Beyond Planet Earth

爱丁堡国际科学节是一家教育慈善机构，在通过各种活动、活动和教育计划促进科学参与方面取得了27年的成功历史。我们的使命、中心宗旨和目标都是为了通过面向广泛受众的创新活动和项目来促进与科学技术的接触。2015年，超过10.5万人参加了我们的门票活动，还有19万人参加了我们在爱丁堡各地举办的免费展览和动手活动。我们尤其以为年轻人创造身临其境的高价值学习机会而闻名和受人尊敬，近年来，我们非常成功地将这一专业知识应用于我们的成人活动方案。我们将该艺术节视为一座“活的实验室”：一个实验空间，它有可能将人们(观众、科学家和相关领域的专家)聚集在一起，以新颖的方式探索科学及其对社会的影响。在苏格兰的创新、建筑和设计年，2016年的艺术节于3月26日至4月10日举行，主题是我们如何才能建造更好的世界？探索科学、技术、工程和设计帮助改善我们的世界以及我们如何在其中生活的能力，我们将讨论展示一系列学科和科学研究领域的研究现状的主题，并阐明围绕科学的一些最有趣和最令人困惑的问题。在这个保护伞下，超越地球将是对非地球挑战和机遇的探索。从孩提时代起，我们都对天空中的星星产生了迷恋，并思考着未来的事情。这一系列相关活动将探索我们面临的机遇和挑战，因为我们试图在我们现在称为家的蓝色小星球之外建立更好的世界。长期以来，太空作为文学主题一直很受欢迎，最近《地心引力》(2013)和《火星救援》(2015)等电影以及最近英国广播公司(BBC)的连续剧《星际迷航》(Starazing Live)都取得了成功，这表明公众对这一迷人领域的研究兴趣浓厚。这个项目将为音乐节的与会者提供一个更深入地研究主题的机会。从对天文学的易懂介绍，到迷人但不可否认奇怪的量子世界，到无畏的行星机器人的更新，以及寻找外星生命和个人太空旅行的最新进展，《超越地球》将带观众踏上一段真正走出这个世界的旅程。在STFC的支持下，中心到超越行星地球是对STFC使世界级创新和研究成为可能的探索。我们将与当地、国家和国际合作伙伴合作，包括爱丁堡皇家天文台、英国天文技术中心、爱丁堡大学科学与工程学院和物理与天文学院、博尔比地下实验室、国家空间学院、英国天体生物学中心等。我们将与这些合作伙伴合作，将他们的项目和研究纳入Beyond Planet Earth事件，为观众提供对一系列空间科学主题的迷人见解，包括暗物质、宇宙起源、原行星系统、形成地球的行星、即将到来的太空任务，以及已经抓住公众想象力的菲莱着陆器等主题。Beyond Planet地球包括一系列14个活动和活动，包括全市范围的街道科学自行车，以及在苏格兰国家博物馆举行的大型活动，Beyond Planet地球旨在总共吸引大约12,000人(其中4,000人参加直接展示STFC项目和研究的活动/活动)。

Edinburgh International Science Festival is an educational charity with a 27 year history of success in promoting science engagement across a wide range of events, activities and education programmes. Our mission, central purpose and objectives are all aligned to promoting engagement with science and technology, through innovative events and projects for a wide range of audiences. In 2015 over 105,000 people attended our ticketed events and a further 190,000 people engaged with our free exhibitions and hands-on activities staged across Edinburgh. We are particularly well-known and respected for creating immersive, high-value learning opportunities for young people, and in recent years have been very successful in applying this expertise to our programme of events for adults. We see the Festival as a 'living laboratory': an experiment space that has the potential to bring people (audiences, scientists and experts from relevant fields) together in novel ways to explore science and its impact on society. In the Scottish Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, the 2016 Festival, held March 26th - April 10th, asks how can we Build Better Worlds? Exploring science, technology, engineering and design's ability to help improve our world and how we live in it, we will tackle themes that showcase the current status of research across a range of disciplines and areas of scientific enquiry, and articulate some of the most interesting and perplexing questions that surround the science. Under this umbrella, Beyond Planet Earth will be an exploration of non-Earthbound challenges and opportunities. From early childhood we all grow a fascination with the stars in the sky and ponder what lies beyond. This strand of linked events will explore the opportunities and challenges we face as we attempt to build better worlds beyond the little blue planet we currently call home. The long-standing popularity of space as a theme in literature and the recent successes of films like Gravity (2013) and The Martian (2015) and the recent BBC series Stargazing Live show a public appetite for investigation of this fascinating field. This project will deliver an opportunity for Festival attendees to delve much more deeply into the subject matter. From accessible introductions to astronomy, and the fascinating, but undeniably weird, quantum world, to updates from intrepid planetary robots and the latest on the search for extra-terrestrial life and personal space travel, Beyond Planet Earth will take audiences on a journey that is truly out of this world. Central to Beyond Planet Earth, with STFC's support, is an exploration of the world-class innovation and research made possible by STFC. We will work with local, national and international partners, including the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, the University of Edinburgh's College of Science and Engineering and School of Physics and Astronomy, the Boulby Underground Laboratory, the National Space Academy, the UK Centre for Astrobiology, and many more. We will work with these partners to incorporate their projects and research into Beyond Planet Earth events, providing audiences with fascinating insights into a broad range of space science topics, including dark matter, the origins of the universe, protoplanetary systems, terraforming planets, upcoming space missions, and topics such as the Philae lander which have already captured the public's imagination.Comprising of a series of 14 events and activities, including city-wide Street Science bikes, and a large-scale event in the National Museum of Scotland, Beyond Planet Earth aims to engage with approximately 12,000 people overall (with 4,000 attending events/activities that directly showcase STFC projects and research).