Science in dialogue
Science in Dialogue (WiD) |
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purpose | Science communication |
Chair: | Antje Boetius |
Executive Director: | Markus Weißkopf |
Establishment date: | 2000 |
Seat : | Berlin |
Website: | www.wid.de |
Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD) is a non-profit company founded in 2000 by the leading German science organizations. Wissenschaft im Dialog organizes dialog events, exhibitions or competitions and develops new formats for science communication . The goal pursued by the science organizations with the joint initiative is to strengthen the dialogue between science and society, including on controversial research topics. The establishment of Science in Dialogue at the initiative of the Donors' Association for German Science . Science in dialogue is significantly supportedby the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In addition to the scientific organizations, foundations have been added as partners and shareholders in recent years. The company is based in Berlin.
Main focus of work and development
The Science in Dialogue initiative is committed to the discussion and exchange of research in Germany and implements cross-organizational communication for German science. In the first ten years, the focus of WiD's work was primarily on broad communication, i.e. projects such as exhibitions, festivals or competitions that addressed the general public and offered information about current scientific research.
New social challenges and trends have led to a strategic reorientation of WiD : The focus today is more on an open dialogue with citizens on socially relevant and controversial research topics. In addition, WiD has developed into a platform for the exchange of experiences between professional communicators from science and, as a provider of further training, promotes the willingness and ability of scientists to explain their research work to interested laypeople. WiD also develops, accompanies and evaluates new formats for science communication.
The projects of Wissenschaft im Dialog include, for example, the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft, the student competition "Youth presents", the web video competition Fast Forward Science, the specialist conference for science communication, the European student parliaments, the citizen science platform "Citizens create knowledge", the crowdfunding platform Sciencestarter or the school projects Junior Science Café and Make your School.
In order to network the actors in science communication in Germany, WiD and the Federal Association of Higher Education Communication founded the Siggener Kreis .
Structure and bodies
The office of the Initiative Wissenschaft im Dialog has the legal form of a GmbH . Its bodies are the shareholders' meeting and the steering committee .
As a rule, the presidents and chairmen of the scientific organizations involved in the gGmbH are represented at the shareholders' meeting. It determines the guidelines and strategic goals of the work of Wissenschaft im Dialog .
The steering committee includes representatives of the scientific organizations, one representative each from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Donors' Association for German Science, as well as the chairman of the committee. The steering committee decides on the activities of the company and advises and supports the management in realizing the activities.
Shareholder
- Working group of industrial research associations "Otto von Guericke" (AiF)
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)
- acatech German Academy of Science and Engineering
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- German Association of Technical and Scientific Associations (DVT)
- Fraunhofer Society
- Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors (GDNÄ)
- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers
- University Rectors' Conference (HRK)
- Klaus Tschira Foundation
- Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences
- Leibniz Association
- Max Planck Society
- Donors' Association for German Science
- Science Council
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See also
Web links
- 10 years of science in dialogue (PDF; 4.1 MB)
- The perspective paper "Science in Public Space - Interim Assessment and Perspectives for the Next Decade" (PDF; 668 kB)
- The PUSH memorandum to kick off the Science in Dialogue initiative (PDF; 58 kB)
- Guidelines for good science PR
- Wissenschaftskommunikation.de