ESOF2024 | 12–15 June 2024 | Katowice, Poland
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About EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF)
The EuroScience Open Forum is a biennial meeting designed to offer the scientific community a platform for interdisciplinary and intersectional debate about scientific culture, scientific research, and innovation. It is created for the society’s benefit and carried out with the society’s participation.
ESOF2022 participants | Photo by EuroScience Open Forum
Goal of the conference
The main goal of the ESOF2024 conference is to explore the connections between science and society, the conditions for conducting research, and their impact on society. We aim to stimulate debate on social changes related to science and analyze the social, cultural, and economic consequences of scientific breakthroughs at regional, national, European, and global levels. In the face of global challenges and to enhance international scientific cooperation, scientists want to discuss science as a factor of change in our lives and how the very life changes science.
Programme
The programme includes lectures, seminars, a debate, workshops, poster presentations and exhibitions, interactive sessions, and a wide array of public engagement forms. The theme for the ESOF2024 is:
Life changes science. Katowice will host Europe’s and the world’s leading personalities in the world of science, academic researchers, representatives of public and non-public institutions supporting science, business people, representatives of media, and those interested in the role of science in the contemporary world.
The time has come for life to change science so that it works not just for the benefit of one species, but for the benefit of all living beings on Earth.
Prof. Ryszard Koziołek
Rector of the University of Silesia, leader of the Academic Consortium Katowice City of Science 2024, ESOF 2024 Champion, and Chair of the Committee
ESOF2024 | Six areas
ESOF2024 is centred around the six main areas corresponding to the biggest challenges science is currently facing.
Energy Transition
Sustainable Environment
Cultural Identity and Societal Transformation
Changes Within Scientific Excellence
Healthy Society
Digital Transformation
Founders
ESOF is an initiative by EuroScience, the European Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, a non-profit organisation associating scientists from all over Europe. The conference has been continuously taking place since 2004 in cities with the title of the European City of Science. The conference in Katowice will be the 11th ESOF.
ESOF2022 Regional Site
In 2022, for the first time in the history of ESOF, a conference accompanying the main events was organized. It was called ESOF2022 Regional Site Katowice. The capital of Upper Silesia joined the efforts with Leiden, and science-minded experts from around the world met in both cities at the same time. For Katowice, the event was a foretaste of the challenges and opportunities connected with ESOF2024.
Watch the ESOF KATOWICE 2022: Aftermovie
