Thomson Reuters EndNote, the industry's leading software for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references, has announced a collaboration with Discovery Center Continium, a science museum headquartered in Kerkrade, Netherlands, to sponsor Science Hack Day Euregion on June 21-22. This event marks Kerkrade's second Science Hack Day.
The Netherlands' scientific and technological communities have been invited to attend the second annual Science Hack Day in Kerkrade, at the Discovery Center Continium. This year's theme, 'Hack the Heritage,' asks participants to derive inspiration from the museum's exhibits to build solutions or 'hacks' for the future based on scientific innovations throughout history.
Discovery Center Continium opened its doors in June of 2009 as the first Discovery Center of The Netherlands. With an extensive collection of industrial heritage and a vast amount of hands-on exhibits, the Continium combines the best of a museum and a science center. Visitors can discover how science and technology affect their day to day life, not only in the present time, but also in the past and the future. They can travel through time, experiment with science and build their own technical gadgets.
Science Hack Day is a global grassroots movement aimed at empowering scientific innovation with events joining scientists, engineers, programmers and designers to work together in the same physical space to nurture new scientific concepts. Since its launch in 2010, more than 30 Science Hack Days have been held in over a dozen countries. The event is designed to connect individuals from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, all sharing a passion for science, to work together to develop new scientific solutions or 'hacks.' During each event, groups compete in a friendly competition to build the best prototype based on a concept of their choice within 48 consecutive hours.
Science Hack Days have been primarily fuelled by volunteers and regional sponsorships. As the first global sponsor, EndNote is helping the movement further its goal of making science more accessible by providing funding and marketing support to increase awareness, enhance current events and spread the movement to new cities.
Science Hack Days planned for 2014 are: Shanghai, China, July 12-13, 2014; St. Petersburg, Russia, August 1-3, 2014; Antananarivo, Madagascar, August 9 - 10, 2014; San Francisco, USA, October 4 - 5, 2014; and Berlin, Germany, October 24 - 26, 2014.
EndNote is utilised by more than 1,100 global academic institutions and R&D departments and two million scientists, researchers and students worldwide. It is committed to keeping its user community in step with the constantly evolving world of scientific research by providing advanced tools for managing and creating research effectively and efficiently. EndNote is integrated with other industry-leading sources from Thomson Reuters, including the Web of Science and ScholarOne Manuscripts peer-review systems and company research management and profiling tools.
