By capitalising on the University of Oxford’s world-class European-funded research base, together with our outstanding museums, libraries, gardens and woods, education programmes and public engagement expertise, we will create a truly inspirational multi-venue multi-disciplinary European Research night in 2017 on the theme of ‘People and Planet'.The event itself will be a city-wide programme of high quality and innovative activities utilising both University of Oxford venues in addition to busking-type activities taking place in shopping centre locations. Each venue will have its own ‘flavour’ – focusing on specific research topics and encompassing different activities - so that there will be ‘something for everyone’.By focusing on quantity and quality, we will create a much bigger impact on the audiences and participating researchers and create a long lasting legacy. Objectives: a) Organise an inspirational large-scale public engagement with research event at 8 different venues and locations that engages 10,000+ people via the live activities and 250,000+ via digital and media activities.b) Increase awareness of research and its impact on society to an audience of young people and their influencers.c) Enable at least 200 researchers, including a significant proportion of female researchers, to take part.d) Inspire young people to consider a career in researche) Share our challenges, successes and lessons learnt.Activities will include interactive stalls; games; mass experiments; science ‘demos’; a ‘living library’ for the public to take out a researcher 'on loan' and two grand finales with musical performances.The awareness campaign will facilitate even greater public-researcher engagement across digital and media platforms. This will include a fun and educational online activity for school pupils to interact with researchers.The in-depth impact assessment will utilise baseline data and both quantitative and qualitative methods.