NOW IT’S TIME TO BE A PART OF THE IV. TALES FROM MEDNIGHT, THE LITERATURE COMPETITION THAT BRINGS SCIENCE TO THE ENTIRE SOCIETY

• Selected tales will be staged in hospitals, nursing homes and immigrant reception centers and will be published as a book.
• The subject of the tale should be related to the Mediterranean and should address some scientific aspects of the Mediterranean.
• The deadline for applications is August 15th.

If you write scientific stories, research, teach or disseminate science, you can be part of the project featuring IV. Tales from Mednight. This literary competition aims to bring science together with hospitalized children, migrants and the elderly by telling the winning stories. The deadline for submitting your works is August 15th at 23:59. Work applications can be made electronically using the form on the Mediterranean Researchers’ Night (MEDNIGHT) website. You can access the competition rules here (web page).

The selected tales will be compiled into a compilation book with an ISBN and published digitally and in print. A printed copy of the compilation book will be sent to the winners as a prize. The story to be sent to the competition must be related to the scientific aspects of the Mediterranean and must have elements of tales and short stories. There are two categories: tales for children and tales for young people.

Applications for works can be made electronically using the form on the Mediterranean Researchers’ Night (MEDNIGHT) website. You can access the competition rules here. (web page)

Dozens of authors from all over the Mediterranean and Latin America are already participating in an inclusive and supportive dissemination proposal. The works from previous editions are available on the MEDNIGHT website, and the third edition has been translated into Greek, Italian and English. You can download Tales 2023 from MEDNIGHT here for free.

MEDNIGHT Tales will be told at the Mediterranean Researchers’ Night events to be held on September 27 in different locations in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Greek Cyprus and Belgium.

MEDNIGHT is a Mediterranean scientific dissemination project that connects knowledge centers at both ends of the Mediterranean and brings together the participation of a consortium of 14 institutions. MEDNIGHT is coordinated by the University of Messina and consists of the following consortium: MUDIC, El Caleidoscopio, CIEMAT, SciCo Cyprus, SciCo Greece, Kadir Has University, European Association of Women Rectors (EWORA), Genopolys, Monastir Palace of Science, Tolouse University Hospital Center, INSERM, Athena RI IT and Marie Curie Alumni Association.

MEDNIGHT is organised within the framework of the European Researchers’ Night, a scientific dissemination project supported and funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon Europe programme’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (grant agreement no. 101162227).