Fête de la science 2025.
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The French Science Festival, a major nationwide event devoted to science, technology and innovation, will take place from 3 to 13 October 2025 across mainland France, in the French overseas territories and abroad.
The 2025 Science Festival will explore the nature, or natures, of intelligence.
The theme of the 2025 Science Festival is "Intelligence".
Every day, reports in the news talk about the latest achievements and the spectacular development of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as its potential dangers. The focus of fierce global competition, AI is permeating every field, opening the doors to a new revolution. Having become more "intelligent" than humans, could machines one day surpass them? But what kind of intelligence are we talking about?
For a long time, intelligence was seen as a human attribute. At the beginning of the 20th century, the notion of intelligence became something more palpable, almost mathematical, with the introduction of the concept of the intelligence quotient. Intelligence could be boiled down to a simple number. However, the latest scientific advances show that intelligence exists in various forms and nuances. From the behaviour of cells to the astonishing capacities of plants, from the cognitive prowess of animals to the emergence of AI, the notion of intelligence manifests itself in many ways and challenges our way of thinking.
The 2025 Science Festival invites the general public to explore all the different forms of intelligence and to re-assess what it actually means to be intelligent, looking beyond humanity alone.
BRGM, partner of the event throughout France
BRGM, the French national geological survey, will be taking part in the Science Festival throughout France. Programme to follow.
