Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings and Mars Incorporated have announced a collaboration to make the 2010 meeting the most interactive ever. Young scientists worldwide will now be able to interact with Nobel Laureates through a social media aggregation site at lindau.nature.com. The site goes live ahead of the 60th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, scheduled for June 27 - July 2, 2010.
Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and interactive websites from NPG are mobilised to enable young researchers throughout the world to participate in the meeting. Videos of conversations between Nobel Laureates and young researchers and a special Nature Outlook will be freely available to all.
This year's interdisciplinary meeting gathers an unprecedented number of Nobel laureates, as 61 Nobel Laureates in physiology, medicine, physics and chemistry will meet with over 600 young researchers from all continents. Panel discussions, lectures, seminars and social events facilitate interaction between Nobel Laureates and the scientific and academic elite of the future.
The run-up to the meeting begins with a Q&A forum on lindau.nature.com, where users can suggest and vote for questions they would like to be put to the Nobel Laureates attending the Lindau Meeting. A forum on Nature Network (http://bit.ly/912lw2) connects this year's attendees with past attendees. Flickr competitions are up and running, and young researchers will post photos and video throughout the meeting. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube streams will also be fed into the site.
An international team of bloggers will report from the meeting. The blog roll is hosted by SciLogs (scilogs.de), the leading European science blogging service. SciLogs is part of Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the NPG company that publishes the German edition of Scientific American.
NPG and the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance will collaborate for the third year to produce films featuring one-on-one or small group discussions between individual Nobel Laureates and young scientists. Produced by Nature Video, the videos will be made freely available on nature.com and on YouTube.
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