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Raumschiff – the Maker Space for Astronomy

by Hanna Sathiapal | Oct 17, 2016 | Public Engagement

Last month we opened Raumschiff (space ship) – the maker Space for Astronomy in a neighbourhood at the outskirts of Zurich. Making ‘spaceships’ during the opening night After many years of doing outreach at individual events we sometimes felt that...

Update on Responsible Research and Innovation

by Hanna Sathiapal | Jun 21, 2016 | Public Engagement

I may have written the last post just a few days too early. A lot of information about Responsible Research and Innovation is now available on the website of the FP7 SwfS project RRI Tools Fostering Responsible Research and Innovation Towards an open science and...

Responsible Research and Innovation RRI

by Hanna Sathiapal | Jun 15, 2016 | Public Engagement

What is all the buzz about RRI? My first try at finding out took place a year ago at a science communication conference in Garching. The situation is the following: Since the beginning of this century, science communication went through several stages: Public...