Science slam
A Science Slam (also Science Slam ; German: Science competition; English Science Slam ) is a scientific oral presentation Tournament (also Science Slammer) present in which scientists their research topics within a specified time to an audience. The focus is on the popular science communication of scientific content; the assessment is made by the audience. In addition to the scientific content, the comprehensibility and entertainment value of the lecture are also assessed. The Science Slam is a hybrid event due to its novel combination of a scientific lecture, a sporty, competitive nature and entertainment elements .
format
The speakers are predominantly young scientists. Within ten minutes you present your own research topics in popular scientific language. The audience then evaluates the lecture (usually using points cards or length of applause) according to the above criteria and selects a winner. The prize to be won is usually only symbolic (for example the "golden brain" in Braunschweig or Münster ).
One of the aims of a science slam is to promote the communication skills of young scientists. In addition, an interest in various scientific topics should be aroused in a lay audience. In this way, science slams form a branch of science communication .
The model of the science slams is the format of the literary lecture competition Poetry Slam . The format was introduced in Darmstadt at the end of 2006 by the poetry slammer and comprehensibility researcher Alex Dreppec , and from 2008 it was recorded and distributed by Markus Weißkopf (at that time the Braunschweig House of Science ).
The science slam lecture form is considered a contemporary phenomenon. Theoretical or empirical studies on its effects on knowledge transfer are hardly available.
A related format is the FameLab , in which the participants only have three minutes and are judged by a jury.
distribution
Germany
The first Science Slam took place in Darmstadt at the end of 2006 , and other cities followed in the next few years. Regular slams have been taking place in Germany in the Braunschweig House of Science since June 2008 . Further slams have developed in several German cities since 2009. Currently (as of April 2016) around 58 regular science slams are taking place all over Germany.
Science-Slam.com (LUUPS Verlag) organizes the largest science slams in Germany with up to 1300 visitors in Mainz, Leipzig, Berlin, Stuttgart and Munich as well as the Physikalische Verein in Frankfurt with 1250 visitors.
The world's largest science slam with 4600 visitors took place at the end of 2018, organized by Science-Slam.com (LUUPS Verlag) in the RheinMain CongressCenter Wiesbaden.
German championships
German-language championships in the Science Slam have been held annually since 2010. Since 2012, the final has been preceded by four preliminary decisions, in which the slammers have to qualify for the final in their respective regions (north, east, south, west).
| year | place | Preliminary decisions | winner | Lecture title | subject | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Braunschweig | - | Martin Buchholz | Entropy - of cooling towers and the irreversibility of things | thermodynamics | 800 |
| 2011 | Hamburg | - | Boris Lemmer | Elementary particles - up to (s) inside the proton | Particle physics | 800 |
| 2012 | Karlsruhe | Braunschweig (north), Chemnitz (east), Ulm (south), Münster (west) | Henning Beck | Speed up your mind | biochemistry | 1000 |
| 2013 | Muenster | Göttingen (north), Magdeburg (east), Stuttgart (south), Cologne (west) | Reinhard Remfort | Serving defects | physics | 1000 |
| 2014 | Berlin | Hamburg (north), Berlin (east), Esslingen am Neckar (south), Bochum (west) | Kai hunter | A fossil to smooch | paleontology | 450 |
| 2015 | Dortmund | Göttingen (north), Leipzig (east), Erlangen (south), Bochum (west) | Martin Schrön | The dumbest farmers have the thickest potatoes? - A theoretical physicist's search for meaning | Environmental physics | 1200 |
| 2016 | Darmstadt | Hamburg (north), Dresden (east), Ravensburg (south), Cologne (west) | Johannes Kretzschmar | Frankenstein's electric car | Computer science | 1400 |
| 2017 | Ulm | Osnabrück (north), Berlin (east), Mannheim (south), Aachen (west) | Martin Werz | Friction stir welding in the kitchen | Materials science | 1500 |
| 2018 | Wiesbaden | Hamburg (north), Clausthal-Zellerfeld (east), Munich (south), Cologne (west) | Aniruddha Dutta | Stealing Weight from Steel | Materials engineering | 4600 |
| 2019 |
Leipzig
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Hamburg (north), Halle (Saale) (east), Stuttgart (south), Bonn (west) | Maxi free | The diet device | Microsystem technology |
Austria
Since November 2010, also found in Austria a regular Slam in Vienna under the title "Science Slam Vienna" instead. This is organized by the association “Die Wissenschaffer” and also recorded as a television format. The first broadcast took place on January 8, 2011 in the program of the participatory TV station Okto .
Switzerland
The first science slam took place in Switzerland at the end of November 2010. Four university locations are currently organizing this event: Bern, Basel, Friborg and Zurich.
