ThebeginningsSerbian Science Festival was created in 2007 as a result of our desire to call public attention to science as an inseparable and irresistible part of life and to provide an inspiring, new and fresh look at differ-ent scientific fields. From the very beginning, the essential part of this mission was to bring science closer to non-scientific audience and to provoke interest in scientific work, and furthermore in understanding its impacts in everyday life.

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The first edition of the Festival took place at one single location, which was sufficient for our enthusiasm for popularization of science to cause a sensation among a vari-ety of target groups. The Festival recorded 8000 visitors in just two days. Year after year, the Festival has changed in terms of the programs, followed by the raise of the number of venues, demonstrators, lecturers, program segmentation for all ages and science disciplines, as well as, in its ultimate reach - the introduction of scientific dis-course in everyday life and provoking general public interest in scientific activities.

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TodaySeven years since its launch, Serbian Science Festival is far beyond its humble beginnings: at this moment, it is one of the top five science festivals in Europe, while at local level SSF represents the most popular and most important annual scientific event. Last year’s Science Festival recorded 30,000 visitors in four days and it hosted 45 scientific and educa-tional institutions with over 550 scientific demonstrators.

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Since 2007 our Festival is a member of European Science Events Association (EUSEA) and in 2015, the EUSEA Annual Conference will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, hosted by the Serbia Science Festival in May 2015.

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Missionand goalsFrom the beginning, we are guided by the idea to popular-ize science in order to reach broadest audience, and to pro-vide our own contribution to the promotion of science and technology pointing to their crucial importance in a modern society. Countless scientific exhibitions, lectures, interactive presentations, well-known contributing lecturers, enthusi-astic audience and more than 120,000 visitors from 2007 to the present, are the best proofs that we have succeeded whereas ever growing interest in our programs confirm that we are successfully pursuing this worthy endeavour.

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The first Science Festival was held in mod-est conditions, but even at that early stage it had a clearly defined goal: to show that science isn’t something strange and vague, but an immensely interesting research field of everything that surrounds us. We’ve made kids familiar with the greatest scien-tific minds bringing them closer to those just seemingly incomprehensible scientific phenomena, so very soon they started visiting us in increasing numbers. We have reached the point where each and every year motivating scientific speakers fill the halls and stands, provoking thundering sci-entific applauses.

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Introducing scientific stages, experimenting not only with science but also with scientists and the ways in which sci-ence could be brought closer to the audience, we’ve opened the door of the most prominent city institutions and spaces proving that science can be found outside the laboratories, in places such as city parks, restaurants, squares and streets.

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About usThe Science Festival initiator, founder and organizer, is NGO “Museum Night” that was founded in Belgrade, in 2004. At the same time, we are founders of Museum Night, the biggest cultural event in Serbia that recorded 11 suc-cessful annual editions.

Besides the fact that we’ve started our own production, since 2011 we have also organized the European project named Researchers’ Night and we have been involved in several other EU projects. Via program section named Experteenagers, we have proven that teenagers can be

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real scientific ambassadors where we connect peers with diverse interests who spread the excitement and enthusiasm that science involves.

We organized the first exhibition in Serbia that merges science and art. In May 2012 we organized Science Picnic and on that occasion we arranged real science feast by performing open – air scientific experiments. In cooperation with Museum of Sci-ence and Technology we designed the first Serbian Science Centre and helped production of 25 scientif-ic exhibits. Modeled after our event and in coopera-tion with us, more than 20 smaller science festivals were produced throughout Serbia.

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OUR DEAR GUESTSThrough the programs we have organized over the years, the visitors had the opportunity to witness the most cur-rent achievements and to keep in touch with the most ad-vanced instruments, machinery and tools that demonstrate scientific phenomena in a popular way. In front of the en-thusiastic Serbian audience, the experts from more than 30 influential international institutions and organizations dem-onstrated their knowledge, such as: National museum of Natural Sciences Madrid, City of Science and Arts Valencia, Thailand Science Society, National museum of Science and Technology Stockholm, Science Made Simple, University of Lugano, Science et Cite foundation, Cognitive Science De-partment Paris, Paris Montagne, Forensic Futures Educa-tion Group USA, Perugia Science Festival, Lund University Sweden, AHHAA centre Tallin, Atelier des Jours à Venir, Les Atomes Croshus and many others.

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The importance and potential of this event has been recognized by the most prominent scientific insti-tutions and universities that are on the list of our partners for years, and also every December science becomes one of the major media attractions. More than 50 electronic and print media covered the pre-vious Festival, the complete program has been pub-lished in all of the most popular media, and the Fes-tival has received its routine chronicles at the public broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

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VISIONThe long-term vision of Science Festival is to establish the posi-tion of science in everyday life in Serbia by the means of contin-uous presentation of scientific programs in a receptive manner and via the most relevant scientific ambassadors of our time.

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