Broadcasting science on the web

 

Europe's scientific version of YouTube has been re-launched at the Sunny Side of the Doc international marketplace for documentaries.

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AthenaWeb is an all-in-one web-workstation for science communicators to broadcast their films, build contacts, promote their businesses, blog ideas, publish findings, and work on their programmes and projects from anywhere.
 
The website already hosts a catalogue of some 750 digitised high-quality scientific films, serving a subscriber base of over 8,000 professionals across Europe.
 
Supported by the European Commission’s Research Directorate-General, AthenaWeb was originally created in 2005 to boost science communication and film production and distribution in the continent.
 
Since its launch, AthenaWeb has won a number of key international Awards, including the QuickTime Award for best site using QuickTime, and the Image et Science festival's Argos Award 2006 for the best European multimedia science Internet portal.
 
Changes in the media, the way people work online and pressures facing the scientific and academic worlds called for a major rethink.

AthenaWeb Take 2

The developers believe AthenaWeb – Take 2, as they like to call it, is the answer to European science’s ailing status and numbers.
 
AthenaWeb’s manager, Kathleen Van Damme, said: "AthenaWeb is not just another portal: we’ve tried to envisage the different ways our users – all of them science communicators – could benefit from better access to science audiovisuals and smarter ways of communicating their activities.
 
"And we came up with a new 'pro-zone' (for science broadcasters and film producers) with its marketplace and intelligent web workstation for managing projects, as well as a host of new tools (blogs, syndicated links) for educators and scientists in need of a place to profile their research and develop their communication skills."
 
The new-look AthenaWeb is now a video portal and online workspace aimed at all European audiovisual communication professionals in the areas of science and scientific information.
 
Contributors and users include institutions, universities, laboratories, corporations, not-for-profit organisations and the television and film industry.
 
 

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