Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures

Session

Plenary talk

18 Jun 2015, 14:00

European Southern Observatory (Garching (near Munich), Germany)

57. CERN - Education and Outreach

Rolf Landua (CERN)

18/06/2015, 14:50

Talk

CERN’s communication strategy goes beyond publishing scientific results. Education and outreach are equally important ways of communicating with the general public, and in particular with the young generation. Over the last decade, CERN has significantly increased its efforts to accommodate the very large interest of the general public (about 300,000 visit requests per year) by ramping up its...

55. Challenges and goals of outreach and communication of research at large scale infrastructures

Prof. Anke Rita Kaysser-Pyzalla (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

19/06/2015, 12:30

Talk

Research is a long term investment of a society into its future and funding has to be acquired in a hard competition: not only within the sciences, but as well in competition with other important societal challenges like environmental issues, economic and social problems or international obligations. Communication and outreach are therefore essential. We have to transport not only specific...

52. Of Dogs and Cats – The Communication Challenge for Scientists and Politicians

Claus Madsen (ESO)

18/06/2015, 14:20

Communication to target groups

Talk

Communication between science and politics is often marred by a lack of cultural and 'systems' knowledge between the two areas of activities. For scientists it means targeted communication about a long established, well-tested, fact-based and logically robust system of inquiry to a highly dynamic environment in which decision-taking is influenced by many non-scientific factors and with norms...

49. Stakeholder Engagement in Big Science

Dr John Womersley (STFC)

19/06/2015, 09:00

Talk

I will describe STFC’s programme of public engagement and stakeholder activities, and how we have developed them over the past few years them as part of an overall strategy to generate a positive attitude and support towards big science projects and investment in major research infrastructures in the United Kingdom.