29th Open Science Meet-up: Science Communication

Wednesday 6 Dec 2023, 13:00 → 16:30 Europe/Berlin

Forum Wissen

Astrid Orth (SUB Göttingen), Birgit Schmidt (SUB Göttingen), Daniel Beucke (SUB Göttingen), Julika Mimkes (SUB Göttingen)

Science communication aims at improving public understanding and trust in research and its results and applications. Conceptionally and in practical terms, science communication has evolved from outreach and teaching to public engagement and co-creation activities in various socio-political contexts. Moreover, aspects of Citizen Science and Open Science increasingly also play a role.

In this meet-up we would like to explore the following questions:

• How can Open Science enable science communication? (e.g. building on and referencing to Open Access publications and preprints)
• How in turn, can Open Science benefit from more science communication? 
• What activities work best and what could we step up at Göttingen Campus?

We hope this sparks your interest in this exciting topic! Please get in touch if you would like to contribute a presentation or have any other suggestion.

13:00 → 13:40 Welcome & Round of introductions

13:40 → 14:20 Presentations

• Science communication in a changing landscape - Melissa Sollich
• Open Museum. Forum Wissen and its data - Sandra Potsch, Karsten Heck

14:20 → 14:50 Coffee & tea break

14:50 → 15:30 Show & Tell

• Manuel Maidorn, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, organizer of Science Slams
• Alok Daniel Weßel, Scientists for Future
• Any volunteers? (please get in touch)

15:30 → 16:15 Discussion & Hands-on

Possible question for the discussion:

• Role of communication channels
• Development of Open Science media/material for science communication
• Links to OS publications validate articles of newspapers' science editors
• requirements from science communication towards Open Science
• translation of scientific results: lay abstracts, science journalists

16:15 → 16:30 Summary, updates & what’s next