EU-China science week a hit

• Source: Global Times
• [10:57 June 17 2010]
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By Zhang Cao

Over 350 people attended the third day of the EU-China Science and Technology Week Wednesday at the Science Hall, watching the film Copernicus Tomb Mystery, and participating in a forum about brain science.

"The science films are very popular and since the event is free many people came out today," said Xu Wei, deputy director of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, the co-organizer of the fair.

The six-day festival in Luwan district, which ends Saturday and is being run by the EU outside the Expo Park during the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, has attracted over 600 visitors in its first two days, according to organizers.

Meanwhile, Professor H.G. Kuhn, speaker for the forum Better Brain, Wednesday welcomed many budding Chinese scientists that showed up.

"It's nice to see fellow scientists here; we've done the same forum in other countries, including Germany," he said. "In China, many scientists have come to listen, whereas in other countries, the audiences are generally made up of ordinary people."

Other highlights of the festival include some two dozen scientific documentary films and the EU-led "Science Café," a forum that focuses on hot scientific topics.

Jan Riise, director of Agadam AB, a Swedish company supporting the forum, said that the panel has been a hit.

"Many audiences have been really listening and asking the speakers some very interesting questions."

The next three days will see 11 more science films including The Moving Earth. Two science forums will focus on space and on the public's perception of science.