ESTOOLS - Advances with human embryonic stem cells - Communicating science to the media and the public

• Training
• Scientific workshops
• ESTOOLS post-doc Fellowships 2008-2010
• Scientific communication
• Summer/Winter schools
• Other workshops

 

Communicating science to the media and the public

ESTOOLS, in partnership with the European Framework 6 Consortia EuroStemCell
and BetaCellTherapy, organised a workshop on advanced communication techniques in Edinburgh on 24-26 October 2007. ESTOOLS scientists from Finland, Czech Republic, Germany and the United Kingdom were among the participants, alongside their colleagues from EuroStemCell and BetaCellTherapy. Program of the event is available here.

On 3-4 April 2008, in Turku (Finland), ESTOOLS organised a second science communication educative event, a media training workshop jointly with Diak (the School of Journalism). Lectures by nationally-recognized scientists and media specialists introduced workshops where junior scientists described their research in a press conference-like event in front of 25-35 journalist students. Each journalist wrote a press release, which was corrected by scientists and used as the basis of a discussion to improve communication. The event was mainly in Finnish, with some additions in English language. Program of this event is available here. 

 

ESTOOLS plans further journalists-scientists workshops, most probably in a German- and an English-speaking environment.