We now know the 15 finalists of Science Populariser 2016, selected in the first stage of the competition by the members of the jury. From this group, the jury will select the winners, whose names will be announced in mid-December, during the competition gala at the Ministry of Science in Warsaw.
This year\'s 12th edition saw record interest in the Science Populariser competition - we received 115 entries.
Members of the jury selected 15 finalists in the first stage of the competition - top three in each of the competition categories: Scientists, Animators, Teams, Institutions and Media. In the second stage, the jury will decide which of the finalists will be awarded the title of Science Populariser and the statuette of this year\'s edition of Science Populariser.
Winners will be announced during the competition gala in mid-December at the Ministry of Science in Warsaw. The jury will announce the names of the best individual popularisers, as well as the names of the best teams, institutions and media that popularise science.
Above all, the jury will name the Grand Prize winner, who will receive the title of Science Populariser 2016.
Like every year, the editorial staff of PAP - Science and Scholarship in Poland will additionally grant special Tomasz Trzciński Award for the benchmark information policy.
The members of the competition jury are: Prof. Michał Kleiber (chairman) - one of the initiators of the competition, a longtime president of the Polish Academy of Sciences, former Minister of Science and Information Technology; Prof. Magdalena Fikus - promoter of science, co-organizer of the Warsaw Science Festival; Robert Firmhofer - director of the Copernicus Science Centre, ed. Krzysztof Michalski - journalist of Polish Radio and science commentator, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and PAP - Science and Scholarship in Poland.
The competition "Science Populariser" is organised by PAP - Science and Scholarship in Poland of the Polish Press Agency in cooperation with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education It awards individuals and institutions who help others better understand the world, and are able to interest persons not associated with science in scientific developments.
The list of this year\'s finalists:
Scientists:
Bogusław Pawłowski
Piotr Sułkowski
Tadeusz Wibig
Animators:
Magdalena Osial
Wojciech Dindorf
Dawid Myśliwiec
Teams:
Chemiczne Koło Naukowe "Flogiston" (Chemical Scientific Society "Flogiston")
Załoga F - Filozofuj (Team F - Philosophize)
ARCH-TECH team
Institutions:
Office for Science and Economic Co-operation, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Poznań Science and Technology Park
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Media:
Zdzisław Cozac
Crazy Nauka
Platon.TV
Profiles of finalists in the main categories will be presented on the PAP - Science and Scholarship in Poland website from Monday, November 21.
We congratulate the finalists and thank all candidates for their efforts to popularise science!
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