Scientific culture

Science Day: discover the program of the 2024 edition!

Publié le 03 octobre 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The 33e Science Day runs from October 4 to 14, 2024, across France and in a few foreigner countries, such as Italy and the US. The event aims to promote science to the general public. Thousands of free activities are organized to discover science in a fun and accessible format. The overall theme of the 2024 edition is the ocean, an environment that is still largely unexplored and mobilizes a significant field of research.

Since 1991, the Science Fair, organized by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, is an opportunity for everyone to meet scientists from all fields, to visit laboratories to discover the behind-the-scenes aspects of scientific research, or to exchange with cultural mediators and librarians passionate about science and technical innovation.

The objectives of Science Day are:

  • promoting exchanges between researchers and citizens;
  • value the work of the scientific community;
  • facilitating access to high-quality scientific information;
  • to enable everyone to take greater ownership of the issues at stake in scientific developments, in particular in order to encourage active participation by as many people as possible in public debate;
  • introducing scientists to their work and the professions that come from research;
  • to stimulate interest in science, curiosity about scientific careers, and vocations among young people.

Please note

Every year, more than a million people take part in the more than 6,000 Science Day events organized in France and abroad.

The program of the 2024 edition

The theme of the 33e Science Day is “ocean of knowledge”, a choice linked to the fact that from September 2024 to September 2025, the Year of the Sea takes place in France.

Exploring and preserving the ocean are major issues for the XXI centurye century. The ocean, as a complex environment, mobilizes an important field of research from the point of view of fundamental sciences (life sciences, physics-chemistry, geology...) as well as applied sciences (renewable energies, natural risk management...) and social sciences (history, economics, geopolitics...).

Families, school children or students, curious, skeptical or passionate about science: entertainment is designed for all types of audiences and all ages.

Find here the program of the Fête de la science throughout France and abroad. You can search for events by combining different criteria: regions, types of activities (workshops, exhibitions, games, shows, conferences...), age of the target audience, accessibility... Some activities, especially for children, take place online.

For example, Brest Science Village will allow you to discover the diversity and richness of marine sciences, the territory of breton concentrating more than 80% of the public and private french oceanographic research. And on Science Day, the Musée de l’Homme in Paris will be exceptionally free of charge october 11 to 13, 2024.

Please note

On the occasion of this year’s Science Day, a 6e volume of Science and Bubbles is published ; it brings together 7 comics inviting you to explore “water in all its states”. The main characters are 7 PhD students who agreed to tell their research in images. These illustrated narratives, aimed at a wide audience, represent a bridge between art and science.

The book is distributed free of charge by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research at various Science Day events, and is available in media libraries, libraries, documentation and information centers in middle schools and high schools.

You can also download a digital version of the book on Science Day.

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