June 3, 2009 Wolfgang Dungel Outreach activities in Austria EPPOG Meeting, Milano.

June 3, 2009

Wolfgang DungelOutreach activities in Austria

EPPOG Meeting, Milano

2Wolfgang DungelJune 3, 2009

The shock: “Austria will leave CERN”

• Announced by secretary of science on May 7

• No prior consultation …

www.hephy.at (english version available)

Online petition on sos.teilchen.at

• Austrian physical society reacted very quickly

• Two clusters:– Theoreticians at the Vienna

University of Technology– Our institute (HEPHY)

• Aim: To provide public with accurate information (costs, gains, …)

http://www.hephy.at/


Public opinion

• Within 3 days, 3 nobel laureates sent letters• Within 10 days: 16 nobel laureates (also from

medicine and economy), Prof Witten, ……….

• 3x104 signatures to our online petiton !!!!!

• The public was extremely interested from the very beginning

• Most newspapers were sympathetic


AUSTRIA WILL REMAIN PART OF CERN

• We did not let the discussion become personal• But still, we were quite happy when on the 11th day…

• Our conclusion:– Fast and decisive action helped organize public opinion– There had been no “hierarchy” – only cooperation!– Strong support from other scientific fields!– Spin-offs (medicine technology) resonated with the public

Thanks to all members of our

fantastic network and outreach!


Exhibition – LHC2008


• The last few years we had augmented talks and discussions in high schools with posters …

The future of the exhibition

• For this purpose, we will now use the material of our LHC2008 exhibition, plus additions (like Belle)


Participation of high energy physics since November 2008

4h-course (already twice: Nov, May)

Great resonance → sequel course!

Will be continued in May 2009

“Academy for gifted children“


“Academy for gifted children“


• “Long night of science”– Many groups of all fields presented

themselves throughout Austria

• ACCORD: Austrian Educational Cooperation for a COsmic Ray Detector

– Investigation of high energy cosmic radiation by pupils– First module is almost finished– Schools will participate starting in Fall 2009– Perhaps support by students of the University of Technology Vienna during the summer

Other activities in outreach


• CERN-AT

• Exhibitions– LHC2008– Support of our activities at high schools

• Special program for highly gifted young pupils

• Long night of science

• ACCORD– will startup later this year!

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June 3, 2009 Wolfgang Dungel Outreach activities in Austria EPPOG Meeting, Milano.

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