The Antalya Science Centre Solution Declaration
At COP31, The Antalya Science Centre Solution Declaration is being launched with a call to strengthen science centres as places where people can understand, imagine and create better futures.
The declaration presents an expanded science, innovation and flourishing agenda, connecting climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals with human wellbeing, societal resilience and the needs of future generations.
At its heart is an ambition for “flourishing lives, flourishing minds and a flourishing planet”. Alongside reducing footprints and increasing positive handprints, it calls for creating positive brainprints: the ideas, values, understanding and inspiration that shape how people think and act.
Science centres can also help address mental pollution, including misinformation, polarisation and information overload, by providing trusted spaces for evidence, dialogue and discovery. In an age of artificial intelligence, they can cultivate curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, empathy and wisdom.
The declaration calls for international collaboration and new ways to assess science centres’ contribution, supporting their role as solution providers for the SDGs and the agenda that follows them.
The Antalya Science Centre Solution Declaration
At COP31, The Antalya Science Centre Solution Declaration is being launched with a call to strengthen science centres as places where people can understand, imagine and create better futures.
The declaration presents an expanded science, innovation and flourishing agenda, connecting climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals with human wellbeing, societal resilience and the needs of future generations.
At its heart is an ambition for “flourishing lives, flourishing minds and a flourishing planet”. Alongside reducing footprints and increasing positive handprints, it calls for creating positive brainprints: the ideas, values, understanding and inspiration that shape how people think and act.
Science centres can also help address mental pollution, including misinformation, polarisation and information overload, by providing trusted spaces for evidence, dialogue and discovery. In an age of artificial intelligence, they can cultivate curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, empathy and wisdom.
The declaration calls for international collaboration and new ways to assess science centres’ contribution, supporting their role as solution providers for the SDGs and the agenda that follows them.