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ANtibioticS and mobile resistance elements in WastEwater Reuse

applications: risks and innovative solutions

H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015/675530 - ANSWER

Outreach Activity 12:

"Participation in Cyprus Researchers’ Night 2019"

ESR 14: Vasiliki Beretsou

Nireas-International Water Research Center, University of Cyprus

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Description

- Date of the event: 26/09/2019-27/09/2019

- Place where the event took place: Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

- Audience Details (number of participants, age, sex, etc.): audience of different age and sex

- Description of the topic of your presentation:

The “Researchers’ Night” is an event organized by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation in

collaboration with academic and research institutions as well as other organizations in Cyprus. The

event is an initiative of the European Commission and takes place simultaneously in almost all European

countries. The “Researchers’ Night” is a creative night-time event dedicated to science and research

through experiments, games, competition and music. Audiences of different ages have the opportunity

to meet up with Cypriot researchers and get informed about their work in a festive and friendly

atmosphere. In each stand, researchers present their work and inform the public about the role and

importance of research in the modern world as well as the impact of science in everyday life. At the

same time, participants have the opportunity to engage in hands-on experiments and become

researchers for one night!

Taking into consideration that the “Researchers’ Night” is an event that attracts people from all ages

and educational levels, the participation was through two activities in layman form:

− a poster presentation of ESR14 project’s objectives/activities and

− an illustrated interactive story-game explaining the evolution of antibiotic resistance and its spread

into the environment.

− an interactive quiz game with questions related with the water, wastewater reuse, antibiotics,

antibiotic resistance etc.

Announcement of the “Researchers’ Night 2019” event

- Add details, i.e. the dissemination procedure that was followed for the announcement of this event to

the general public, links were the announcement was uploaded and print screens, etc.

The Cyprus “Researchers’ Night 2019” was disseminated by the Cyprus Research and Innovation

Foundation at the social media via the following links:

− Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/researchersnightcyprus/

(Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2577645572259808/)

− Twitter: https://twitter.com/CY_Res_Night

− Blog: http://researchersnight.blogspot.com.cy/

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- Attached the announcement of this event.

Picture 1. Banner of the “Researchers’ Night 2019” created by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation.

Picture 2. Invitation to the “Researchers’ Night 2019” created by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (in greek).

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Dissemination material distributed during the event

- Attached the dissemination material (i.e. flyers, brochure, ppt presentation, etc.) distributed to the

audience during this event, with a short description.

Picture 3. Poster presentation of ESR14 project’s objectives/activities.

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The illustrated interactive story-game about antibiotic resistance is attached to ANNEX I (in A4 size).

Screenshots for the ANSWER interactive quiz game with questions related with the water, wastewater

reuse, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance etc. can be found at the following link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l3ogtbtschs3hfb/AAAd_EhyZG56YD3dTqgNV9tsa?dl=0

Photos of the event

- Attached some photos of the event (in high quality).

Picture 4. From left to right

(top): Iakovos Iakovides (ESR11 of ANSWER), Vasiliki Beretsou (ESR14 of ANSWER),

(bottom): Dr. Popi Karaolia (Administrative Manager of ANSWER, Dr. Lida Ioannou-Ttofa (Dissemination and

Outreach manager of ANSWER) and Dr. Irene Michael-Kordatou (Scientific Manager of ANSWER).

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Picture 5. Iakovos Iakovides (ESR11 of ANSWER) and Vasiliki Beretsou (ESR14 of ANSWER).

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Picture 6. Iakovos Iakovides (ESR11 of ANSWER) and Vasiliki Beretsou (ESR14 of ANSWER).

Final Remarks

- Add some final remarks, (i.e. regarding the success of the event, whether the audience seems to be

interested in your research, etc).

The event was a great success and lots of students and people from different ages and educational

levels attended the “Researchers’ Night 2019” and visited the stand of Nireas-IWRC, UCY, discussing

with the ESRs and the rest of the team of Nireas-IWRC, expressing their interest in their research and

in the ANSWER project.