Informing, surprising, and imparting scientific knowledge via web video – that’s the idea of Fast Forward Science! Scientists, filmmakers, students, artist and communicators: everyone can participate in this science video competition with a short clip. The competition has three categories: ‘Substance’, ‘Scitainment’, and ‘Vision’.
Fast Forward Science aims at promoting excellent web videos in science communication. An exalted jury of scientists, video artists and communicators ranks the videos in each category by evaluating its content, understandability, ability to entertain and producing quality. Fast Forward Science is a joint project of Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Stifterverband der Deutschen Wissenschaft and is sponsored by ZEISS.
The Hochschulwettbewerb is a communication challenge for young scientists from all research areas. Open to college and university students, PhD students and young scientists from all research areas, competitors are asked to design projects on the topic of the current German Science Year: Working Life of the Future. The challenge is twofold: On the one hand competitors must show the value of science for society in an interactive way and on the other they must present research results related to the working life of the future understandably.
What constitutes a coherent and successful presentation? How can one improve one’s self-confidence on stage and which methods are most effective for comprehensive presentations? Presentations are becoming increasingly important in our daily school life and everyday work.The project Jugend präsentiert provides training, concepts and teaching materials to enhance and impart presentation skills, focused on the science subjects. Students benefit from the materials applied in class and can participate in the nation-wide competition. The annual competition on presentations in science offers students the opportunity to practice their presentation skills beyond school. In 2015, more than than 600 candidates competed with Jugend präsentiert. Students, aged 12 to 19, conducted their presentations on a common theme at regional qualifying rounds and at the final in Berlin in September 2015. During the process of the competition the students also received training on presentation skills from by professional rhetoric coaches.
A team of scientists of the department of rhetoric at the Universität Tübingen develop and provide the materials for teacher training days and teaching resources. The project Jugend präsentiert is initiated by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung in cooperation with Wissenschaft im Dialog.
Since 2000, each year, Wissenschaft im Dialog and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research jointly proclaim the Science Year, aiming to shed light on the major challenges of our society from a scientific perspective. Wissenschaft im Dialog runs several activities as parts of the 2018 Science Year, for instance the floating science center MS Wissenschaft.
