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 has already received a financial contribution from Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia and 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:

- LAST CALL: organise 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! Please contact the ICTP Public Information Office to join the ICTP BOOTH team (pio@ictp.it)

- LAST CALL: help us by joining our volunteers, we always need more hands, feet and heads to run such a rich and fulfilling event. We will accept your help even if your Italian language skills are very basic, any additional hands and heads are useful! You can join the volunteers with this web form (in Italian only):

- UNTIL THE LAST SECOND: you can spread 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/ 

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

For the Maker Faire Trieste Team,