Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Interventions

• Eric Tannier gave a series of four lectures at the Université Populaire de Lyon, on "science and democracy".

• Eric Tannier participated to a round table on scientific communication for the BMIC days, november 2018.

• Audrey Denizot has participated in the organization and animation of activities for children about research during the event "Dans la blouse d'un chercheur" in ENS de Lyon. More specifically, she worked on a project aiming at explaining to children what microbes are, where they are and if/when you should worry about them and what is immunodeficiency. She made a small movie about it.

• Audrey Denizot is a member of a public outreach association : DéMesures. She is in charge of collaborations with external entities, including laboratories, museums and artists collectives. Website: https://demesures.jimdo.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DMesures/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DMesures Radio podcasts: https://demesures.jimdo.com/radio-1/radio-brume/ Interviews are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIn3CucWk1mLgbzE0noO2Iw

• National events: Audrey Denizot organized several events including Fête de la Science 2017 and 2018 and A Nous de Voir 2018, as well as conducted projects such as radio podcasts on science/society topics, interviews of researchers, projects mixing Science and Art.

Creation of media or tools for science outreach

• In collaboration with Sylvain Charlat (LBBE, Lyon), we developed game to present the effect of random mutations on evolution to young children. The “GreenMice” game has been presented to the general public in the “Maison des Mathématiques et de l’Informatique” during the exhibition “Comme par hasard”.