The festival of farming and food begins this week, during Science Week 10-17 November, and will take place at venues all around the country.
The theme of this year’s Science Week is 'climate action’ and this theme has been incorporated throughout the event programme.
The aim is to help people understand climate change, how science and technology can help us create a positive climate future and the impact we as individuals can have on climate change.
Teagasc has produced the publication Agriculture and Climate Change – your essential fact pack, which will be distributed at events.
“There is so much comment from different sources on the role of agriculture in climate change that it can be confusing, so, in this fact pack, we explain some of the basic facts in an easy to read style,” said Teagasc director of research Professor Frank O’Mara.
Project leader Catriona Boyle said: “Teagasc staff and students from research, advisory and education have embraced the challenge to create a unique programme of fun and informative events around the county. This is the largest-scale programme of events we have ever run for Science Week and we look forward to welcoming attendees to all of our events.”
All of the events are free thanks to sponsorship by Science Foundation Ireland and Teagasc.
Sunday 10 November: Kilkenny’s MacDonagh Junction shopping centreResearchers will show how science has advanced to protect against potato blight. There will also be an exhibit on biodiversity and a chance to make a plant cell from paper.
Monday 11 November: ‘Vision of Research’, Oak Park House in Carlow (Teagasc head office) Featuring compelling images of research and innovation activities taking place all over Ireland, there will be a chance to meet the researchers and find out more about the science behind the images. The winners of the 2019 competition will be announced on the night. Attendees will also get an opportunity to take a historic tour of the house.
At Teagasc Grange in Meath, a public lecture will take place on antibiotics, animal health and climate action, chaired by Minister for European Affairs Helen McEntee.
Thursday 14 November: Teagasc Moorepark, FermoyTV presenter Kathriona Devereux will host the 60-minute science event ‘Feeding the future: the science of sustainability and climate change’.
Thursday afternoon at Blanchardstown Library, Dublin, at the ‘A Slice of Science’ event, attendees will get to meet science researchers of food, horticulture and spatial science from Teagasc, Ashtown.
Three of Teagasc’s researchers - Katie Starsmore, VistaMilk; Dheeraj Rathore, Oak Park; Aoife McHugh, UCC/Teagasc - will be participating in this year’s ‘I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here’ online competition in the food zone. This is an online science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) engagement competition that gets people from all areas of science talking with curious school students across Ireland. Click here for details.
The publication Agriculture and Climate Change – Your Essential Fact Pack can be downloaded here.
To attend, click here.
The festival of farming and food begins this week, during Science Week 10-17 November, and will take place at venues all around the country.
The theme of this year’s Science Week is 'climate action’ and this theme has been incorporated throughout the event programme.
The aim is to help people understand climate change, how science and technology can help us create a positive climate future and the impact we as individuals can have on climate change.
Teagasc has produced the publication Agriculture and Climate Change – your essential fact pack, which will be distributed at events.
“There is so much comment from different sources on the role of agriculture in climate change that it can be confusing, so, in this fact pack, we explain some of the basic facts in an easy to read style,” said Teagasc director of research Professor Frank O’Mara.
Project leader Catriona Boyle said: “Teagasc staff and students from research, advisory and education have embraced the challenge to create a unique programme of fun and informative events around the county. This is the largest-scale programme of events we have ever run for Science Week and we look forward to welcoming attendees to all of our events.”
All of the events are free thanks to sponsorship by Science Foundation Ireland and Teagasc.
Sunday 10 November: Kilkenny’s MacDonagh Junction shopping centreResearchers will show how science has advanced to protect against potato blight. There will also be an exhibit on biodiversity and a chance to make a plant cell from paper.
Monday 11 November: ‘Vision of Research’, Oak Park House in Carlow (Teagasc head office) Featuring compelling images of research and innovation activities taking place all over Ireland, there will be a chance to meet the researchers and find out more about the science behind the images. The winners of the 2019 competition will be announced on the night. Attendees will also get an opportunity to take a historic tour of the house.
At Teagasc Grange in Meath, a public lecture will take place on antibiotics, animal health and climate action, chaired by Minister for European Affairs Helen McEntee.
Thursday 14 November: Teagasc Moorepark, FermoyTV presenter Kathriona Devereux will host the 60-minute science event ‘Feeding the future: the science of sustainability and climate change’.
Thursday afternoon at Blanchardstown Library, Dublin, at the ‘A Slice of Science’ event, attendees will get to meet science researchers of food, horticulture and spatial science from Teagasc, Ashtown.
Three of Teagasc’s researchers - Katie Starsmore, VistaMilk; Dheeraj Rathore, Oak Park; Aoife McHugh, UCC/Teagasc - will be participating in this year’s ‘I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here’ online competition in the food zone. This is an online science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) engagement competition that gets people from all areas of science talking with curious school students across Ireland. Click here for details.
The publication Agriculture and Climate Change – Your Essential Fact Pack can be downloaded here.
To attend, click here.
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