Science Week Ireland

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Science Week Ireland is an annual week-long programme of events taking place across Ireland each November. Its aim is to make science more interesting and accessible to children and adults.

Science Week is an initiative of the Irish Government’s Discover Science & Engineering (DSE) awareness programme ^[1]. DSE is managed by Forfás on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment^[2].

Science Week 2007 took place between 11 – 18 November and the theme was “Surrounded by Science”. The programme of events set out to illustrate that behind the everyday objects in our lives is a great inventor, scientist or engineer. This included a series of lectures which featured: Craig Johnston, inventor of the Adidas Predator; Joe F. Edwards, Jr., a former NASA astronaut and Dr. Sheila Willis, Director of the Forensics Science Laboratory^[3].

2007 was the eleventh year of Science Week and saw an estimated 95,000 people attended lectures, exhibitions and workshops throughout the country.^[4]