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 […]
We are happy to be one of four consortium members of the Erasmus+ project SciCultureD that started in January!
The project offers an innovative 5-day program at the interface of science, art and entrepreneurship – “transdisciplinary collaboration towards a more innovative and equitable society, and sustainable environment”.
The target group of the project are young scientists, but also […]
We are happy about the publication of our article “Co-Creating the Future: The Power of Social Makerthons in Urban Innovation Ecosystems” in the pnd-rethinking planning-magazine of RWTH Aachen University. It describes Co-Creation-processes and innovative collaboration formats with concrete examples from our work within the past two years.
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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 […]
The Public Engagement Training gave an overview on trends and developments in science-society dialogues as well as benefits, challenges, barriers and goals of public communication of research projects. Furthermore concrete best practice examples of public engagement formats inpired the participants to work on their […]