BIST Postdoctoral Day: Staying Connected

The BIST Postdoctoral Day is a biennial event organised by postdocs for postdocs. This year’s event is a three-part seminar series focused on the .. Read more theme of (Re)connecting Science and Society. Through these postdoc-tailored online seminars, you will have the chance to develop key communication skills needed to effectively communicate your science through cutting edge virtual platforms, in the political arena, and in the context of competitive grant application processes. Specifically, seminars will cover three topics: 1) Efficient science communication: from art design online to leveraging YouTube, 2) Science communication to a general audience and in the political arena, and 3) How to build successful grant application. Improve scientific communication of our scientific achievements at different levels, covering both design aspects and oral communication in virtual platforms, and conceptually evaluate the message to efficiently communicate our research when reaching a more general audience or to a more professional public (i.e. Science and Diplomacy represent two of the most relevant and intensively scrutinised disciplines of the moment. More broadly, the essential cross talk between science and the political arena has been particularly evident in context of the ongoing crisis of COVID-19.