Team:INSA-UPS France/Media
iGEM UPS-INSA Toulouse 2017
Press & Media
The 20 minutes is a daily free generalist newspaper aimed at commuters who want quick and concise information, reaching a wide audience. We appeared in the regional section of the online version of it. Thus we were pleased to reach the local inhabitants to mobilize them and make them know about science initiatives in their living area.
Coté Toulouse is a weekly free paper aiming to deliver all the local information. Once again we were pleased to reach at the local inhabitants of Toulouse to show them what the students of their city are doing and to mobilize them around the project.
La dépêche du midi is a regional daily newspaper sold in approximately 150,000 copies everyday. Thus it reaches a wide public living in a large area. This publication was an opportunity to make this audience discover our project and to tickle their curiosity to learn more.
After being interviewed by local and regional newspaper we were thrilled that Le Journal du Dimanche published an article about our project. Indeed it is a weekly national newspaper reaching around 200,000 people. This article obviously gave our team a national exposure, along with synthetic biology and the iGEM competition. We hope that this article tickled the curiosity of many french people.
Aujourd’hui en France is a national weekly newspaper gathering almost 140,000 readers every day. It emphasis the interesting regional initiatives in France, giving them more exposure. We were thus delighted to be part of these noteworthy projects.
Our project was also presented in the online version of France info which is a french radio. Some members of the team were interviewed by the journalist and it was a good practice to present our project in a popularized way with our words.
