India, as an important emerging economy in the world, develops fast. However, environmental problems have been shackling the sustainable development of the country since the colonial period. In this context, with good cooperation with the government, Indian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) began early to carry out environmental education for the public and played an important role in the process. Indian NGO’s practice of environmental education has gone through three stages: early exploration, rapid development and sustainable development. For the strategies of environmental education, Indian NGOs adopt different methods of environmental education for different groups, relying on various projects, which reflects its distinct characteristics of environmental education: practicing in nature to cultivate environmental awareness; setting up environmental education content according to local conditions and individual conditions; working closely with the government to promote environmental education.

One most important goal of recent science education in China is to cultivate scientific and technological youth talent and running academic competitions is an approach to achieve that goal. However, there is yet little knowledge about the effectiveness of such academic competitions conducted in China as well as what the factors relevant are. This research conducted an investigation into 644 senior high school students with participation experiences of academic competitions. The result of both descriptive and relevant analyses indicates that academic competitions held in China are working well in cultivating and selecting youth talent with high performance of scientific literacy. Several relevant factors are specified in favoring the effectiveness of academic competitions on different levels, which include ways in preparation for the competition, intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, winning awards and long duration of engagement. The author suggests that the effectiveness of academic competitions be consolidated and strengthened and further research be conducted as well.

The fusion of popular science and school education is a future trend of science popularization for youth in our country. Based on some related studies and the findings of a questionnaire survey of the Experimental Middle School Attached to Yunnan Normal University, the paper argues that the integration of popularization of campus meteorological science into school curriculum should be grounded on training students’ practical ability and paying much attention to hands-on meteorological engaging activities. It suggests that the integration of campus meteorological engagement into school education be exercised in many domains such as education concepts, curriculum design and class teaching.

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has brought new opportunities for deeply thinking on the connotation and mutual relations of differing elements of medical communication in terms of content, disseminators, channels, audiences and effects. The main body of medical communication includes medical staff, medical researchers, public health practitioners and medical humanist. Various forms of network media have become the main channels of medical communication. The effect of medical communication depends basically on the authenticity and reliability of the content. The uncertainty of epidemic-related medical risk information and communication status also affects the effect. Overload of information will weaken the communication effect.

Based on the research framework of social capital theory and the actual situation of the interview of the frontline staff of community science popularization, the community emergency science popularization mechanism is constructed from the three dimensions of community trust, community network, and community norms, and the specific connotation of the three dimensions is further discussed. At the same time, based on the actual situation of community epidemic prevention and control, Four countermeasures for community emergency science popularization are proposed: promoting the normalization of emergency science popularization; integrating community resources in order to contribute and share benefits; focusing on the participation of community residents; choosing science popularization communication channels appropriately to further improve the capacity and level of community emergency science popularization.

Science and technology museums are important science infrastructures. The evaluation is conducive to promoting the overall development of the science and technology museums. This paper establishes a comprehensive evaluation index system for science and technology museums, including 18 third-level indicators from 3 aspects of basic investment, operation performance and social impact. By using the data of national science popularization statistics and big data collected from the network, it obtained, for first time, the comprehensive evaluation ranking of the national science and technology museums. The evaluation results show that the large and super large science and technology museums perform well, and the performance of a few small science and technology museums is outstanding. The difference of development of science and technology museums in various regions of China is more obvious, and the advantages in the eastern region are obvious. The science and technology museums still need to use network technology to expand their social impact.

The science communication community believes that the front-line researchers should be encouraged to take active part in science communication activities. However, how front-line researchers understand scientific communication will directly affect their actual participation and concrete action. Investigation in front-line researchers shows that they have different dimensional demands of science communication. Concerning those demands, popularization of science, promotion of science and technology, and news publicity are three relatively mainstream ideas, which have very clear pragmatic motive. The paper analyzes the multi-dimensional influence of this pragmatism appeal on science communication action, and proposes that on the basis of respecting the multi-dimensional appeals of front-line researchers, they should be encouraged to carry out multi-level science communication practice in combination with the concrete reality, so that it would be of great benefit to the healthy development of science communication in China.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the traditional management mode of “exhibition-viewing-listening-teaching” and the matching exhibition and teaching methods adopted by the science and technology museums have been partially or completely replaced by the technological functions of the Internet. Therefore, the future work focus and organization form of the science and technology museums should be greatly adjusted, and the original exhibition and teaching mode should be reformed. Based on the status quo and looking into the future, the author proposes a guided exhibition and teaching mode of talent cultivation that can change the traditional way through exploration and research. This mode will realize the transformation from “traditional exhibition and teaching” to “guided training”. Specifically, it will use the exhibition as a platform to provide different training ways for the public, i.e. the training of the future science and technology reserve talents, the training of innovative talents and the training of the potential talents. And it will be a new mode of exhibition and teaching that is characteristic of being goal-oriented, well applicable, highly effective, easy to operate and so on.

School groups and families are the main groups of visitors to the museums, which makes the museum education an important bridge between formal education and family education gradually. So parent-child visiting behaviors in museums not only have a huge impact on children’s museum learning, but also may affect the collaborative education between families and schools. This paper took Shanghai Science and Technology Museum as an example to observe the parent-child interaction during their visits and the records of 32 groups of parent-child interaction behaviors were coded using software Nvivo11.0 based on the grounded theory. Finally, aiming at the problems existing in parent-child interaction behaviors, this paper proposes some strategies to promote parent-child interaction.

During COVID-19 epidemic emergency events, science short videos have played an important role in anti-epidemic in a scientific way with characteristics of timely production, efficient dissemination, diverse forms and focused knowledge. This paper analyzes the communication advantages of science short videos in COVID-19 epidemic, works out their classification and characteristics, clarifies the problems and puts forward suggestions that efforts be further made to perfect production release mechanism, strengthen coordination mechanism of media, institutions and scientists, and improve quality of contents for science short videos to take up more social responsibilities.