Science communicators exchange ideas and knowledge

Jun 2, 2017
More than 100 science communicators from numerous organisations met in Garching, Germany for a two-day workshop on raising public awareness on research infrastructures.

On May 30-31, the bi-annual PARI workshop took place at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, near Munch, Germany. The recurring event brings together science communicators from all over Europe as well as locations such as Japan and Hawaii.

PARI stands for Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures and focuses on communicating the importance of science to society. The programme included four key notes talks as well as a wide range of presentations and panel discussions about topics such as social media, crisis communication, raising funds, outreach to schools and public audiences, to name a few.

The BrightnESS communicators of Work Package six represented the project with participants from ESS, ESS Bilbao, the Budapest Neutron Centre and the Danish Technological Institute.       

Photo, from left: Alexandra Schmidli from ESS, Sira Cordon from ESS Bilbao, Lenka Petkova and Ute Gunsenheimer from ESS, Margit Fabian from BNC and Rikke Nielsen from DTI.

Partners: 
BNC, DTI, ESS, ESS Bilbao