Siggen Circle

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The Siggen Circle is a group of science communicators , scientists and science journalists who meet annually at Gut Siggen in Holstein to discuss the further development of science communication in Germany.

history

The Siggener Circle was created on the initiative of the Federal Association for University Communication and Science in Dialog . As part of the “One Week Time” program of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS in cooperation with ZEIT Verlag , the members of the Siggener Circle came together for the first time in July 2013 without a mandate or mandate from their institution to discuss central topics and trends, opportunities and To debate the challenges of science communication. Since then, further conferences have followed at annual intervals.

Another group called the Siggener Kreis met in 2008 to promote improved collaboration between science and wiki projects. The event was entitled “New Forms of Scientific Cooperation through Collaborative Media - How Wikipedia and other Wiki projects (can) change the (human) sciences”.

Members and Activities

The Siggener Kreis sees itself as a supra-institutional working group. The members take part in the think tank personally and not as institutional representatives. The Siggen Circle is not a closed group. In addition to people who have already participated in previous conferences, new members can also join the workshop every year via a call for tenders. The current participants are listed in the documentation of the conferences.

The results of the conferences so far are the Siggen food for thought on the future of science communication in 2013 and the Siggen appeal in 2014. Based on the “Siggen appeal”, an inter-institutional working group has developed “guidelines for good science PR”.

In addition, a number of so-called Siggen impulses were published:

  • 2015: "Science communication in times of dissolution"
  • 2017: "Science needs courage"
  • 2018: "WALK THE TALK - science communication for the boss"
  • 2019: "Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Science Communication"

The suggestions of the Siggen Circle are taken up in the discussions on science communication in Germany at various points, for example by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research or in blogs and online magazines on science communication. The considerations of the Siggener Kreie are also taken up and discussed in the scientific specialist literature. The working paper of the Siggener Kreis was also the subject of a public expert discussion on the subject of “Status and Perspectives in Science Communication” of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment in the German Bundestag .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siggener circle: Siggener Thought 2013. 2013, accessed on 19 October 2017 .
  2. ↑ Siggener Kreis: Siggener Call 2014. 2014, accessed on October 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Wissenschaftskommunikation.de: Guidelines for good science PR. October 25, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Siggener Circle: Science Communication in Times of Dissolution (Siggener Impulse 2015). 2015, accessed October 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Siggener Circle: Science needs courage (Siggener Impulse 2017). 2017, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Siggener Kreis: WALK THE TALK - Chefsache Wissenschaftskommunikation (Siggener Impulse 2018). 2018, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Siggener Kreis: Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Science Communication (Siggener Impulse 2019). 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): Four theses - impulses for science communication; Keynote speech by Parliamentary State Secretary Stefan Müller ". 2014, accessed on October 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Ulrike Wolpers: PR-Boulevard: "Clay minerals help chronic kidney patients". 2014, accessed October 19, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Jens Rehländer: What science communication the Siggener Kreis wants. 2014, accessed October 19, 2017 .
  11. ^ Carsten Könnecker: Science communication in networked publics . In: Heinz Bonfadelli, Birte Fähnrich, Corinna Lüthje, Jutta Milde, Markus Rhomberg, Mike S. Schäfer (eds.): Research field science communication . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-12897-5 , pp. 453-476 .
  12. ↑ German Bundestag: October 14, 2015: Public expert discussion on the topic of “Status and Perspectives in Science Communication”. (No longer available online.) 2015, archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; Retrieved October 19, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de