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Sharing Knowledge Outside Research
Offers in Science Communication & Knowledge Transfer
Our offers in the fields of Science Communication & Knowledge Transfer prepare you to take responsibility in research as well as in society. You will acquire basic knowledge and first competencies to communicate your research and expertise outside of research and to share it with non-university target groups and stakeholders.
Our program supports you to communicate your research results to non-scientific audiences, to interest non-university actors in your own research, to use your research for complex societal issues, and maybe even to develop new ideas together with non-experts.
You will be able to reflect on goals, roles, and requirements for communicating your research to non-scientific groups and discover possible potentials of your research for knowledge transfer and/or collaboration with actors from business, society, and politics. The topic of science communication is part of our annual interdisciplinary event: Research Communication Day
Public engagement in science is part of Open Science with the goal of making research usable and understandable for non-scientific stakeholders and involving non-university partners in the research discussion.
RUB Research School developed a video series and self-learning course on Science Communication with prize-winning science journalist Kristin Raabe for the UNIC Network (on YouTube):
Science Communication Course: Part I | Why am I Communicating: Communication Goals
Science Communication Course: Part II | Who Do I Want to Address: Target Audiences
Science Communication Course: Part III | What am I Communicating: The Core Message
Science Communication Course: Part IV | Where am I Communicating: Formats and Communication Means
Science Communication Course: Part V | How Do I Communicate: Dimensions of Communication
The following video series and YouTube Channels could also be interesting:
- Video Series Science with Society – The SCISO Project (initiated by Global Young Faculty)
- YouTube Channel NaWik - Nationales Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation
- YouTube Channel DFG: Die Herausforderungen von Wissenschaftskommunikation in sozialen Netzwerken
Further information is provided by the following initiatives:
- up-to-date information & discussion portal: wissenschaftskommunikation.de
- initiative by the German research community: wissenschaft-im-dialog.de
- Scicomm-Support - contact point for addressing attacks and unsubstantiated conflicts in science communication
- Praxisempfehlungen zu kritischen Interaktionssituationen in der Wissenschaftskommunikation
- Position Paper BMFTR: Wissenschaftskommunikation
RUB supports Knowledge and Technology Transfer
WORLDFACTORY of Ruhr-Universität Bochum helps scientists turn research into practice by connecting them with society and business.