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Strengthening Scicomm across Europe and beyond
Like many other professions, science communicators need to be lifelong learners. Each of us will need to develop new skills over the course of our careers, whether those involve emerging communication platforms and technologies, different sciences, or even changing paradigms of science communication itself. “Our communication skills need to evolve [...]
SciComm Connections: bringing practitioners into science communication research
For the second SciComm Connections interviews, we brought together a well-established scientific institute in Poland and a network of early-career researchers from Finland. Most of the people involved in these organisations are STEM researchers, but their involvement as COALESCE Hubs shows how keen they are to improve science communication skills [...]
Time for a European Competence Framework for Science Communication Professionals
What does it look like to be a science communication professional in Europe? What kind of skills and knowledge do different types of science communicators currently need? And how will those skills and that knowledge need to have changed in 10 years' time? Those were the provocative questions asked during [...]
Curated library of high-quality resources launched to support science communicators across Europe
• In this article, "Upload resources step-by-step" (below) A library of high-quality resources providing guidance, ideas and insights to anyone who communicates science has been released in the online European Competence Centre for Science Communication. The SciComm Toolbox is a searchable library of guides, reports, and materials curated and quality-checked by [...]
SciComm Connections: “Researchers need to pay more attention to the problems identified by practitioners”
Martina Arabadzhieva represents the Bulgarian Hub and is part of the Centre for Research and Analysis (CRA). The Bulgarian Hub includes several organisations – CRA, Beautiful Science Foundation, Forum Democritus and Muzeiko. On the other side of the virtual room sits Marianne Achiam, who leads a research group of four people in science communication [...]
COALESCE launches a new series of interviews about the relationship between research and practice in science communication
COALESCE is launching a new series of articles (SciComm Connections) exploring how science communication research and practice connect – what works, what doesn’t, and what needs to change. The COALESCE Hubs, the network of institutions across Europe sharing resources being made available through the European Competence Centre for Science Communication, [...]
Find training, conferences, and more with the new Competence Centre tool
Check out the new feature on the European Competence Centre for Science Communication platform: the science communication Events page. Here you’ll find relevant conferences and other events taking place across Europe and beyond. Our Events page is also the place to find out about the science communication training offered by [...]
COALESCE Hubs given opportunity to connect with leading science communication networks in Europe and beyond
New collaborations between COALESCE Hubs and networks supporting science communication across Europe and internationally are being established. The latest Mutual Learning and Exploitation event (ML&E 6), which was held online, provided the opportunity for Hubs to hear about the work of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) Hubs and Falling [...]
Structural funding, advanced planning and engaging communities are key to crisis communication
Over 30 participants from twelve different countries gathered in Berlin to discuss “Rapid mobilisation of science communication in times of crises and misinformation”. The meeting was organised by COALESCE together with the INSPIRING ERA project and hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, on 25 March [...]
Plan ahead and have a consistent message: recommendations for climate crisis communication
A new report with guidance on how to improve science communication in the face of urgent and unexpected climate-related events has been published. The report was developed by partners involved with the EU-funded COALESCE project and is specifically designed for science communication professionals, journalists, and practitioners who work on climate-related [...]
