Press Release: Europe’s top science communicators honoured

The Descartes Prize for Science Communication is this year going to 5 shining examples of how to make science accessible and understandable. The winners are Dr Sheila Donegan and Eoin Gill for the Eureka weekly science magazine aimed specifically at children; the documentary series "Europe, A Natural History" co-produced by ORF, BBC and ZDF; Prof Vittore Silverstrini for his Città della Scienza (City of Science) in Naples, a centre which unites an interactive science and technology museum with a business innovation centre; Dr Odd Askel Bergstad and other scientists of the MAR-ECO network for their work on involving the general public in the project's census of marine life; and Wendy Sadler for her "Science Made Simple" project , which gets teenagers excited about science. The awards were given at a ceremony in Brussels, attended by the German Federal Minister for Education and Research, Dr Annette Schavan and European Science and Research Commissioner, Dr Janez Potocnik. The ceremony coincides with celebrations of the contribution of research to the European Union over the last 50 years.