For the University of Lorraine, the ambition behind Science & You is to bring closer science and citizens in order to raise awareness on science culture's societal stakes.
Following the Journées Hubert Curien Conference, Science & You is an international science culture event addressed to professionals (researchers, PhD students, heads of museums and science centers, science communicators and journalists...), and open to the general public.
The event is made of 4 concurrent parts:
- a congress dedicated to science culture, supervised by an international scientific committee,
- a formation on how to master science communication techniques, addressed to international PhD students,
- a "science & culture" forum, which showcases innovative actions of science communication,
- a series of cultural events addressed to the general public, disseminated across the region.
Science & You's first edition took place in Nancy (France) form 1st to 6th June 2015, and gathered 1000 congressists, 115 PhD students, and 10 000 visitors of the general public.
Consequently to this success, partnerships have been made with science dissemination structures on an international level. The first franchised edition of Science & You took place in Montréal in May 2017, in partnership with Acfas - Association francophone pour le savoir, ahead of their annual congress.
NAIS - National Academy of Innovation Strategy - has organized Science & You's second franchised edition in Beijing in September 2018.
This year, a new edition of Science & You is organized, it will take place at the Robert Schuman Congress Center in Metz, from November 16 to 19, 2021.