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Science Communication Group

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Organisation profile

Research at CERN´s Large Hadron Collider, new findings on the Higgs particle or results on neutrinos are attracting great interest from the general public. To let them participate in our research, we are active in outreach and science communication. At the IKTP, we lead the nationwide program Netzwerk Teilchenwelt, external link and the worldwide program International Masterclasses, external link. Through these programmes, young people and teachers can experience particle and astroparticle physics, analysing data from the LHC experiments or carrying out their own measurements with detectors for cosmic rays.

Our BMBF-funded project KONTAKT (since 07/24 KLET³), external link aims to communicate findings from research with the smallest particles in a way that can be understood by everyone, and to develop and test new communication channels and participation formats. Scientists from 34 universitites and research labs are participating in the nationwide project.

Furthermore, we organize advanced training courses for teachers, external link and produce teaching material on particle physics, external link. In Dresden, we organize a regular get-together for interested teachers and offer topics for theses of student teachers.

We are also participating in the EU project ChETEC-INFRA, external link, which aims to make research infrastructure in nuclear astrophysics - including telescopes, supercomputers and laboratories such as the Dresden Felsenkellerlabor - available to a wide range of users. In Masterclasses on nuclear astrophysics, high school students gain insight into how the chemical elements in stars are formed.

Contact

Zellescher Weg 19
Andreas Schubert Bau
01069
Dresden
Saxony
Germany

Keywords

Research priority areas of TU Dresden

DFG Classification of Subject Areas according to Review Boards

Subject groups, research areas, subject areas according to Destatis

Sustainable Development Goals

Related content and researchers (public profile)

Ausgewählte Begriffe in der Teilchenphysik: Eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse unter Verwendung von Ansätzen der Kognitiven Linguistik

Stieler, T., 18 Apr 2024, 101 p.

Research output: Types of thesisState examination thesis

Pandemic as a challenge for International Masterclasses

Bilow, U. & Cecire, K., 26 Jul 2021.

Research output: Contribution to conferencesPosterInvited

Entwicklung einer digitalen Escape Story zur Radonbelastung

Nitsche, H., 31 May 2021

Research output: Types of thesisState examination thesis

Netzwerk Teilchenwelt: Coordinated Outreach and Recruitment of Young Talents in Germany

Bilow, U. & Kobel, M., 15 Apr 2021, In: Proceedings of Science. 390, ICHEP2020, 936.

Research output: Contribution to journalConference articleContributedpeer-review

Netzwerk Teilchenwelt: An outreach network in Germany

Bilow, U. & Kobel, M., 11 Jan 2021, In: Proceedings of Science. 2020, 197.

Research output: Contribution to journalConference articleContributedpeer-review