ECO-APC section meeting 22.06.2023

Present: Ana Godinho, Zoe Nikolaidou, Lila Mabiala, Valeria Pietropaolo, Xenia Anais Harder, Joséphine Deroma

Excused: Monica Bello, Claudia Marcelloni

Ana:

• Will be away on annual leave 17-24 July
• Paola will replace James as Deputy Group Leader when James leaves and until I leave and a new Group Leader is in place in 2024. At that time, both a new GL and DGL will be chosen.

Zoe:

• Will be away on annual leave 18 Aug - 1 Sept

Claudia

• Will be away on annual leave from 31 July until 16 August

Lila

• Will be away on annual leave from 30 June until 14th July

Arts at CERN

• Residencies:
  • Connect India with Rohini Devasher and Elisa Storelli (26 June – 15 July)
  • Connect Switzerland with AATB (26 June – 21 July)
• Press release (21 June) to announce the winner of Collide Copenhagen (https://home.cern/news/news/cern/joan-heemskerk-wins-cerns-collide-copenhagen-residency-award)
• Residency will take place between October and December at CERN and later at Contemporary Copenhagen
• Announcement of the collaboration with the exhibition Dark Matters at Science Gallery Melbourne, opening on 5 August
• Installation at Science Gateway
  • First artist to arrive on 26 June
  • Installation calendar still being fixed
  • We will begin on 21 August finishing 15 September
• Lea Porsager comes back for a residency from 18-22 September
• Connect Chile will be announced in September
• Plans for the Art and Science Summit are taken shape, date 30^th of January 2023, coordination team: Iliana Tatsi, Claudia Marcelloni, Monica Bello
• Vacation times:
  • Valeria will be away next week, 26-30 June.
  • Xenia will be in between contracts all of August.
  • Joséphine’s internship end on 7 July.

I4C at IdeaSquare

• An i2 educational programme led by University Torino
• A friend of Fabiola's led to SGW funding
• EXOR, Agnelli family
• Event on 6 July, Fabiola will attend
• Journalists will be coming, incl the Economist: Claudia will put them in tuch with the Press Office
  • Ana recommends Claudia get in touch with organisers and any journalists are to talk directly to the Press Office

Sparks!

• Leftover budget to be spent on:
  - Follow-up proposals: on James'advice, we're about to consult CERN legal on whether we need to write up an agreement for the follow-up projects
  - Website: we would like to update the Sparks! website and are exploring options to do so, both internally and externally. Fabienne has a student who may be able to help us design a Wordpress website
  - We will need to get help for the upcoming third edition. Claudia will talk to Ana about hiring an admin student, as well as looking for a replacement for Lila.
• We had a discussion with Zoe about her availability in terms of time for Sparks! later on in the year, goals to be refined

Public events

• Lila working on terms of reference for the public events committee, will harvest feedback from James
• We had an initial brianstorming session with Zoe to talk abotu the way public events will appear on the new visit website
• After meeting with Fabienne, there will be work done on a design proposal for Sparks! rebranding, she may need a sense of the current look and feel of the website