European large scale research infrastructures play a major role in pooling forces to address the main world research challenges also in the time of the pandemic.

The ERF-AISBL and its members have taken the chance of the Science in the City Festival at ESOF2020 to showcase to the wider public some of the research carried out at European research facilities, with an exhibition at Magazzino 28 in the old harbour (Porto Vecchio) in Trieste, from 2 to 6 September 2020.

The event consisted of videos, posters and interactive onsite and online live talks with expert scientists, on topics spanning renewable energy and cultural heritage, astronomy, environmental sciences and biomedical research, including recent advances in SARS-CoV2 antiviral therapies and vaccine.

Find out more about the schedule of the ERF live science talks and watch the recorded videos from the CERIC-ERIC youtube channel here.

• 3 September /1 – Stefano Pasisi (MLZ), Riccardo Bevilacqua (ESS), Gaetano Mangiapia (MLZ), Elisa Bergami (CERIC-ERIC), Laura Guasco (MLZ), Nicola Gentile Fusillo (ESO). Watch the recorded video here.
  
• 3 September /2 – Mattia Scardamaglia (MAX IV). Watch the recorded video here.

• 4 September /1 – Laura Guasco (MLZ). Watch the recorded video here.
  
• 4 September /2 – Giovanni De Giudici (CERIC-ERIC), Giacomo Fiocco (CERIC-ERIC). Watch the recorded video here.
  
• 4 September /3 – Alice Pellegrini (SKA), Maurizio Miccolis (SKA), Pietro Bolli (SKA), Marco Bartolini (SKA). Watch the recorded video here.

• 5 September /4 – Luca Stringhetti (SKA), Corrado Trigilio (SKA), Lorenzo Stievano (CERIC-ERIC). Watch the recorded video here.

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The event was organized by the members of RICE, the ERF-AISBL PR working group, and namely by Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, CERIC-ERIC, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO, Germany), Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialen und Energie (HZB, Germany), MAX IV Laboratory and European Spallation Source (Sweden), Heinz Maier-Leibinitz Zentrum (MLZ, Germany), Partnership For Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE, Belgium), Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKA, UK).