MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe

The MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe (ESE) aims to promote scientific projects created by children and young people around the world through an exhibition in a multi-cultural environment, while allowing the participation of institutions willing to assist young people in their projects.

The programme of the ESE consists of a variety of activities: the exhibition of projects, cultural and scientific visits, leisure activities, workshops, animation and conferences.

Participation at ESE is an opportunity to:

  • Provide a space to highlight the efforts and interests of youngsters, teachers and leaders in research, science and technology innovation, enhancing their motivation and contributing to their personal development.
  • Establish relationships with other institutions with similar goals through the development of scientific, technical and social projects to exchange ideas and create actions according to the needs of today’s world, for the benefit of industry, the educational sector and society at large.
  • Be represented at an international level through the young peoples’ projects, allowing for the spreading of knowledge amongst the main target audience (i.e. young people).
  • Promote Scientific Culture in a multi-cultural environment, allowing the sharing of experience and good practice as well as achieving higher-standard scientific activities.

History of ESE

MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2026 (ESE 2026)
Dates: 2026
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Manto Circular Lab
Place: Mantua, Italy
Website: https://ese2026.milset.org
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2024 (ESE 2024)
Dates: 15-21 July 2024
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Richmond Park Education
Place: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Website: https://ese2024.milset.org
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2022 (ESE 2022)
Dates: 24-30 July 2022
Organisers: MILSET Europe, MILSET Romania, Cygnus
Place: Suceava, Romania
Website: https://ese2022.milset.org
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2018 (ESE 2018)
Dates: 16-22/07/2018
Organisers: MILSET Europe, FZT
Place: Gdynia, Poland
Website: https://ese2018.milset.org
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2016 (ESE 2016)
Dates: 09-15/07/2016
Organisers: MILSET Europe, CIRASTI
Place: Toulouse, France
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2014 (ESE 2014)
Dates: 09-12/09/2014
Organisers: MILSET Europe, AMAVET
Place: Zilina, Slovakia
Website: https://ese2014.milset.org
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2012 (ESE 2012)
Dates: 02/07/2012 – 08/07/2012
Organisers: MILSET Europe, OODI, MGDD(U)T, BPHR
Place: Tula, Russia
Website: https://ese2012.milset.org
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2010 (ESE 2010)
Dates: 27/06/2010 – 04/07/2010
Organisers: OODI, MILSET Europe
Place: Moscow, Russia
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2008 (ESE 2008)
Dates: 13/07/2008 – 20/07/2008
Organisers: MILSET Europe, TIT Kossuth Klub
Place: Budapest, Hungary
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2006 (ESE 2006)
Dates: 16/07/2006 – 23/07/2006
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Magma
Place: Tarragona, Spain
Website: https://ese2006.milset.org
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2004 (ESE 2004)
Dates: 08/07/2004 – 15/07/2004
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Landesverband Sachsischer Jugendbildungswerke e.V. (LJBW)
Place: Dresden, Germany
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2002 (ESE 2002)
Dates: 14/07/2002 – 21/07/2002
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Asociacia pre mladez, vedu a techniku (AMAVET)
Place: Bratislava, Slovakia
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2000 (ESE 2000)
Dates: 16/07/2000 – 23/07/2000
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Jeunesses Scientifiques de Belgique (JSB)
Place: Charleroi, Belgium
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 98 (ESE 98)
Dates: 17/08/1998 – 23/08/1998
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Associacco Juvenil de Ciencia (AJC)
Place: Coimbra, Portugal
MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 96 (ESE 96)
Dates: 15/07/1996 – 19/07/1996
Organisers: MILSET Europe, Asociace pro mladez, vedu a techniku (AMAVET)
Place: Prague, Czech Republic

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Mantua

Mantua, city, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy. The city is surrounded on three sides by lakes formed by the Mincio River, southwest of Verona. It originated in settlements of the Etruscans and later of the Gallic Cenomani. Roman colonization began about 220 bce, and the great Latin poet Virgil was born at nearby Andes in 70 bce. In the 11th century, Mantua became a fief of Boniface of Canossa, marquis of Tuscany. After the death of Matilda of Tuscany in 1115, the city secured a communal government, and during that period (1167) Mantua joined the Lombard League (an alliance of northern Italian towns) against the policies of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. The Bonacolsi family gained control of Mantua in 1276. In 1328 the Bonacolsi were driven out by the Gonzagas, under whom the city enjoyed a long period of political prestige and cultural splendour that endured until the 17th century. The Gonzagas’ rule of Mantua ended in 1707, when the city became a fief of the Austrian Habsburgs’ empire and was heavily fortified as the southwest corner of the imperial “Quadrilateral.” Napoleon took the city after a long siege in 1797, and Mantua was dominated by the French until it was returned to Austria in 1814. Mantua contributed to the cause of the Risorgimento (movement for national independence) and was joined to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866.

