Dear ICTP community!

This 13th edition of this classic event will be held on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May in Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia in Trieste and it will be co-organised as always by the ICTP and the Comune di Trieste. Internally to ICTP, the organisation of the event will be under the fablab team (STI section) with the assistance of many other admin offices and it will receive a financial contribution of 30K Euro from Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia and 35K euro from Comune di Trieste.

 

The opening time for the public will be 12:00–20:00 on Saturday and 10:00–18:00 on Sunday. This year the event is again held in May, with the aim to facilitate a broader participation of schools. 

Like in the past editions, as part of the event (focused on ingenuity and creativity, inventors and makers) there will be a "scientific village" named Science Picnic, with exhibits, demos and interactive activities for the young public, broadly open to all fields of science and STEM education. As you know, this year is also the Centennial of our founder Abdus Salam, and therefore is even more important for us to showcase ICTP activities to the local community of Trieste and the whole region (usually the MFTS attract around 20 thousands people from all Friuli Venezia Giulia and beyond).

As usual, the event will be family-friendly, free and open to everyone, and we hope you’ll contribute to fill it with fun and new things to discover!
You can personally contribute by:

- Organising a laboratory/activity/demo with the public within the ICTP booth (maybe just for an hour or so, or more times spread in the two days): it would be really great to have many hands-on activities, representing all ICTP research fields! Talks and slideshows/posters aren’t really ideal for the location and the “interactive” spirit of the event.

- Displaying and explaining an interactive scientific exhibit or experiment in your own booth (or as part of the ICTP one) for the whole duration of the event. The staff of the fablab will be happy to assist you in building your exhibit, if needed.

- Helping us by joining our volunteer/staff team, we always need more hands, feet and heads to run such a rich and fulfilling event :-)

- Spreading the word about Maker Faire Trieste and Science Picnic to your friends and communities!

All details and participation info are here: https://trieste.makerfaire.com/ and you can always come to talk to the organisers in the fablab at the lower level of E. Fermi building (ext. 5317)

Let's Celebrate Science, Creativity, Technology and Ingenuity together!

For the Maker Faire Trieste Team,