Main objective of our proposal is contributing to the reinforcement of public recognition of researcher as profession. The proposed events are organized on Friday 28.9.2012 in renewed program that consists of experiments, workshops, presentations from various science disciplines, researchers’ rock bands, which red line is promoting importance of researchers as profession for society ...all with festive and fun character. The target audience of proposed events, foreseen in an informal and attractive way, in which whole families can take part in, is the public at large, from youngest one to elder citizens. Intensive awareness campaign, which embraces also each year’s research of change in public perception after 28.9.2012, is important tool for strengthening of public recognition of researchers and to measure the impact of RN activities. All activities proposed aim at offering the public at large an opportunity to directly meet researchers in a relaxed atmosphere, with »European corner« in the heart of every event's location, information on EC care for researchers and EU material and information how young people can become researchers, will be provided by European Commission's Europe Direct Maribor, Slovenian Research Agency and Ministry for Science and Technology. Visitors will participate in interesting experiments, workshops in cooperation with researchers. Also the secondary school pupils that will get highest scores at the regional competition of the research initiative “Youth for Advancement of Maribor” will cooperate as well. They will perform RN12 program, side by side with professional scientists with great opportunity to explore their possibilities of developing the real scientific, researchers’ career with support of European Commission and national funders. Researchers will play on their own concert and keep company with visitors in late night hours of RN, their own Autumn Festival.