Workshop on Science Communication and Careers in Neuroscience
22, 23, and 30 September 2023
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (GMT+1)
Target audience: College and High School Students
Limited to 20 participants!
22, 23, and 30 September 2023
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (GMT+1)
Target audience: College and High School Students
Limited to 20 participants!
This year we bring you an international workshop that features neuroscience and science communication experts, and where you will learn how to effectively communicate scientific concepts!
With the skills you'll learn during this Workshop, we challenge you to create a 3-minute pitch using an original digital support (video or poster/graphical abstract).
Pitches will be presented on the final day of the Workshop and a Jury will select the Top 3 pitches!
The Top 3 winners will have access to:
All participants will get a Certificate of Completion.
Hear about the experience of science communication experts and their different projects on public engagement, citizen science, and science advocacy.
Is research the only way to be involved in Neuroscience? In this session, we joined professionals with different backgrounds who all work or have worked in the field of Neurosciences.
Build your skills on how to put together an attention-grabbing pitch! Learn about how to create great figures and how to effectively edit videos for your pitch.
Head of Communications, Events & Outreach (CEO) at Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
Co-founder & Director of Native Scientists and Co-founder & Co-Director of Chaperone
Science Advocacy Researcher at University of Galway, Ireland
Executive Director, Eyewire, Princeton University, USA
Science Communication Consultant and Director at Pint of Science World & France
Regulatory Scientist at Voisin Consulting Life Sciences, USA
Coordinator of the Open Science Hub - Portugal
Founder of The Neuron Family and Resercher at McGill University, Canada
Director of Neuropsychiatry at the Champalimaud Research and Clinical Center, Portugal
Program Manager and Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Scientific Designer and Illustrator, Belgium
Science Communication Coordinator and Researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Science Communicator and Researcher at the Center for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Get ready to be blown away by the amazing talents of the participants!
With the skills they learned during the Workshop on Science Communication and Careers in Neuroscience, we challenged all participants to create a 3-minute pitch about their favorite topic in Neurosciences. And the results? INCREDIBLE!
👏 Congratulations to all the challenge winners, selected by an esteemed Jury panel of scicomm experts!
Elza Rocha
Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Assina Abdussaitova
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Diogo Lourenço
Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal
