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Three, two, one. And action!

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Dear ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure
to host the DART-Symposium

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Science Communication and Communication in
Science.

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The University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Dortmund

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invited young researchers to try out new ways
of science communication.

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Could we improve as scientists?

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Can we do better when it comes to communicating
facts?

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It is amazing that scientists are now so popular
in the media!

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And I was wondering if you do see that as a
chance or maybe even as a danger

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that especially non-experts discuss science
on social media.

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You have this possibility that scientists can
address the public directly.

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And I think that it's good that there are more
shoulders

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than only the official ones.

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Like, I want to educate people.

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I need to get the society informed.

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Or maybe you also say, I would like to entertain
people.

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Because science is also fun and I can combine
it with humor

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and then get them interested.

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You know, scientific knowledge takes time.

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But in times of corona, but also in times of
climate change,

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we are under pressure, we do not have the time.

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I think the value of science communication
for democracy in society

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is increasingly recognized

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not only in the media or by myself, but also
in the German science system.

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And in my eyes, like I mentioned a few times
in this talk,

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it is worth while that universities of applied
sciences support

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and promote science communication

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because it will also pay off in research and
teaching.

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Experts like journalists, for example, but
also experts like scientists.

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So people are really interested in science.

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This is our audience. We have to reach out
for these people.

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This is the good news. People are interested
in science.

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The bad news is this here:

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the question was how much do you trust in science
and research.

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13% answered "I trust very much." 41% answered
"I rather trust."

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And a shocking 39% said

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"I don't know whether I should trust science
or not."

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This is a number that keeps me awake at night.

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This lets me do science communication.

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Because if we are losing 40% of people of our
society for science,

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we are in deep trouble.

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We are right now in a situation in Germany
where we see that a small minority

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of people who are turning away from science

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can have a real influence on the decisions
that are made in Germany.

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What we need is scientific literacy for the
public.

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We need to explain them what scientifical thinking
is.

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Nowadays, everybody is asking for dialogue.

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So citizen science is a super big topic.

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It will be a topic for the whole next year.

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Tell a good story, so they will forward this
information.

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I'm not sure if we should really sell science,

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but I do like the idea of science role models

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because that is something that we need.

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When I think about interdisciplinary science.

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What I'm primarily interested in is enabling
people from different disciplines

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who have committed to collaborating with one
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to find some way or ways of making connection.

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We like to try to create or at least enhance

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communication dynamics in which people are
willing to be teachers when it's appropriate

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and students when it's appropriate.

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You just can't do science without being a good
communicator.

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I would say probably that is the message.

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Be humble in your communication.

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I'm very impressed

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about the various ways of presenting the work.

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So, I was in a VR setting, I was in the cinema...

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I think today there are so much possibilities.

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You can tweet, you can make videos, you can
go on stage...

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To communicate my results to companies

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is very important because just like this, we
can have an impact.

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From early on students need to be thinking
about research and the methodology

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around research and so on. It's so important,
an evidence based work.

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Which you think contains more nutrients?

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This cheeseburger here?

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Or this...

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rock?

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Alright indeed.

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No, no, of course not. It's the rock.

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And I'm very glad and proud

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that we can now go on and further to the science
communication prize

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for young researchers.

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I am glad to present these three awards today.

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And also the audience award.

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My name is Nils Corte, and I'm

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working together with Roman Senkl, my colleague
at minuseins,

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and the whole team.

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We were building the social VR infrastructure
for the

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DART-Symposium.

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I think it's a brilliant tool to meet people
anywhere in the world

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because we have the possibilities to be together
in the same room.

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And you can brainstorm very quickly because
you can share a whiteboard

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in 3D space, for example.

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And so basically it's a very, very advanced
holodeck for

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talking to students and explaining them something

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because you can use so much different media.

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It's all around you. You have a lot of space.

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You are not limited to a small room and so
on.

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So I guess it has a very large potential.

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What really is a challenge still is to prepare
and board people on.

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Because if you have people that

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are not used to like play computer games and
know how they behave in a 3D world,

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they have to learn that and this is important
for the whole thing to work.

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I guess for next generations this really will
be a point in education

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and at the university because it offers so
much possibilities.

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Hello.

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My name is Tobias Bieseke.

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I am a researcher for the FH Dortmund in the
storyLab kiU at the Dortmunder U

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the center for art and creativity.

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Our team, especially Asisa and Elisa, have
built the content

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and handed it over to minuseins and they have
created the 3D spaces

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then into Mozilla Hubs and built the interaction
possibilities.

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I like the approach to make an hybrid format,

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which is between the physical reality and the
virtual representation of reality.

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It is not enough to rebuild the reality.

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We must create a new virtual space and make
it with another passion

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and we have to use the chance to make an artistic
reality, an artificial world

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to get in touch together, to communicate, to
interact, to react, and to encounter.

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I think the first step was a good step into
the right direction,

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and we have tried to find out which possibilities
we can use in the future.

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I really like the approach and

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that the FH Dortmund really jumped into virtual
reality and tried it out

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and because I think it's always the first step
you really have to do

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before you get a get a clue of what actually
new media can do.

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And yeah, thanks a lot.