The festival of science – European Researchers’ Night is a yearly organized event throughout Europe and even wider. This event brings together a large public of people and researchers on the last Friday of September and it takes place simultaneously in about 250 cities.

The main aim of this festival of science is above all to familiarise the general public with science and research and to popularise these topics. 
The program activities are designed to bring research out of the laboratory and into the city centres, shopping malls, cafés, clubs or museums. The public can try out the latest technologies and instruments under the guidance of scientists, participate in experiments, competitions and quizzes, watch demonstrations and simulations, exchange ideas and party with the researchers.

In Slovakia European Researchers’ Night is organized since 2007 and is funded by the Horizon 2020, the biggest Research and Innovation EU programme, within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.

The event is held in five Slovak cities – Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, Žilina, Košice and Tatranská Lomnica and features more than 1,000 researchers from all scientific disciplines and is attended by nearly 200,000 visitors.

It is organized by SOVVA (the Slovak Organisation for Research and Development Activities), SAV (the Slovak Academy of Sciences,) EurActiv.sk and CVTI (Slovak National Centre of Scientific and Technical Information).

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