International Science Festival in Gothenburg

The International Science Festival in Gothenburg took place for the first time in April 1997 and is since then an annual recurrent event.

The purpose is to communicate science to the public and schools in an easy accessible and in a thought provoking manner.

Another objective is to create a positive attitude to research and science which is intended to encourage higher education.

[1] This makes it the largest popular science event in Sweden[2] and one of the largest popular science events in Europe.

Each year a special theme that the festival focuses on is chosen: (translated)