{"id":3881,"date":"2016-10-19T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:40:58","slug":"nature-india-partners-with-british-council-for-famelab-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/2016\/10\/nature-india-partners-with-british-council-for-famelab-india.html","title":{"rendered":"Nature India partners with British Council for FameLab India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a class=\"wpn-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/files\/2016\/10\/Famelab-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3885 wpn-image\" title=\"Famelab Poster\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/files\/2016\/10\/Famelab-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Famelab Poster\" width=\"321\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/files\/2016\/10\/Famelab-Poster.jpg 434w, https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/files\/2016\/10\/Famelab-Poster-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a>Nature India<\/em> is parterning with the British Council for the debut of the international\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.in\/programmes\/higher-education\/famelab\">FameLab competitions in India<\/a>.\u00a0FameLab is one of the biggest science communication competitions in the world,\u00a0where young researchers compete\u00a0to\u00a0explain a scientific concept in just three minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nature India<\/em> will support the training of the young researchers in the run up to the final competitions in India, scheduled in January 2017. Along with trainers from the UK and our science communication workshop partners Wellcome Trust\/DBT India Alliance, we will train\u00a0young scientists in presentation and communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>FameLab was started by Cheltenham Festivals, UK in 2005 and\u00a0British Council got involved with it two years later. The competitions\u00a0have now expanded\u00a0into a \u00a0global programme taking place in 27 countries with various partners. <em>Nature India<\/em> is happy to be associated with the competitions in India.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in India can apply to be part of the competitions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.in\/programmes\/higher-education\/famelab\">here<\/a>. If shortlisted, they will be invited to attend regional training sessions aimed at grooming them for the national competition. The winner of FameLab India will\u00a0travel to the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK to represent India at the FameLab International grand final.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nature India<\/em>\u00a0will be part of\u00a0all four\u00a0regional workshops\u00a0in India training the contestants\u00a0in\u00a0science writing and science communication:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 116px\" border=\"0\" width=\"574\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>South India<\/td>\n<td>27-29 November 2016<\/td>\n<td>University of Kerala<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>East India<\/td>\n<td>04-06 December 2016<\/td>\n<td>KIIT Bhubaneswar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>North India<\/td>\n<td>08-10 December 2016<\/td>\n<td>IIT Delhi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West India<\/td>\n<td>13-15 December 2016<\/td>\n<td>IIT Bombay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the run up to the competitions, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.britishcouncil.org.in\/category\/science-communication\/\">here<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Nature India<\/em>&#8216;s guest blog series on the British Council website that hopes to get the attention of all budding science communicators.<\/p>\n<p>So come, join the fun of talking science!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature India is parterning with the British Council for the debut of the international\u00a0FameLab competitions in India.\u00a0FameLab is one of the biggest science communication competitions in the world,\u00a0where young researchers compete\u00a0to\u00a0explain a scientific concept in just three minutes.&nbsp; <a href=\"\/indigenus\/2016\/10\/nature-india-partners-with-british-council-for-famelab-india.html#more-3881\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/2016\/10\/nature-india-partners-with-british-council-for-famelab-india.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":3885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161431,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-communication","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}