European championships
The European Science Slam Championships have been held annually since 2014. The final is always held in the country of origin of the previous year's winner.
| year | venue | winner | Country of origin | Lecture title | subject | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Copenhagen | Martin Moder | Austria | Fruit Flies - The Annoying Life Savers | Molecular biology | 900 |
| 2015 | Vienna | Simon McGowan | Germany | Pimp my bioplast! | Bioprocess engineering | 500 |
Successful slammers
Science slammers who have won at least ten events are: Anastasia August , Henning Beck , Johannes Hinrich von Borstel , Martin Buchholz , Dong-Seon Chang , Uwe Gaitzsch , Helene Hoffmann , Kai Jäger , André Lampe , Boris Lemmer , Sebastian Lotzkat , Reinhard Remfort , Darius Rupalla , Johannes Schildgen , Benjamin Stegmann , Peter Westerhoff .
Awards
On November 30, 2011, the Science Slam was awarded the Golden Citizens' Prize of the City of Münster, endowed with 5000 euros and awarded for the seventh time, under the motto “Münster and its universities. With each other - for each other ”.
The House of Science Braunschweig is the winner of the competition "365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas", which is carried out by the location initiative " Germany - Land of Ideas " in cooperation with Deutsche Bank. As a “Selected Location”, the House of Science is the ambassador for the Land of Ideas for the establishment of the Science Slam in 2011 and represents Germany's innovation potential.
criticism
The literary critic and Germanist Magnus Klaue formulated a critique of the format from the perspective of critical theory in the FAZ in 2015 . Science slams are the contemporary academic variant of the impromptu theater . Their "mental hostility" is "an expression of indifference to work that is economically worth preserving at any price, but intellectually a burden".
Web links
- science-slam.com - Website of the LUUPS Verlag
- scienceslam.de - Website of Julia Offe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirchner, Michaela., Knoll, Thomas., Jansen-Meinen, Vanessa., Moldrzyk, Uwe., Kirchner, Michaela ,: Events in Science . 1st, new edition. innokomm Research Center, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814811-4-3 .
- ↑ scienceslam.org , accessed August 31, 2015.
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten: Rate fun and competition for the Golden Gerhin June 7, 2013
- ↑ Kleinert, Christian., Münder, Herbert .: Handbook of Science Communication . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 1-283-91363-1 .
- ↑ Bernd Käpplinger, Steffi Robak, Sabine Schmidt-Lauff: Commitment to adult education: Ethical references and democratic responsibility. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2013, pp. 257-259.
- ↑ scienceslam.org Overview of Scienceslam locations in Germany
- ↑ Grand Science Slam: "We want goose bumps on the meninges". Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Geistesblitzen, the Science Slam: Brain Research on Stage. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Titus Arnu Wiesbaden: In the end, the hard-as-steel cookieologist wins . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 25, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( online [accessed February 5, 2019]).
- ↑ scienceslam.org Information on the multi-level competition.
- ↑ The Science Slam Germany Final 2012. Accessed on August 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Science Slam 2013 ( Memento from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Original web link "scienceslam.net/de/master" defective; in the web archive: "Science Slam Master 2014". In: archive.org. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 .
- ^ Website for the 2015 Science Slam Finale. Accessed December 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Science-Slam.com: SCIENCE SLAM :: German Champion 2015 :: Martin Schrön. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ ScienceSlam Finale 2015 - winner contribution on Youtube
- ^ Website for the Science Slam Finale 2016. Accessed December 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Science-Slam.com: SCIENCE SLAM Champion 2016 :: Johannes Kretzschmar. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
- ^ Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH, Berlin | info@wid.de: Scienceslam: Ulm - German Championship in Science Slam. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Science Slam: Science quite easy. In: Südwest Presse. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
- ↑ German Science Slam Championship. LUUPS, accessed December 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Science-Slam.com: Aniruddha Dutta @ German Science Slam Championship 2018 - German Champion 2018. November 28, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Leipzig Slam German Science Slam Championship 2019. Scienceslam.com, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
- ↑ German Science Slam Championship. Scienceslam.de, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
- ↑ SWR2: German Championship in Science Slam. November 22, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 .
- ↑ In a fruit fly costume to victory in the Science Slam European final. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Star disco and plastic polonaise: Get out of the ivory tower. In: DiePresse.com. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Community Foundation awards the Community Prize 2011 / Science Slam in front of the Competence Center . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . Münster December 1, 2011 ( online [accessed April 24, 2017]).
- ↑ Prize Winner: Science Slam - Short Lectures on Popular Science ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Magnus Klaue: Science Slams: The traveling stage of science . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( Online [accessed April 13, 2020]).
