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According to the design thinking approach, after the ideate phase we are now in the prototype phase. We had 2 broad ideas now for the game Treaure Hunt/Naturlehrpfad  Board game about career of a scientist We applied 9 criteria for deciding the final one: Long term effect, Fun, Partners & Sponsors, Interactiveness, Physical activity, Accessibility for kids, Scientific method and learning… [read more]

We had a wonderful time at Herrsching and presented the first poster.We had a nice view, good food and beer at the Andechs Monastery. The Ammersee was splendid in the evening. We have refined our goals and are looking forward to the prototype phase for our science game. Find more about our project and visit our page: ja.tum.de/projekte/scienciety/ [read more]

Today, the recording of the first two podcast for the podcast series Africast takes place. Our guests from the Gahnaian Student Union told us severeal interesting facts about life and studying in Ghana. The recording was done in a professional dubbing studio. Now we are looking forward to the publication of the podcast in the end of June. [read more]

As a first step, we pitched our research done about our topic (target group, competition and research, deliverable was a handout) and summarized results To warm up, we successfully mastered the “egg challenge” – build a package for an egg from waste paper so that it survives a fall from 2.5 meters As a second step, we used many creative techniques to create as much ideas as possible,… [read more]

Finally, after 4 months of project work, we decided that the time for a real group meeting had come – the first one besides the Kick-off weekend. We met at our “local branch” in Zürich, where we first did some team-finding on extremely foggy ski slopes and then two days of work and discussions about our aims, goals and the group dynamics. To sum up the outcome: We will deepen our analysis of the… [read more]

As part of the call “Multimodal Science Communication”, our team has chosen to explore the roadblocks in realizing meaningful research. At first we had focused on the interactions between science and the economy and primarily on how research is funded. After exploring diverse ideas such as crowdfunding platforms for universities, the modified lottery method of distributing grants and the influence… [read more]

We interviewed 10 people, diverse in age and education, about our identified challenges to get a first feeling about the importance of our identified challenges Interview structure General question about the perception of challenges between science and society Open questions in order to explore new insights from the interviewee Specific questions and ranking of the initial… [read more]

Cooked delicious cheesy bites, roquette-salmon wraps and flummery with cream and raspberrys. We had an initial discussion about science to society challenges with Matthias Lehner. [read more]