From 23 to 26 May 2024, the fourth edition of the ‚Galileo Galilei Science&Space Festival‘ will take place in Frankfurt and Darmstadt.
This festival is dedicated to the popularisation of scientific culture and topics and to highlighting the extraordinary network of Italian researchers in Italy and abroad.
This science festival, which is free and open to the public, subject to prior booking, is intended once again this year to be a concrete testimony to the leading role played by Italy in the field of fundamental science and technological research. The fourth edition presents some important novelties.
It starts on Thursday 23 May, at 7 p.m., at the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt (Robert-Mayer-Str.2/FFM) – which is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year – with a lectio magistralis by Prof. Gian Francesco GIUDICE, Director of the Department of Theoretical Physics at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory based in Geneva, who will speak on the theme „Before the Big Bang – How the Universe began and what came before.“
Prof. Luciano Rezzolla of the J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt will moderate the meeting, in English.
Admission is free and no booking is necessary. Further information can be found hier or in the festival programme
On Saturday 25 May, the Festival will move to Darmstadt, this time to the EUMETSAT Gallery Room (Eumetsat Allee, 1 – Darmstadt), where, starting at 16:45, we will have the opportunity to listen to Dr. Paolo RUTI (Chief Scientist of EUMETSAT), who will give a lecture on EUMETSAT OPERATION AND INNOVATION – A direct linking with the international user community to enhance daily life, introduced and moderated by Dr. Flavio Murolo. This will be followed by a lecture by Prof. Dr. Marco DURANTE (GSI-FAIR) on Space radiation to cure cancer on Earth (moderated by Prof. Silvia Masciocchi), a breaking news in Italian by Prof. Telmo PIEVANI of the Univ. of Padua on Communicating science: an interweaving of languages (introduced by Prof. Alberica Toia), and finally the talk, in Italian, by Dr. Giulio PINZAN (ESA) on Discovering the Moons of Jupiter: Juice an unprecedented mission (moderated by Dr. Paolo Ferri).
To attend the free events on Saturday 25 May at EUMETSAT, reservations are compulsory until 21 May 2024, by writing to: francoforte.culturale@esteri.it
And finally, this year’s festival will close on Sunday 26 May, 7 p.m., at the Internationales Theater in Frankfurt (Hanauer Landstr. 7 /FFM – Zoo-Passage) with an English-language ‚Science meets Music‘ show entitled: „Space and nature are bigger than us – Six memos for Humankind“ with Telmo Pievani and Paolo Ferri.
Original music composed by Marta Cametti.
Art Director: Donato Lospalluto.
Further Information on the Reading and Music show (in English/Italian and German) and ticket booking can be found at this link:
At the following links you will find the brochure with the complete bilingual (Italian-English) programme of the festival.
Our special thanks go to our partners: EUMETSAT, ESA-ESOC, GSI-FAIR, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Department of Physic), Physikalischer Verein Frankfurt and Italian Culture Club ESOC- EUMETSAT, Società Dante Alighieri – Darmstadt committee, and the Italian publishing house: Rizzoli Editore
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Festival & events organisation by Michele Santoriello (Ufficio culturale – Cons. Gen. d’Italia Frankfurt am Main