At the centre of the city stands its cathedral, which was rebuilt in the 16th century after designs by Giulio Romano. The vast ducal palace, also called the Reggia of the Gonzagas, stands opposite the cathedral. Its apartments contain many valuable works of art. The Church of San Andrea (begun 1472), which shares the privileges of the cathedral, was designed by Leon Battista Alberti. Other notable churches include the restored Rotonda of San Lorenzo (1082) and the churches of San Sebastiano (1460–70) by Alberti and of San Francesco (1304). Secular landmarks include the Castello di San Giorgio (1395–1406) by Bartolino da Novara with frescoes by Andrea Mantegna; the immense ducal palace (begun c. 1290); the nearby Palace of Te (1525–35), designed by Romano; the 13th–15th-century Ragione Palace; and numerous other palaces and mansions. The city’s cultural institutions include the Accademia Virgiliana, containing a Scientific Theatre designed by Antonio Bibiena (1769); the valuable library, founded in 1780 by the Austrian empress Maria Theresa; and the State Archives. The houses of the artists Andrea Mantegna and Giulio Romano have been preserved. In 2008 Mantua was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Mantua’s economy is primarily concerned with the processing and shipping of agricultural products. The city is a centre of road, rail, and water transportation; its industrialization increased after World War II, and the population grew rapidly. Pop. (2006 est.) mun., 47,671.

Italy

Italy, country of south-central Europe, occupying a peninsula that juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy comprises some of the most varied and scenic landscapes on Earth and is often described as a country shaped like a boot. At its broad top stand the Alps, which are among the world’s most rugged mountains. Italy’s highest points are along Monte Rosa, which peaks in Switzerland, and along Mont Blanc, which peaks in France. The western Alps overlook a landscape of Alpine lakes and glacier-carved valleys that stretch down to the Po River and the Piedmont. Tuscany, to the south of the cisalpine region, is perhaps the country’s best-known region. From the central Alps, running down the length of the country, radiates the tall Apennine Range, which widens near Rome to cover nearly the entire width of the Italian peninsula. South of Rome the Apennines narrow and are flanked by two wide coastal plains, one facing the Tyrrhenian Sea and the other the Adriatic Sea. Much of the lower Apennine chain is near-wilderness, hosting a wide range of species rarely seen elsewhere in western Europe, such as wild boars, wolves, asps, and bears. The southern Apennines are also tectonically unstable, with several active volcanoes, including Vesuvius, which from time to time belches ash and steam into the air above Naples and its island-strewn bay. At the bottom of the country, in the Mediterranean Sea, lie the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.

The capital is Rome, one of the oldest of the world’s great cities and a favourite of visitors, who go there to see its great monuments and works of art as well as to enjoy the city’s famed dolce vita, or “sweet life.” Other major cities include the industrial and fashion centre of Milan; Genoa, a handsome port on the Ligurian Gulf; the sprawling southern metropolis of Naples; and Venice, one of the world’s oldest tourist destinations. Surrounded by Rome is an independent state, Vatican City, which is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church and the spiritual home of Italy’s overwhelmingly Catholic population. Each of those cities, and countless smaller cities and towns, has retained its differences against the leveling effect of the mass media and standardized education. Thus, many Italians, particularly older ones, are inclined to think of themselves as belonging to families, then neighbourhoods, then towns or cities, then regions, and then, last, as members of a nation.

The intellectual and moral faculties of humankind have found a welcome home in Italy, one of the world’s most important centres of religion, visual arts, literature, music, philosophy, culinary arts, and sciences. Michelangelo, the painter and sculptor, believed that his work was to free an already existing image; Giuseppe Verdi heard the voices of the ancients and of angels in music that came to him in his dreams; Dante forged a new language with his incomparable poems of heaven, hell, and the world between. Those and many other Italian artists, writers, designers, musicians, chefs, actors, and filmmakers have brought extraordinary gifts to the world.

Mantua Circular Lab

We are a social promotion association that operates in the field of research, innovation and skills development, with particular attention to the green sector and young people, a laboratory for creative circular experiments of the future.

We identify as reference areas: the environmental field, pursuing the enhancement and protection of natural resources. We also promote green strategies in the context of the circular economy with new digital solutions, intervening in the social field, encouraging collaboration between local actors and the promotion of employability, also at an international level. We intervene in cultural and artistic fields, creating multidisciplinary projects.

We believe in a strong sense of educational awareness of the boys and girls we work with so that they develop widespread environmental awareness, which translates into responsible behavior in every activity and choice.

More information on: https://www.mantocircularlab.com/

MILSET Europe

MILSET Europe is a European non-governmental, non-profit and politically independent youth organisation, which aims at developing scientific culture among young people through the organisation of science-and-technology programmes, including science fairs, science camps, congresses and others activities of high quality.

Mission

MILSET supports its member organisations to engage youth in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and the arts (STEAM) through motivation, cooperation, collaboration, and networking.

Vision

Inspiring youth through science and technology initiatives.

Objectives

  • to support European and international cooperation between regional and national associations, particularly in the form of exchanges of young people between MILSET Europe member and partner organisations;
  • to encourage cooperation amongst young scientists on a European level, promoting the idea of a United Europe;
  • to aid member organisations through the development and organisation of international seminars, training and conferences and by representing them on supranational and international bodies such as the European Commission;
  • to stimulate the development and organise scientific and technical educational activities for young people and children such as Science Fairs, international meetings, youth congresses, summer camps, conferences, study trips, training courses and all activities helping to promote exchanges among youth of all countries, including young scientists;
  • to motivate young people to get interested in science, and to help educators working in this field worldwide;
  • to cooperate at global level within MILSET with organisations sharing the same objectives.
© MILSET Expo-Sciences Europe 2026 is an event of the International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science & Technology in Europe (MILSET Europe), realised by Manto Circular Lab.