Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences

This fascinating new project continued great success of our last year’s action: “the Neuroscience Bus”, and aimed to integrate neuroscience and brain awareness into the general community by presenting and displaying popular neuroscience within the city’s public spaces. On the 7th day of the BAW in Krakow (17.03.2019), the ‘Neuroscience boat’, was circling for 5 hours around the limits of the medieval and beautiful Krakow’s old town. The selection of activities on board included short popular neuroscience lectures, scientific workshops, neuroscience promoting posters, multimedial presentations, and scientific riddles/quizzes. The activities on board engaged the crowds walking on the banks of the Vistula River and through the Krakow Old Town, offering brief encounters with neuroscience, and providing a chance of interaction between Krakow residents, tourists and neuroscientists. The Neuroscience Boat, operating under the patronage of Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences created an opportunity to interact with famous local neuroscientists and young PhD students, ask questions, and get immediate answers. We estimate that during the 5 hours of boat operation we easily reached several hundreds of people across the entire age spectrum. There was also an added value to the present project, which was the engagement of young neuroscientists (PhD students) into popularisation of neuroscience.

The Neuroscience Boat, operating under the patronage of Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences created an opportunity to interact with famous local neuroscientists and young PhD students, ask questions, and get immediate answers. We estimate that during the 5 hours of boat operation we easily reached several hundreds of people across the entire age spectrum. There was also an added value to the present project, which was the engagement of PhD students into popularization of science

There is enormous interest in the brain. Next year we need to figure out a way to accommodate all interested people as this time we had only limited capacity (boat size)