The Science Days Palestine (SDP) 2016 edition, which hosts the Science Film Festival (SFF), will launch on 17 October. SDP will focus on Material Science, giving visitors the chance to discover the importance and use of traditional, newly developed and rediscovered materials.
Following its success with over 40,000 visitors in 45 locations across Palestine since 2013, and despite the movement restrictions imposed by Israeli occupation, the Festival is organised for the 4th year, targeting children and young adults with excitingly custom-designed science content and events.
This year’s Festival will run for a month in numerous venues across Palestinian cities, towns and villages, including Jerusalem, Ramallah, Gaza, Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Jenin, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jericho, Nazareth, Birzeit, Nilin, Khan Younis.
SDP offers a unique chance for communication and interaction in the fields of science. It is a mean to support science and art education in Palestinian schools, contribute to the quality of science education, and facilitate the dissemination of the culture of science in the society at large.
The 2016 Festival will include a variety of activities, games, workshops, science Films, art tinkering and exhibits focusing on multiple perspectives of materials from atomic structure to physical and chemical characteristics connecting them to science, culture, industry and the economy.
These activities are aimed to help visitors rethink material, and develop the needed knowledge and know-how on how to combine and manufacture various materials under different conditions.
Also, the Science Film Festival will allow visitors to explore the concept of material through the screening of 14 scientific films and TV programmes (dubbed into Arabic) from Germany, United Kingdom, China and Australia, and interactive activities that follow.
The Science Film Festival, which was launched in 2005 by Goethe Institute, celebrated 10 years in 2015 and reached up to 750,000 visitors in 12 countries including Palestine, Jordan, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
SDP is organised and funded by The Ramallah Municipality, Al Nayzak Organization for Supportive Education and Scientific Innovation, A. M. Qattan Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Institut Francais and in cooperation with several local institutions.
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The concept of ‘Material Science’ began in the early times of humanity, when our ancestors started using their surrounding resources to make tools and materials to support their daily life. Man then began creating material with better fit to his purposes progressing up to the wide diversity of material and their uses today. The high diversity of materials and the endless possibilities made Material Science a core topic in many fields including medicine, engineering, architecture, technology and industry. In the future, it will also determine and dominate many more emerging fields such as informatics, energy saving, nano-technology and recycling.
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