Beyond Planet Earth

爱丁堡国际科学节是一个教育慈善机构，有27年的成功历史，在广泛的事件，活动和教育计划中促进科学参与。我们的使命、中心宗旨和目标都与通过面向广泛受众的创新活动和项目促进与科学和技术的接触相一致。2015年，超过105，000人参加了我们的票务活动，另有190，000人参与了我们在爱丁堡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种专业知识应用于我们的成人活动计划。我们将科学节视为一个“生活实验室”：一个实验空间，有可能以新颖的方式将人们（观众，科学家和相关领域的专家）聚集在一起，探索科学及其对社会的影响。2016年3月26日至4月10日举行的苏格兰创新、建筑和设计年，提出了我们如何建设更美好的世界的问题。探索科学，技术，工程和设计的能力，以帮助改善我们的世界，以及我们如何生活在它，我们将解决的主题，展示了跨一系列学科和科学探究领域的研究现状，并阐明了一些最有趣和最令人困惑的问题，围绕科学。在这一保护伞下，超越行星地球将探索非地球的挑战和机遇。从孩提时代起，我们都对天上的星星着迷，并思考着天上的星星。这一系列相互关联的活动将探讨我们在试图在我们目前称之为家园的小小蓝色星球之外建立更美好世界时所面临的机遇和挑战。太空作为文学主题的长期流行，以及最近的成功电影，如《地心引力》（2013）和《火星人》（2015），以及最近的BBC系列节目《观星现场》，都表明公众对这一迷人领域的研究兴趣浓厚。这个项目将提供一个机会，为节日的与会者更深入地研究的主题。从对天文学的简单介绍，以及迷人但不可思议的量子世界，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消息，超越行星地球将带领观众踏上真正的旅程。在STFC的支持下，《超越地球》的核心是探索STFC所实现的世界级创新和研究。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活动，为观众提供对广泛的空间科学主题的迷人见解，包括暗物质，宇宙的起源，原行星系统，地球化行星，即将到来的太空任务，以及已经吸引了公众想象力的菲莱着陆器等主题。包括一系列14项活动和活动，包括全市范围的街道科学自行车，和苏格兰国家博物馆的大型活动，超越行星地球的目标是与大约12,000人参与（4,000人参加直接展示STFC项目和研究的活动）。

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).