Today’s Café Scientifique session in Gozo queries the role of scientific research in today’s changing world.

Are developments like crowdsourcing, citizen science, collective intelligence and the gamification of science, as well as global collaborative projects, changing what it means to be a scientist or researcher today? Will there ever be individuals like Einstein or Newton and those eureka moments again, or is there now so much data that individual knowledge is necessarily compartmentalised?

Kristian Zarb Adami, director of the Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, will address those gathered after which an informal discussion will ensue.

■ The meeting is being held at Ta’ Philip Restaurant and Bar in Għajnsielem, at 8pm. Entrance is free. For more information visit www.meetup.com/Cafe-Scientifique-Gozo.