european gde meeting oxford 25. october 2005 karsten büßer ilc outreach current work and progress...

European GDE MeetingOxford

25. October 2005

Karsten Büßer

ILC OutreachCurrent Work and Progress

(European View)

K. Büßer EGDE Oxford 25.10.2005

ILC Outreach in Europe

Pre-GDE Era


ELCSG Outreach Sub-committee

One person per CERN member state (currently only 16 members), nominated by RECFA, to adopt a country-by-country strategy to be implemented on the country level with the help of the ELCSG

ELCSG: asked the group to tackle three issues: Immediate strategy aimed at politicians Strategy aimed at other scientists Strategy aimed at the general public

Coordinators (appointed by ELCSG)

Phil Burrows (QMUL), Giorgio Chiarelli (INFN Pisa), Philip Bambade (LAL Orsay), Michael Kobel (Bonn)


Outreach Committee Activities

Regular phone and live meetings Topics under discussion:

Report on the Level of Consciousness of the Linear Collider within the European Establishment

Raising awareness of the ILC as a European Opportunity Plans for a global LC webpage → realised by the GDE now (

www.linearcollider.org) Suggestions for sets of common media, e.g. LC posters

Participation in the organisation of the HEP activities at ESOF2004, Stockholm

Organisation of the exhibition and public conference accompanying the LCWS 2004 in Paris


Subcommittee Outreach Events


ILC Outreach in Europe

Transition to the GDE


Integrating Communication into the GDE

Suggestion by WG6 of the ILC Workshop at KEK (Nov 2004):• Find one additional FTE per region• Serve as ‘plug-in’ to the regional GDE teams• Direct communication channel for the GDE

Responsible for:• ILC NewsLine• ILC Webpage content: www.linearcollider.org• Preparation of materials (press releases, brochures, posters, etc.)• Coordination of outreach activities between the regions


Status of the GDE Communicators

Americas: Hired Elizabeth Clements as ILC Communications Director

Americas Positioned at Fermilab Will hire a dedicated webmaster for www.linearcollider.org

Asia: Hiring a dedicated communicator is difficult Youhei Morita (KEK) acts as ILC Communications Director Asia Gets help from other Asian colleagues (e.g. Kaoruko Saeti) Will hire someone at KEK end of this year to help in

English/Japanese translation


Integrating Communication into the GDE


Status of the European Communicator

Found a typical European-style distributed solution:

1 person hired at LAL-CNRS/IN2P3: Perrine Royole-Degieux full financed by CNRS for an initial period of one year 100% HEP outreach

50% for LHC, especially LHC experiments 50% for ILC GDE, contact person: Philip Bambade

1 person will be hired at DESY jointly financed by DESY and INFN for an initial period of one year 100% ILC

50% outreach 50% scientific assistant to European GDE Director (B. Foster)

I am the placeholder for that person in the GDE for the time being

ELCSG Outreach Sub-comittee could serve as advisory board

Sharing resources for the European GDE core between partners: France: 50% of one FTE Germany: 50% of one FTE Italy: 50% of one FTE UK: 50% of Brian Foster (to release him from his Oxford duties)


Position Announcement

Job announced in July/August issue of Cern Courier

Closing date was September 1st

46 applications received! most of them not qualified but some seem to be very good


Candidate Selection Status

Selection board formed: Philip Bambade, LAL Phil Burrows, QMUL Giorgio Chiarelli, INFN Brian Foster, Oxford Michael Kobel, Bonn Hanna Nowak, DESY KB

First phone meeting on September 19th: 5 candidates selected for short list

Interviews with selected candidates on October 29th at DESY (plus video links)


Candidate Selection Outlook

Hope to have a decision early in November

Realistic starting date: January 2006

→ I am happy to retire from the GDE at that time!


ILC Outreach

Snowmass 2005


Communication at Snowmass

Communication and Outreach is an official item of the ILC workshop agenda since KEK → WG6

WG6 had a lot of participants in Snowmass: ALCSG, ELCSG, USLCSG Outreach Subcommittees Professional ILC Communicators, i.e. press office members of the

big labs and organisations Interaction.org collaboration members The GDE communicators Other interested ILC collaborators, etc.

WG6 had two very active weeks: ILC communications sessions Interactions.org collaboration meeting Workshop on public participation at the ILC Strategic Communication Plan and:


Launching of www.linearcollider.org


www.linearcollider.org

Launched at Snowmass (15. August 2005) Commercial Content Management System by Xenomedia Started with very successful Snowmass live coverage Information for

Collaborators The Press Communicators Students and Educators

Close collaboration with DMS selection committee for the introduction of Wiki systems, e.g. for BCD editing needs

Dedicated webmaster will be hired at Fermilab Web traffic:

August (since 15th): 8867 visits September: 11871 visits October (until 14th): 4509 visits


Launching of the ILC NewsLine


ILC NewsLine

Launched at Snowmass (18. August 2005) Weekly e-newsletter to the ILC community and beyond

Feature stories Report from conferences and workshops Director’s corner Around the world Calendar In the News Announcements (events, preprints, new colleagues, job

announcements, etc.) ← your input required! 10 issues so far 825 current subscribers (as of 14. October 2005) ~20 new subscribers per week Very successful collaboration between the (already

existing) GDE communicators


Conclusion

ILC outreach is an important topic on Europe’s agenda ELCSG Outreach Sub-committee European GDE Communicator(s)

1.5 FTEs for the ILC (1.0 Outreach + 0.5 Scientific GDE Assistant) 1.5 FTEs for Outreach (1.0 ILC and 0.5 LHC) strong synergy effects expected

One Communicator is already in place at LAL Other will start at DESY soon

Need to discuss the interplay between the ELCSG Outreach Subcommittee, the GDE Communicators, and the rest (e.g. the press offices of the labs)

ILC outreach activities come up to speed ILC Website ILC NewsLine

→ Future plans (see Perrine’s talk!)

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