Participating in the COPUS network

As a participant in COPUS, you will become part of a national network sharing resources and leveraging efforts. You will have the opportunity to interact with others to promote common goals and develop joint strategies to improve the public understanding of science.

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Advantages to COPUS network participants

By participating in COPUS, you contribute to a national effort and in return, you will have opportunities to:

Communicate and collaborate at national and local levels
Improve visibility of your science programs and resources via the COPUS Web site
Enhance partnerships by forming a communication network among peers with common passions and concerns and enhanced by different perspectives and areas of expertise
Leverage existing resources by sharing best practices, tools, and content for improving public engagement in science
Facilitate local awareness of and participation in national initiatives

Expectations of COPUS network participants

Support the development of local and regional coalitions and partnerships in your area
Work with others to develop activities and programs that promote public understanding of science
Share best practices with the rest of the COPUS network
Promote the Coalition and its initiatives to others

Participants in the COPUS Network agree to the following characterization of science:

Science involves a process for testing ideas.
- Science proposes broad natural explanations for how the natural world works and tests those explanations by making observations of the natural world.
- Scientific explanations must be predictive and hence, falsifiable or testable.
Science is an intellectual and social endeavor.