For the CRC, science communication is much more than informing the public. We consider science communication as an interaction between science and various public stakeholders, and as a multi-cultural learning experience. Our objective is to translate and disseminate CRC research through innovative and collaborative outreach methods.
To this end, in the second funding phase we
developed a comprehensive communication platform Perspectives on Metaorganisms that displays in a narrative format the science and the people involved in the metaorganism research field, making their complex research questions accessible to the general public (PR.1, PIs Schulenburg, Bosch);
developed and evaluated an innovative Science Outreach Program that involves and connects scientists, school students and public audiences in a co-design setting (PR.2, PI Parchmann);
developed the web-based interactive learning app Meet the Metaorganism, which targets school pupils and biology students (PR.3, PI Duscher).
In the third funding phase, we will continue our work, focusing on the development of these three main elements: (i) interviews video platform “Perspectives on Metaorganism”, (ii) interactive concepts for training and knowledge dissemination, and (iii) metaorganism visualizations to enhance scientist-to-scientist communication.
