The Advanced Production and Intelligent Systems (ARISE) Associated Laboratory participated in the European Researchers’ Night (ERN) in Coimbra. According to the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra, “The European Researchers’ Night is a science communication event that takes place annually in several European cities, with the aim of promoting awareness and the population’s involvement in science, bringing researchers and civil society closer together”.
The ARISE Associated Laboratory was present through CEMMPRE- Centre for Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Processes and ISISE- Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering.
This year the ERN theme was “SCIGLO -Science for Global Challenges”, and CEMMPRE participated with the topic “CEMMPRE for People, Prosperity and Planet”, showing to the public some of the work carried out at CEMMPRE, different types of elements were used, such as games and demonstrations (e.g. 3 D printer and robotic elements). The game aimed to make CEMMPRE’s various research areas known through simple questions adapted to the age and knowledge of the participants. ISISE participated with the topic “NICE – Night with ISISE, sCience and Engineering”, where some of ISISE researcher areas were displayed to the public, together with some experiences such as a seismic table, a resonance experiment and a music box to show to the public, in a simple way, how structures work in a seismic event and the importance of acoustic isolation.