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Coalescing at ESOF2024: watch the video interviews
Three thousand five hundred participants, more than 130 talks and dozens of keynotes, workshops and side events: the ESOF2024 conference held in Katowice, Poland, from 12 to 15 June 2024, was a huge success. EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial meeting designed to offer a platform for interdisciplinary and [...]
How can science communicators contribute when a crisis emerges?
During ESOF2024, members of COALESCE facilitated a workshop to present and discuss the first version of the Crisis Navigator, a living guidebook that offers ideas and suggestions for reflective best practice to increase trust in science, tackle misinformation and assist citizens in making sense of crises. It aimed at gathering [...]
Debating science communication’s role in addressing existential threats
How can we communicate science more effectively to help address challenges such as antibiotic resistance and pandemics? It’s a question that gets to the heart of what the new European Competence Centre for Science Communication is setting out to achieve and also formed the focal point at a debate at [...]
Navigating urgent societal challenges: the role of science communication
COALESCE Press Release Katowice, Poland ⸳ 12 June 2024 The COALESCE consortium, funded by the European Commission, has published a policy brief with recommendations for how science communication can more effectively address urgent societal challenges such as climate science and the rapid development of artificial intelligence. The policy brief was [...]
SciComm Conversations: “Using AI as Science Communicators and Journalists”
Listen to "Using AI as science communicators and journalists. Guest: Mohamed Elsonbaty" on Spreaker. Transcript Achintya Rao [00:09]: Hello and welcome to SciComm Conversations. My name is Achintya Rao. I am the Communications and Engagement Manager for COALESCE and your host for this episode. In our first season of SciComm [...]
SciComm Conversations: “Engaging the Public on Artificial Intelligence”
Listen to "Engaging the Public on Artificial Intelligence. Guest: Jennifer Edmond" on Spreaker. Transcript Achintya Rao [00:07]: Hello and welcome to SciComm Conversations. My name is Achintya Rao. I am the Communications and Engagement Manager for COALESCE and your host for today’s episode. In our first season of SciComm Conversations, [...]
The value of informal science communication
Last week, COALESCE published our first policy brief, on “Excellent science communication for society at large through informal activities”. It draws together (a) the main conclusions from the eight projects that feed into COALESCE pertaining to the role of informal science-engagement organisations and (b) the outcomes of a series [...]
Shaping European science through dialogue
In March, COALESCE was invited to a number of key conferences in Europe. Below are some of the highlights. Science Europe – which represents major European organisations that fund and perform research – organised a high-level conference in Brussels, Belgium, with Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Fund for Scientific Research [...]
Welcome to new national and regional hubs
COALESCE national and regional hubs are organisations across Europe, including COALESCE consortium partners, which form a network at the heart of COALESCE and serve as the physical venues for COALESCE activities. Earlier this year, we welcomed five new N&R hubs into the COALESCE family, learning more about their work during [...]
SciComm Conversations: “Generative AI and Science Communication: Opportunities and Challenges”
Listen to "Generative AI and Science Communication: Opportunities and Challenges. Guest: Mike Schäfer" on Spreaker. Transcript Achintya Rao [00:09]: Welcome to SciComm Conversations, my name is Achintya Rao. I am the communications and engagement manager for COALESCE and your host for today’s episode. In our first season of SciComm Conversations, [...]
