Science and Communications

FUTURE EARTH & UNU-IASSPECIAL WORKSHOP

- designing a communication package for global research

Venue: 5F Committee Room 2, United Nations University

Each year at least 1.5m scientific papers are published worldwide.

How many of these research results are shared with the public and

actually contribute to the society? In general, academia faces barriers

in how to interact and engage with other sectors and stakeholders to

form effective collaborations. The role of communications in a

scientific project is so crucial to connect different stakeholders and

for the project to be seen and contribute to society. This workshop is

designed to develop a communications/outreach package for

scientific research. We invite communications experts to the work-

shop, who will share their know-how and ideas on how to design

effective and innovative outreach projects. Below are the sample

projects to be developed during the workshop.

SNS/Web: how to make an effective tweet, how to select appropriate images, etc.

Public event design: what are the innova-tive/interactive ways to organize a public event

Infographic: effective visualization of scientific results/figures/numbers

Media: writing a clear/effective article of research results for media (ie. News, website, press release and brochures)

14:00 Opening and self-introduction of participants

14:15 Science and Communications, Alistair Scruttion

14:30 Water and Urban Initiative presentation

14:40 Discussion Tips, Asher Minns, Tyndall Centre

14:45 Forming 4 groups (tentative)

14:50 Group work

16:20 Project presentation

16:40 Open Discussion

17:00 Closing remarks

1. SNS (ie. Twitter / Instagram / facebook etc.)2. Infographic3. Public event design4. Media

P R O G R A M M EAlistair Scrutton, Director of Communications, Future Earth (online)

Asher Minns, Executive Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research School of Environ-mental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

Fumiko Kasuga, Global Hub Director, Future Earth

Misato Dilley, Acting Programme Coordinator, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability

and more experts

Language: English14:00 - 17:0014 November 2017

The event is only for invited

C O N T A C THideyuki MohriFuture Earth Global Hub Tokyohideyuki.mohri@futureearth.org

Research. Innovation. Sustainability.

P A R T I C I P A N T S include

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