DFG Science TV

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DFG Science TV is the internet television of the German Research Foundation (DFG) . Since 2008 it has presented the work of DFG-funded projects in Germany and around the world in film series made up of three-minute short films . The material for these research diaries is shot by the participating scientists themselves. The offer is completely available in German and English.

idea

The idea was developed together with Gisela Graichen, Hamburg, and Peter Prestel , Eichstätt. The concept of the "research film diaries" is unique in Germany. At DFG Science TV, the scientists hold the camera in their own hands. In this way, authentic research diaries are created from the film material on the basis of previously developed storyboards in collaboration with a professional film production company. In this way, DFG Science TV regularly informs about the status of research work , tells of obstacles and experiences of success and reports on how to proceed. The production of the short films in-house should show a personal view of the approach and working methods of every scientist. Research projects in Germany and in other parts of the world are supported.

With Science TV, the DFG is reacting to the changed user habits, especially of young people, and the growing importance of moving images on Internet platforms. With this new approach in science communication , DFG Science TV is aimed particularly at young people between the ages of 14 and 19, but also at teachers, media professionals and other viewers interested in science. In addition to the film series, the Internet site offers additional information on the projects, portraits of the scientists involved and information on studying the scientific departments involved at German universities. In addition, since the start of the second season, DFG Science TV has increasingly been using Web 2.0 features.

history

The German Research Foundation started DFG Science TV in 2008 with a pilot relay. From April to June 2008, ten research projects presented new results every week for three months. All episodes of this season are still available on the DFG Science TV website.

With the second season, which started on June 16, 2009, DFG Science TV continued the concept of “research film diaries”. After the previous call for proposals, ten selected research projects from the MINT disciplines were once again accompanied over several months.

With a relaunch on February 14, 2011, DFG Science TV was converted into a media library that archives all films made as part of the project and is to be continuously expanded with new productions.

Since May 2011, new research projects have been accompanied by weekly episodes in loose succession. The first of these projects presents the special research area ritual dynamics at Heidelberg University.

Season one projects

• Animal Invasion - What Happens When Humans Intervene in the Ecosystem ? Martin Mörtl and John Hesselschwerdt, Collaborative Research Center 454 Lake Constance littoral at the University of Konstanz
• The city of 5 million - are mega-cities the future of humanity? How do people live and survive there? Frauke Kraas , Geography Institute at the University of Cologne
• Blue Wonder - Getting to the bottom of the sea: the role of the ocean in the earth system. MARUM team from the GLOMAR graduate school from the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (Marum) at the University of Bremen
• Beton Light - How do you make heavy things light? Textile concrete opens up ways for lightweight construction. Collaborative Research Center 528 "Textile Reinforcements for Structural Reinforcement and Repair" of the Technical University of Dresden
• Sinking coasts - 10,000 years ago, people lived where waves rush today. SINCOS research group, DFG research project
• The human machine - see, hear, feel: can a robot learn from humans? " Armar III " Collaborative Research Center " Humanoid Robots " at the Institute for Industrial Applications in Computer Science (IAIM) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH)
• Endangered mountain forest - between naturalness and use: Can the needs of people and nature be reconciled? Jörg Bendix, Department of Geography at the Philipps University of Marburg , and Erwin Beck, Professor emeritus at the University of Bayreuth , research station "Estación Científica San Francisco" (ECSF) of the DFG research group 816 " Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in South Ecuador " .
• Temple maintenance - no stone for eternity: can the temples of Angkor still be saved? German Apsara Conservation Project (GACP) from the Institute for Restoration and Conservation Science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
• Lola runs - In search of the perfect two-legged running machine . Team “Nature and Technology of Intelligent Running Systems”, Chair of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich
• The supersaurs - why did the sauropods become the largest land animals on earth? Project "Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism" (DFG research group 533), project coordinator: P. Martin Sander from the Steinmann Institute for Geology , Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn

Season two projects

• Finding a Cure - Against Oblivion : How Zebrafish Help Understand Alzheimer's . C. Haass from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
• Duckstop Lake Constance - 260,000 water birds looking for food. Biologists from the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell
• Concrete well connected - fracture tests : How strong is ultra-high strength ? Institute for Solid Construction at RWTH Aachen
• Function through diversity - pioneering work in China: the largest biodiversity experiment in the world. International research team led by Helge Bruelheide from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• The wave hunters - do Einstein's gravitational waves shake the universe ? Henning Vahlbruch and Alexander Khalaidovski in Roman Schnabel's group at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Hannover and in the QUEST Cluster of Excellence
• Polar Climate Archive - Drilling in the Arctic : Climate Research for the Future. Researcher from the Institute for Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Cologne
• Giants of the Stone Age - The trail of the stones: Of dolmens , graves and their builders. Scientist at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt
• Discrete Optimizers - Many ways lead to the goal. How mathematics makes our everyday life easier. Wiebke Höhn, Marco Lübbecke and Rudolf Kellermann from the DFG research center MATHEON in Berlin
• Nature at the start - life in opencast mining : from the lunar landscape to the ecosystem . Werner Gerwin from the Technical University of Cottbus
• Love à la Darwin - do inner values ​​count? Choice of partner in view of evolution . Bernhard Fink from the Institute for Zoology and Anthropology at the University of Göttingen

Projects 2011

• The world of rituals - Scientists from the Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center “Ritual Dynamics” examine how and why rituals arise, how they change and what significance they have in different cultures? A project by the University of Heidelberg (Start: May 5, 2011)

Projects 2013

• Active micro-optics - copying nature's vision ... From mantis shrimp, human and moth eyes as well as the nationwide networked cooperation for the development of tiny optical systems based on the model of nature. Participating universities and institutes: Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) (Freiburg), Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP) (Potsdam), Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramics Technologies and Systems (IKTS) (Dresden), Fraunhofer Institute for Optical Precision Mechanics (IOF) (Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Technical University Ilmenau, Technical University Kaiserslautern, University Potsdam, University Stuttgart.

(Start: January 16, 2013)

DFG Science TV on "DFG moves"

On March 4, 2015, the media library of the German Research Foundation went online at mediathek.dfg.de. It offers over 800 films and audio files in German and English about DFG-funded research and the DFG itself. Including all films from DFG Science TV.

Awards

In May 2009, the DFG Science TV website received the intermedia-globe GOLD Award in the Web TV / Information category at the WorldMediaFestival.

See also

• Research - The magazine of the German Research Foundation

Web links

• The films of the second season of DFG Science TV - German
• The films of the second season of DFG Science TV - English
• "DFG Science TV goes into the second round" - Web tip from Spektrum der Wissenschaft, June 18, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DFG Science TV with second season on the Internet DFG press release No. 24 of June 16, 2009
2. ↑ DFG Science TV back on the road! ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release on the relaunch of DFG Science TV from February 14, 2011 
3. ↑ The world of rituals on DFG Science TV ( Memento from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Active micro-optics on DFG Science TV ( Memento from August 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Winner of the intermedia WorldMediaFestival 2009