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UNIVERSCIENCE 2016
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STRENGTHENING
PARTNERSHIPS AND
HOSTING
MAJOR EVENTS
UNIVERSCIENCE PARTENAIRES
Sharing the valuesofUniverscience,majorFrenchand international
groups, businesses and research organizations all provide active
input on Universcience projects including L’Oreal for the
Decoding the hair
exhibition, Airbus for
Leonardo Da Vinci
, Orange
and Suez for the exhibition on
UrbanMutations
, and Total for the
duplication of a part of the permanent exhibition on energy
in China and Germany.
The Universcience Partenaires endowment fund has been
leading these sponsorship and patronage initiatives, building
up a co-operative ecosystem that links Universcience to the
socioeconomic world.
HOSTING AND ENHANCING PUBLIC AND
PROFESSIONAL EVENTS
Universcience’s Congress Centre hosts more than 200 professional
events a year with nearly 200,000participants.Over 30 years, it has
built up a solid expertise in the organizing international conferences
and events.
Since 2008, the Congress Centre has received an Afnor quality
certification. Auditoriums, dedicated facilities and areas in the
heart of exhibitions, planetariums in both theCité des sciences et de
l’industrie and the Palais de la découverte provide ideal settings for
major professional events.
Universcience also hosts many events for the general public and
participates every year inmajor nationwide events, such as the 3-day
long
National Science Festival
(over60,000visitors at the two sites),
Brain
Week
(featuringmany research scientists),
Maths Week
,
Night of Stargazing
,
or live broadcasts of such important events as the landing of Rosetta’s
PhilaeprobeoncometChuryumov-Gerasimenko.Universciencehas
thus acquired a solid expertise in the engineering of science events
that it makes available to its partners.
Bringing science
to life at two locations in
the heart of Paris.
