Visual science literacy – Indicators, data and results

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Uses of public communication in the scientific culture of Brazil and Canada – A comparative study between The Federal University of Uberlandia and The University of Ottawa

The article has a proposal is to conduct a comparative study of scientific culture in Brazil and Canada, observing the uses of Science, Public Communication, and technology transference (innovation) at the University of Ottawa and Federal University of Uberlandia, aiming at approaching the interrelation between academic production and its media popularization to make science popular.

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Natural and social scientists relate differently with the public and take roles in different kinds of media stories. Evidence from surveys in Brazil and Germany

In our paper we compare the relationship of scientists with the public in two broad areas of scholarship – natural and social sciences. We are interested whether natural and social scientists conceptualize their relationship with the public differently and whether they are approached by journalists in different ways.

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PERFORM

PERFORM aims to investigate the effects of the use of innovative science education methods based on performing arts in fostering young peoples’ motivations and engagement with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in secondary schools in France, Spain and the United Kingdom. PERFORM takes action to overcome the remaining distance between young people and science and break the outdated unidirectional model of scientific knowledge transfer.

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Short and swift – Equipping policy-makers with regional science

In small countries and particularly in developing regions, national staff have broad areas of responsibility and limited time or training to incorporate scientific findings. Science advisory councils are a rarity and a luxury. Competition for the attention of policy-makers places great demands on the perceived quality of sources, type of information, and mode of presentation.