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Understanding Cancer - Saving Lives
Last update on: 02/18/2009
© Anna Rauchenberger, pressetext.at
To allow creative minds the pleasure of research, young researchers and established scientists of the St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung (Children's Cancer Institute) invited those curious, from the age of 15, to an interesting project, allowing them to delve into the world of research.
"Understanding Cancer – Saving Lives" occurred on occasion of the 20-year existence of the Children's Cancer Research Institute, as part of the EU-Framework Project OVERCOMING CANCER WITH RESEARCH, at the festival room of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Over three-hundred curious students from Vienna and lower Austria came to the student and public forum on November 20th, 2008. The team of well-established and of young scientists invited the adolescents to interesting lectures and discussions in order to portray the world of science, child cancer research in particulary, to them transparently and excitingly.
Dr. Susanne Brandsteidl, President of the Vienna School Board, welcomes the big success along with Univ.-Prof. Helmut Gadner, Head of the Children's Cancer Research Insitute and medical director.
"From the school's and student's point of view, this project is twice as interesting. On the one hand we can sensitise adolescents for the topic of children's cancer and this sensitising alone is in itself a contribution to the optimal integration of cancer patients in our society. On the other hand such a project is a great chance for senior students to get a taste of the world of science and research", suggests Dr. Susanne Brandsteidl.
"We hope to awaken their research spirits, in order for them to possibly choose a career in research. If they do so, this could also trigger additional progress for children's cancer research", explains Dr.Susanne Brandsteidl.
Contents of the event
- Research is an opportunity for the future and provides work possibilities.
- The curiousity in natural sciences should be awakened.
- Scientific approaches are evidently explained comprehensively.
- The concrete use of research is portrayed on hand of the careers of young as well as well-established scientists, with the help of diverse lectures and podium discussions.
Target Groups
- Students of “AHS Oberstufen” (grammar school, 15 up to 18 years of age) and of higher middle technical schools,
- their teachers
- the interested general public
- interested media representatives
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