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Organisations supported by DIUS

Under Section 5 of the Science and Technology Act 1965, DIUS provides funding to the following organisation

The British Association for the Advancement of Science

The Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) works closely with the BA and has provided it with core support as well as ad hoc support for specific projects and activities. DIUS provides a significant contribution to the BA's core funding (around 20% of its overall income), and supports a number of BA initiatives. 

a) Core-funded activities

• Schools Programme – Young and First Investigators Awards (primary level, reaching around 30,000 pupils) and BA CREST and Science Communicators Award (secondary level, reaching around 26,000 pupils).
• BA Festival of Science – reaching around 30,000 people directly, but gaining substantial national and regional media coverage (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines).
• Science in Society Programme – Dana Centre meetings, Science Communication Conference and Media Fellowships.  Other activities are also included in the programme, but these receive discrete funding from Government through direct commissioning (Common Language through Foresight), or competitive bidding (Small Talk and DISC through OSI Copus grants).

b) Directly-funded activities

• National Science Week Coordination – reaching over 300,000 people across the UK; attracting widespread media coverage (particularly at local/regional level); and 30-50% of the population aware of NSW;
• Fundraising – to enable the BA to build its mission and campaign.
• Science Communication Conference Bursary, to enable harder-to-reach groups to attend the conference

ECSITE UK

ECSITE-UK, the national Science and Discovery Centre Network, serves the specific needs of ECSITE members located in the UK. It was set up in April 2001 to give the expanding sector a strong national voice and to be the point of reference for the work of science and discovery centres.

ECSITE-UK's purpose is to raise the profile of science and discovery centres in the UK, and to establish their role as a forum for dialogue between science specialists and the public and as an informal learning resource for learners of all ages.

To find out more, visit www.ecsite-uk.net

Or contact ECSITE UK’s Executive Director : Melanie Quin melanie.quin@the-ba.net

ECSITE-UK
Wellcome Wolfson Building
165 Queen's Gate
London
SW7 5HE

Direct-line phone number : +44 (0)20 7019 4955

Main phone no +44 (0)870 770 7101
Main fax number +44 (0)870 770 7102

AlphaGalileo

AlphaGalileo is the world's leading independent resource for European research news. The website is used by our expert communications team to disseminate research news from source organisations to a high-quality audience of journalists worldwide. The service is run by an independent not-for-profit company, AlphaGalileo Foundation, which is based at offices in the UK.  For more information, see www.alphagalileo.org<?UK

The AlphaGalileo Foundation also promotes the Communiqué initiative which is a vehicle to progress the evaluation and subsequent creation of a European research media service. Communiqué is not the media service itself, but an impartial initiative to ensure that any media service that is created is relevant and practical, endorsed by the European Commission and the AlphaGalileo Foundation Advisory Council. For more information, see www.communique-initiative.org

AlphaGalileo Foundation

175-185 Grays Inn Road

London WC1X 8UP

United Kingdom

 l: +44 (0) 20 7812 0670
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7812 0650
alphagalileo@alphagalileo.org

or:

Laura Miles - Operations & Strategy Director
E-mail: laura.miles@alphagalileo.org
Direct tel: +44 (0) 20 7812 0597
Mobile: +44 (0) 7813 798 834

Foundation for Science and Technology

The Foundation's purpose is to provide a neutral platform for debate of policy issues that have a science, engineering or technology element. The Foundation organises dinner/discussions and workshops on relevant issues when parliament is sitting

The Foundation also provides a support service to learned and professional societies. Around 230 subscribe to receive the two monthly Newsletter. Seminars are organised on a regular basis on topics relevant to managing large and small societies.

The Foundation is overseen by a Council.  More information about FST can be found at http://www.foundation.org.uk/