Science Communication...
Science Communication School and Geoscience Communication School
Science Communication School info
http://users.ictp.it/~rnoghero/training/science_communication_school/
Geoscience communication School info
http://users.ictp.it/~rnoghero/training/geoscience_communication_school/
The (Geo)Science Communication School GCS 2016 is organized by the International Centre for Teorethical Physics (ICTP) in collaboration with the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), the Contaminated Land: Applications In Real Environments (CL:AIRE) and local organization provided by island of meetings (iom).
The science communication school will run on 10-14 April 2016 in Perugia, Italy.
The geoscience communication school will run on 10-16 April 2016 in Perugia, Italy.
Over the past decades communication and outreach has become a fundamental concern of state-of-the-art research communities. The relationship between science and society has begun to change radically and communication has become a necessity. Important decisions involving scientists' research are no longer made by the scientific community but by politicians, private companies and by the media. Moreover the decisions often involve the general public whose opinion influences the politicians and the media behavior. For these and other reasons it is important to improve the dissemination of research and to convey the value of a scientific way of thinking even to those who have nothing to do with science. Furthermore it is important to improve how scientists share results with the scientific community, in order to enhance the quality of the research and to facilitate collaborations: it is necessary to learn how to make posters effective, how to communicate aims and methodologies in scientific papers and proposals, how to get projects funded. Traditional scientific training, typically does not prepare scientists and engineers to be effective communicators outside of academia.
Attending the school students will learn how to effectively convey important research results to a public of both experts and laypeople. Students will learn how:
- to write scientific papers,
- to structure poster and talks for conference presentation,
- to write proposals at international level,
- to communicate science to general public, students, and policymakers,
- to communicate through art and laboratories
- to communicate through social networks and internet
Being involved in science communication activities will allow the students to gain communication technical skills that will be useful in their wider lives and will remind the students that science is an heritage that needs to be shared as a part of our culture.
The school has the aim of offering overview and training of scientific communication skills in all its forms. The school will treat communication not only with an "educative aim" but also with a "scientific aim". The lecturers will therefore not only present an overview of science communication from a theoretical point of view, but also will offer practical activities on abstract/paper writing and poster editing, on proposal and report drafting, and on how to improve communication to policymakers. All the lectures will be accompained by laboratories and students will experience concrete activities: for example each student will present a poster at the beginning of the school and posters will be corrected and improved at the end applying what learned during the school; at the end of the school students will try to provide accurate but concise information about their science to the general public recording a short movie (famelab-like) which will be published into the facebook group of the school to get feedbacks.
For the geoscience communication school: the first 4 days will be dedicated to the science communication, the last 2 days will be focused on Geoscience communication with specific laboratories such as 3D satellite puzzles, comic books, movies and remote sensing pictures with experts explaining how to give the best ideas about Earth sciences to different types of audiences.