Research Center for Science Communication

Professor Olaf Kramer heads the new Research Center for Science Communication. The University of Tübingen is boosting research and development into science communication by establishing a specialist research center. -Over recent years, the dialog in scientific policy has focused on the issue of how universities and research institutes can not only produce excellent science but also convey this to society more effectively,- says president of the university, Professor Karla Pollmann. -It has become extremely clear that science communication is itself becoming an increasingly important field of research, and the University of Tübingen wants to play a key part in this. The research center has been founded in response to these developments. Olaf Kramer, Professor of Rhetoric and Knowledge Communication at the University of Tübingen's Department of General Rhetoric is the director of the center. -Research often gives rise to social resistance - whether relating to artificial intelligence, vaccination or climate change,- explains Kramer, -One outcome of the corona pandemic was definitely the knowledge of how important science communication is.