"Main concept of the project is based on the very positive experience from the events in 2007,2008,2009 and 2010 and on the fact, that year 2010 became a real breakthrough in the RN activities in Slovakia from the terms of public perception, participation of the researchers. 2011 project proposal is based on further increase of importance of covering the whole territory of Slovak Republic. the project consist of right mix of main venues in big shopping centres and places like Slovak National Museum as well as observatories, which still attract a lot for people. Thanks to our concept – bringing researchers to the place, where they meet large number of general public – we are able to plan the very ambitious but realistic quantitative targets for 2011 event (99,000 participants, 700 participating researchers, 600,000 people reached via awareness campaign). There however remains room for improvements and the project RN2011SVK differs from the previous years under the following aspects, which at the same time represent also specific targets of the project: even more focus on ""researchers as ordinary people""; regionalization of the events in 2011 project having now three local science shows;further diversification of the awareness campaign;stronger than ever EU dimension of the project. As to the programme of activities, it will be built around the following axes:• Science shows and interactive experiments and demos of science• Science cafés and interactive workshops/discussions• Interactive exhibition about the famous Slovak scientists “Masters of the Mind” in the area of Chemistry (because of International Year of Chemistry)• Three nation-wide competitions serving as strong awareness campaign instruments:• Small quizzes within the events “motivating people” do attend all of the prepared stands, events, lectures, discussion and win nice prizes for collecting prove of their participation in the individual parts of the event• Science party on the Friday night"