The project “ESCITY-Europe Science and the City: Promoting Science Culture at Local Level”,financed by the EC held a working seminar in the Culture Institute of Barcelona on the 25-26 of October. The event was organized by the Science Communication Observatory (Pompeu Fabra University) and the Culture Institute of Barcelona City Council Vladimir de Semir, Scientific Director of ESCITY and Commissioner for Scientific Culture, chaired the meeting. Programme of the meeting

The working seminar organized by the ESCITY project partners was a success in itself as it gathered important cities that discussed about science culture. One of the ideas issued was that science culture must be fostered from local and regional municipalities through different ways. Museums are one of the most powerful resources to convey science to the general public, as it was shown with the cases presented by the Portuguese participants of the Centro Ciência Viva from Estremoz or the case of the municipality of Guimarães also from Portugal. Nottingham, one of the six cities designated Science Cities by the UK government, was also a case presented in the seminar.

During the seminar all participants discussed about how the network of science cities will work. The results of these discussions together with the final reports of the EC financed project ESCITY will be presented next July in the ESOF conference that take place in Barcelona.