The Science in the City Festival takes place on the occasion of EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2022). This is the largest multidisciplinary science congress in Europe, of which Leiden is the proud host.

On Thursday 14 and Friday 15 July from 14-18h and on Saturday 16 July from 12-18h the ESOF exhibition floor in the Pieterskerk is open to everyone! Festival visitors can visit the ESOF booths of for example Johnson & Johnson, Elsevier and the Estonian Research Council. You can also see the model of the James Webb telescope.

Below are all the activities at the Pieterskerk Square: 

Wijscokar 
Spreading doubt in the year of science! Join the doubt-ific research of ZITSO about the doubts, prejudices, fears and questions that people have about science.

Hortus bicycle
Hortus' cargo bike ensures it's possible for everyone to be a plant-researcher in their own neighborhood. The colourful bike draws people in. Find out what you can experience and discover around you!

Carcheology by Olaf Mooij 
Artist Olaf Mooij has been inspired by the concept of cars for a while. He views cars as living creatures and questions the origin of this animal. Does a car come from an egg? Is car-sperm involved? These questions will be answered in the Museum of Carcheology, a cabinet of curiosities with the life cycle of a car as a main theme. 

Naturalis
Look for creatures in the street! Take a good look at the pavement under your feet, and find out how biodiverse your environment truly is. 

CARIBBEAN TIES 
Caribbean Ties is part of a research project by Corinne Hofman: CaribTRAILS. Local Caribbean communities, Carribbean and European museums, and other cultural and research institutes, were closely involved during the development of this exhibition. The exhibition shows off the large impact of Caribbean people on world history and the world as we know it. 

Chantalla Pleiter – Biodiversity in augmented reality 
During COVID, Chantalla designed an artistic project to show off the world in a different way via augmented reality.

Nano supermarket
The NANO Supermarket shows off speculative products that could soon be available in your own local supermarket, drug store or hardware store: interactive paint, medicinal chocolate, programmable wine, etc. The products are supposed to spark a debate. They can be very innovative, but also terrifying. The products serve as theoretical scenarios that can maybe help us decide on what kind of future we really want.  

Silent Swing.
Something that touches or concerns almost everyone, rhythm and melody! And not just any kind of rhythm, onethat fits with the swing movement, so that the movement gets reinforced and enhanced.

Pandemic Prevention Car 
COVID showed us many things, but one takes the spotlight: pandemics are not a thing from the distant past! De Pandemic Prevention Car will explain how a pandemic works and challenges you to prevent and fix a pandemic. Get in the headspace of the government and try to control a pandemic via this game!

Psychologylab on wheels 
Interaction with Human, Avatar and Robots. 

Mobile Planetarium (in the upstairs room of Gravensteen)
Visit this mobile, blow-up planetarium! AR and VR are no match for this planetarium. You can get an amazing experience of our universe in our own reality.
Take a seat on the pillows in the planetarium and be amazed by this interactive show.

PO BOX 71
Do you have a burning question? Do you want a real scientist or researcher to answer it? PO BOX 71 can make that happen! Ask them your question and they'll surely find an answer. You can see which questions have been asked previously here.

Gulliver’s Travels Agency
Go for walk with Leiden2022! Gulliver’s Travel Agency will provide you with many different tours and routes throughout Leiden based on many different subjects. Indonesia, poetry, and people that are over a century old; we have it all!
 

BIOS in the BOX
Non-stop screening of films and projects from all corners of science. Take a seat in the box and experience the beauty, fun and amazing side of science. At the bottom of the page you find the film schedule in the BIOS in the BOX activity. 

WORKSHOPS and more

At various places at the European Science in the City Festival, workshops will take place or artists and scientists will take you into another world for a brief moment.

• Freezing Physics – freezing and freezing - these students will perform ice cold tricks!
• Make a (real) telescope with Lego.
• I.c.m. Imaginary - Mathematics in our daily lives - see for yourself on an interactive touch screen.
• Literary Leiden - grab a chair and take a look inside a scientific book.
• Morsecodes workshop – morse and radio connections - we fall back on these when all other means of communication are lost - learn all about them under the guidance of enthusiastic radio amateurs.
• Mind drone: control a drone with your brain! - Set up the Mind drone and let your brain determine the journey.
• MorePlants – discover the world of the cucumber - a whole new perspective on vegetables.
• Magic with light - Unravel light, create new colours and works of art with light. In short: come and do magic with light! And when the sun shines, you can watch it with a Lunt, a special solar viewer.
• View on AI (Artificial Intelligence) - ask all your questions to scientists who know exactly what AI does for you, and vice versa, how you can use AI in daily practice.
• Academy of Creative and Performing Arts i.c.w. University of Leiden - musical performance.