15 participants between 21 and 50 years old took part in the first intensive course of the Erasmus+ funded project SciCultureD. A 5-day immersive, co-creative learning experience in Athens with facilitators and experts from Greece, Malta, Norway, England and Germany, partly physically present, partly hybridly connected. The focus was on exploring innovative educational models for sustainable […]
Since the beginning of the year, we have again been given the opportunity to hold numerous workshops in the field of Science Communication and Public Engagement. The encounters with young scientists are an inspiration and enrichment for our work. Since the beginning of the year, we have conducted eight training sessions for the University of Regensburg, […]
Greece is known for philosophy, art, history and much more. Surrounded by modern technologies, Athens faces modern challenges affecting citizens and the environment. How do ultra-modernization and urban development affect society and the education system? Which projects already exist in the field of education that have a positive impact on the local community and the green […]
2022 got off to a turbulent start for us – in a positive sense with two large, very exciting EU funding applications – the European Universities Initiative “COLOURS” and the European SciComm Center.
In addition, we continue to regularly facilitate inspiring training sessions with young scientists from all over Germany and have been a consortium member of […]
How can early career researchers communicate their research to different publics and stimulate a dialogue? We addressed this question with doctoral students from University of Bayreuth in a two-day online workshop on December 15 and 16.
The first day of the training was focused on science communication […]
The interactive english speaking online training from 3-4 November 2021 was composed of an interdisciplinary group of phd-students and postdocs of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Starting into the training on the first day they introduced themselves naming three words they connect with the “univercity of the future”. “Inclusive”, “Flexible”, “Open” and “Innovative” were […]
What is public engagement and what role does it play for successful research proposals today? We worked on these topics together with early career researchers from DESY and Hamburg University in an interactive online workshop on October 28 and 29. DESY stands for German Electron Synchrotron and is one of the world’s leading accelerator centres. The […]
The start of this years’ winter semester in Germany for us means a marathon of Public Engagement Trainings – starting with an Online-Training with young researchers of TU Dortmund.
It was an international and interdisciplinary group, we therefore held the training in English. The researchers with backgrounds from the […]
This training in Bochum was special in two different ways: After numerous online-trainings, we facilitated this training on-site in Bochum. Furthermore, the participants were not an insterdisciplinary group as it is in most of our trainings but engineers focussing on tunnel […]