Bad News is an interactive online game which intends to unveil the underlying concepts of spreading disinformation. Players have to manipulate headlines, accuse experts of lying and rile up their Twitter followers – to win they have to become an internet troll. The game‘s goal is to increase young people’s awareness of false information and fake news and thereby improve their media literacy.
Bad News was developed by DROG, an organisation of media experts, scientists and journalists, which is committed to combatting the spread of false information. The game is designed for players from age 14 and can be integrated in school education. For children eight years and older, a junior version is available. The game has been translated into ten European languages – including German. Play it now!
BioEconomy Now! is an educational escape game in the science year 2020 | 21 - Bioeconomy. Its gameplay mechanism is based on the task cascade typical of escape games: With each task players have to transition from a fossil-fuel based economy to a sustainable biobased one.
Everybody has what it takes to be a scientist! From measuring light pollution via a smartphone app to analyzing pollution on the beach or mapping invasive mosquitoes – these are just three examples of projects in Germany where citizens collaborate with science. Citizen science invites non-professionals to support and conduct scientific research by collecting and analyzing data and bringing in their own questions.
The online platform Bürger schaffen Wissen – Citizens Create Knowledge informs about citizen science, different projects and the opportunities to participate. The platform also connects current projects to each other and seeks to increase public awareness of Citizen science. Bürger schaffen Wissen is a joint project of Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. The platform is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research; additional funding is provided by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
The main aim of the project "Die Debatte" (The Debate") is to bring in scientific perspectives into societal debates and to initiate open and informed discussions. Thus, we want to show that science has something to contribute to a broad range of topics.
The project is a collaboration between Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD), the Science Media Center Germany (SMC) and the Technische Universität Braunschweig. It is funded by the Volkswagenstiftung, the Stifterverband, the Klaus Tschira Stiftung and the Schering Stiftung.
We all dress every day - but the current fashion industry has a negative environmental footprint. The textile industry accounts for 1.2 billion tons of CO2 emissions, more than shipping and air travel combined. Our project “Hack Your Fashion” invites you to actively help shape the fashion world of tomorrow. In online and offline hackathons across Germany we develop solutions for sustainable fashion with creative minds, researchers, designers and representatives of the fashion industry.
"Hack Your Fashion" is a project by Wissenschaft im Dialog and the HTW Berlin. It is part of the Science Year 2020 – Bioeconomy, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Science communication is continually developing and changing. In addition to new tools and means of communication, there are also changing content requirements. The community is growing and becoming increasingly professional. The platform wissenschaftskommunikation.de was created to reflect on current trends and topics and to provide support for everyday work in science communication. We invite users to contribute by proposing new formats or getting involved as guest authors.
The website is a cooperation project of Science in Dialogue (Wissenschaft im Dialog), the National Institute of Science Communication (Nationales Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation) and the institute for German studies of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie). It is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) and the Klaus Tschira Foundation (Klaus Tschira Stiftung).
