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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. [weiterlesen]

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,… [weiterlesen]

In a small group of about 10 people we will visit the “Boulderwelt München ” [weiterlesen]

After five years, Professor Klaus Diepold resigns from the steering committee as a representative of the professors. His successor is Professor Pascal Berberat from the Faculty of Medicine. [weiterlesen]

Wir sind mitten in der Schreibphase für unseren Abschlussbereicht. Es entstehen gerade ein journalistischer und ein wissenschaftlicher Text über unser Projekt. Nach dem nächsten Wochenende wird dann alles von unseren Tutoren durchgelesen. Wir hoffen auf gutes Feedback! [weiterlesen]

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… [weiterlesen]

We finished compiling the information for the poster coming up in two weeks and our final research documentation. We collected all our research results of the past months regarding our subject in one final document. With our case studies that we are currently planning for the next weeks, we are ending our research phase and coming to the next phase which will be the concrete planning of our… [weiterlesen]

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… [weiterlesen]