The event focuses on the question of how to reach people who have hitherto had little access to scientific spaces and educational opportunities – in particular, groups with limited educational opportunities, socially disadvantaged people and those affected by poverty, as well as people from migrant backgrounds. It explores how science communication can not only impart knowledge but also enable social participation. The discussion will also address structural barriers and new opportunities for participatory research.
What formats, partnerships and institutional reforms are needed to ensure that research does not merely discuss people, but is developed in collaboration with them? And what contribution can adult education, citizen science and civic engagement make towards making science more inclusive, democratic and socially relevant? The initiatives represented on the panel will highlight various approaches to this end.
Panel guests
Axel Dietrich is the founder and CEO of the content production company vrisch, which is home to the ‘shrine’ research project. This project provides a platform that uses artificial intelligence and extended reality (XR) to empower migrants to preserve and share their life stories.
Claudia Ertl heads the arts and cultural outreach programme at Eggenberg Castle’s State Rooms & Park, the Old Gallery, the Coin Cabinet and the Archaeology Museum at the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Styria. Twenty museums and a zoo there organise a multifaceted outreach and education programme.
Karin Liebhart is the academic director of the Institute for Conflict Research and leads the Sparkling Science project CHANGE. The political scientist and ethnologist’s main areas of research include political communication, conflict research, politics of memory and social inequality.
Annette Sprung conducts research and teaches as Professor of Migration and Education at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Graz. Her research and teaching focus on adult education and migration, diversity/intersectionality, ageing, political education, active citizenship and participatory research.
Presenter: Xaver Forthuber (Ö1)
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