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000007495 100__ $$aPham, L.B.S.
000007495 245__ $$aSoapbox Science Brussels: an Outreach Platform for the Promotion of Women in Science in Belgium
000007495 260__ $$c2024
000007495 520__ $$aSoapbox Science is a public outreach platform whose purpose is to promote the visibility of women and non-binary scientists and their research by bringing them on to the streets to meet the passers-by. Soapbox Science aims at tackling stereotypes about science and scientists by showing, in an interactive way, attractive role models for women and nonbinary people, who represent a minority in sciences. This initiative was founded in London, UK, in 2011 and has been spreading worldwide since then. In 2019, the idea to endorse the organisation of Soapbox Science events in Brussels started germinating in the head of a small group of scientists from two Belgian Federal Scientific Institutes. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the first Brussels event was held online in the fall of 2020, but, since 2021, the team succeeded in organizing Soapbox Science events every June in Brussels. These proceedings present the development of the Soapbox Science initiative in Belgium and describe the motivations, challenges, issues and opportunities encountered throughout the process, and how Soapbox Science Brussels gradually takes its place in the Belgian context of the promotion of women in sciences.
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000007495 6531_ $$aSoapbox Science
000007495 6531_ $$aWomen
000007495 6531_ $$aScience
000007495 700__ $$aBingen, C.
000007495 700__ $$aPiccialli, A.
000007495 700__ $$aLamort, L.
000007495 700__ $$aLefever, C.
000007495 700__ $$aYseboodt, M.
000007495 700__ $$aJonas, C.
000007495 773__ $$c46-51$$n2$$pMemorie della Società Astronomica Italiana (MemSAIt)$$v95$$y2024
000007495 8560_ $$flebinhsan.pham@ksb-orb.be
000007495 85642 $$ahttps://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.36116/MEMSAIT_95N2.2024.46
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