Cheltenham Science Festival offers both a celebration and critical exploration of science. Using hallmarks of quality, accessibility, debate and enjoyment, the festival presents scientific issues in a challenging and exciting environment, using a range of innovative event formats. The festival seeks to respond to public interest in scientific issues and to create opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to become more informed and to participate in dialogue and debate. Since it started in 2002, the festival has gained the reputation for nurturing talent in science communication and offering new opportunities for people from different backgrounds to engage different audiences in science.
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - the largest single endowment in the UK exclusively devoted to innovation. Our aim is to transform the UK's capacity for innovation. We invest in early-stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.
NESTA FameLab will identify the best new talent in science communication, helping people to share their passion for science and communicate complex issues in an engaging way. It will stimulate and inspire the next generation of scientists and innovators. Find out more at www.nesta.org.uk
Research Councils UK (RCUK) is a strategic partnership through which the UK's eight Research Councils work together to champion the research, training and innovation they support. The Research Councils are the main public investors in fundamental research in the UK with interests ranging from arts and humanities, bio-medicine and particle physics to the environment, engineering and economic research. Individually and collectively, the Research Councils support and promote a free flow of authoritative information and exchange of views between scientists, members of the public and policy-makers in the field of science. RCUK are funding the training elements of NESTA FameLab.
The Daily Telegraph is Britain's best-selling quality daily newspaper. Every Tuesday our dedicated science page brings you the latest discoveries and phenomena from the world of science. As well as our main feature, on anything from cosmology to marine biology, mathematics or psychology, there is also Professor Steve Jones's weekly "View from the Lab" where he explains complex scientific ideas in an entertaining and accessible style.
All of our science coverage can also be found on www.connected.telegraph.co.uk and FameLab coverage is on www.telegraph.co.uk/famelab.
Channel 4 has engaged a new audience with innovative science programming, presented by extraordinary people. "Recent highlights include 'Anatomy for Beginners', 'What We Still Don't Know' and 'Alien Worlds'." says Louisa Bolch, Science Editor at Channel 4. "We are looking for people with real passion, people with charisma, presence and expert knowledge, who can make us open our eyes and see the world in a new way. We're looking forward to getting to grips with Britain's next generation of science communicators."
The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations, operating independently from the UK Government.
The British Council's science programme supports scientific collaboration through the exchange of ideas and knowledge, and by building relationships between young scientists around the world. Through its science and society projects, it stimulates debate about the impacts of science on people's lives and awareness and appreciation of the UK with wider international audiences.
Enable Interactive is a leading digital communications company. With a passion for helping organisations achieve their communications goals, Enable specialise in highly accessible, highly usable web based solutions. Wherever possible they like to help clients who are trying to make society a better place by reaching out to diverse audiences, promoting environmental and ethical behaviour or operating socially responsible business practices.
Through a blend of creative, technology and strategy they have worked with Famelab to create a website that supports the search for the UK's best new talent in science communication.
SILICON 19 is a creative production company dedicated to producing innovative and effective moving picture content for TV, film, DVD, video and the internet. An accredited television advertising agency and digital post-production facility, SILICON 19 exploits media technology to produce exciting solutions for broadcast, the commercial sector and the arts.
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