Goals of the APEC Science Centre Impact Project

Questacon is Australia's National Science and Technolgy Centre and is coordinating the APEC Science Centre Impact Project

The APEC Science Centre Impact Project, coordinated by Questacon, Australia's National Science and Technology Centre, in cooperation with the Asia Pacific, North American and Latin American science centre/museum networks, aims to:

• strengthen the linkages and the sharing of data and best practice approaches among science centres and museums in the APEC region; in particular, to:
  • obtain, collate and analyse data concerning personal, societal, economic and policy development impacts of science centres and museums in the APEC region
  • capture and disseminate best practice approaches and innovative ways in which science centres and museums develop and deliver programs to benefit their communities
• assist science centres and museums to articulate, to governments and stakeholders, their particular assets and their contributions to community and economy interests.