The complexity and intricacy of scientific and societal issues and challenges are high and are expected to increase in the future. This also applies to the urgency of ecological, economic, and social sustainability in societal change. Practices of cooperation, collaboration, and collective problem-solving become all the more essential.
Innovative formats for participation and knowledge transfer, along with dialogue conducted beyond the boundaries of academia, can make a significant contribution to addressing current and future questions. Especially in the development of solutions to highly complex problems, competency-based approaches with a broad communicative foundation are only logical.
The offering is aimed at students and early-career researchers who are empowered to initiate interdisciplinary thinking and research, as well as transdisciplinary exchange and co-creation.
How can researchers effectively communicate their complex research topics to colleagues from other disciplines or a classroom without compromising the quality of the content? How can they take into account the knowledge and perspective of the audience without losing their own perspective?
These questions are at the heart of the training that promotes the explanatory and ultimately transfer competence of participating doctoral students. In the workshop on explanatory competence, participants learn basic skills for explaining their own research topic: for example, they practice focusing their research topic on an explanatory slogan in the form of a headline and subline ("Say it on a T-shirt") and practice making their topic accessible to their audience.
The following questions will be addressed in the workshop:
1) How can I reduce my research topic to a core statement?
2) How can I communicate more clearly?
3) How can I spark the interest of the audience, such as students?