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Inspiring Australia is an Australian national strategy for engagement with the sciences. Its goals include improving science communication and helping engage the Australian community with science. Inspiring Australia has rolled out a range of programs and expanded existing ones to help achieve its goals, including publishing reports from expert working groups, a Science Engagement Toolkit, Prime Minister's Prizes for Science and National Science Week.〔(Inspiring Australia ) web site〕 A similar initiative in the UK is the British Council, which runs science projects to communicate messages around exciting or topical scientific issues, focusing on science and sustainability.〔(British Council ) web site〕 ==History== In February 2010 Senator Kim Carr, the then Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research launched the Inspiring Australia report〔(Reporting ) from the Australian Science Media Centre〕 at the Australian Science Communicators conference at the Australian National University in Canberra. The report detailed 14 recommendations to fulfill four overarching principles.〔(Inspiring Australia report )〕 Inspiring Australia was included in the Australian Labor Party's Science for Australia's Future policy〔(ALP science policy fact sheet )〕 for the August 2010 federal election.〔(ABC Science News ) story〕 During the campaign the Coalition also committed to funding the new initiative.〔(Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences ) media release〕 In May 2011 Minister Carr announced that "Australians will be encouraged to study and excel in science and research through a new Inspiring Australia program in the 2011-12 Budget." The launch promised Inspiring Australia would coordinate the efforts of Australia’s research agencies, media outlets, universities, academies, professional bodies, the business sector, state-based science centres, museums, and community-based organisations. According to the departmental media release, the three-year $21 million Inspiring Australia program was designed to "help bring science to every Australian, regardless of geography, ethnicity, age or social condition".〔(Media Release ), Senator the Hon Kim Carr,10 May 2011〕 In 2012 the new Minister for Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, announced $5 million in grants for Inspiring Australia projects across the country.〔(News bulletin ) from Science In Public, a science communication agency based in Melbourne, Australia.〕 At Science Meets Parliament in September 2012, Shadow Minister for Science Sophie Mirabella referred to the Inspiring Australia program as a bipartisan initiative.〔(Speech transcript )〕 In May 2013 Science In Public, a science communication agency based in Melbourne, Australia, created a web site for Inspiring Australia, featuring "stories and ideas from Australia's science community, plus events and prize opportunities from around the country".〔 London-based ScienceRewired announced it was leading the Inspiring Australia funded development of a community component for the web site, to connect over 300 science professionals across Australia in conjunction with Australian Science Communicators and the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science.〔(ScienceRewired ) web site〕 In June 2013 the Inspiring Australia funded BIG Science Communication Summit was held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.〔http://sciencerewired.org/summit/ Summit web site〕 The summit brought together more than 200 science communicators, policy makers and others for two days. The summit was a follow-up to the March 2011 Inspiring Australia Summit held in Melbourne.〔(Questacon Annual Review 2010/11 )〕 In August 2013, in the lead up to the federal election, the Australian Academy of Science published an "Election Policy", urging "the next Australian Government" to treat the Academy's proposals as "national priorities", and recommending "strengthening the Inspiring Australia National Science Communication Strategy".〔(Science Priorities for Australia )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inspiring Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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