Canterbury.

December 06

Ann Grand and Shiela Ochugboju (Junior Cafe Scientifique) attended First Pan-African Conference on Science Communication in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

October 06

New cafe in Falmouth.

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September 06

New cafes in Barnsley, Bath & Leamington Spa.

May 06

Ann Grand (assistant organiser for Junior Cafe Scientifique and host of the Cafe Scientifique website), spoke about junior cafes (pdf of presentation available here)at Communicating Science: The Method and Practice of Science Communication a symposium held in Tokyo on 23rd May, jointly organised by NISTEP and the British Council and at a post-symposium event on cafe scientifique, hosted at the British Council (pdf available here).

New cafe starts in CROYDON

April 06

New cafe starts in PORTSMOUTH

February 06

Duncan Dallas (founder of the Cafe Scientifique movement and organiser of the Leeds, UK cafe) and John Cohen, (organiser of the Denver, US cafe) hosted a workshop at the AAAS conference, St Louis in February 2006. Download the text of Duncan's talk here (pdf). Farsi version here

January 06

Welcome to two new cafes in the British family: SALISBURY and BISHOP'S STORTFORD

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