Projekt

The Munich Science Communication Lab focuses on the topic of Planetary Health. This relatively new field of research is increasingly in the public eye. For example, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted the link between the state of natural systems and human health. The consortium brings together communication science, practice, and planetary health research and pursues several goals with this center: by bringing together expertise from health communication and climate communication under the umbrella term "Planetary Health," findings from both fields will be brought together and used to develop and explore new narratives and models of science communication. "Planetary Health" serves as an example for so-called "wicked problems", i.e. challenges that do not have simple solutions because they are of global relevance, contradictory interests have to be reconciled and they need to be solved repeatedly. The consortium wants to explore how to communicate about "wicked problems", which roles emotions play in science communication, which strategies enable an inclusive, consensus-oriented and constructive dialogue, how these topics can be communicated in different media formats and how science communication can succeed in the future - in cooperation between disciplines, science communication research and practice - according to mutual benefit approaches. Among other things, the consortium plans to launch open calls for proposals on science communication formats and science communication research. The results will not only contribute to advancing the academic debate, but will also be translated into a toolbox that offers evidence-based science communication practices on planetary health to support researchers and practitioners worldwide. The practice partners involved, such as the Deutsches Museum, the Natural History Museum BIOTOPIA and the City of Munich, offer expertise, audience and experimentation potential in the empirical part of the research on science communication.

• Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Brosius

  Universität München
  Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft
  und Medienforschung
  Empirische Kommunikationswissenschaft
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz

  Universität München
  Fakultät für Geowissenschaften
  Department für Geographie
  Physische Geographie und Landnutzungssysteme
  Muenchen
  

• Prof. Dr. Eva Rehfuess

  Universität München
  Medizinische Fakultät
  Lehrstuhl für Public Health/Versorgungsforschung
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl

  Deutsches Museum
  Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftskommunikation, TUM
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch

  Universität München
  Rachel Carson Center for
  Environment and Society
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Martin R. Fischer

  Universität München
  Medizinische Fakultät
  Institut für Didaktik & Ausbildungsforschung
  München
  

• Dr. Julia Serong

  Universität München
  Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
  Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und
  Medienforschung
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch

  Universität München
  Fakultät für Physik
  Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik
  Universitäts-Sternwarte
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler

  Deutsches Museum
  Forschungsinstitut
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Georg Marckmann

  Universität München
  Medizinische Fakultät
  Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und
  Theorie der Medizin
  München
  

• Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman

  Universität München
  Fakultät für Biologie
  BIOTOPIA Naturkundemuseum Bayern
  Chair for Life Sciences in Society
  Planegg-Martinsried
  

• Prof. Dr. Gregg Mitman

  Universität München
  Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
  München
  

• Dr. Cecilia Scorza

  Universität München
  Fakultät für Physik
  Koordination Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
  München