Research Center for Science Communication (RCS)

Research Center for Science Communication (RCS)

Contact

Prof Dr Olaf Kramer
Neuphilologicum, Room 514
+49 7071 2974256
olaf.kramer@uni-tuebingen.de

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The Research Center for Science Communication (RCS) emerged from the Rhetoric Department of Tübingen University, is headed by Prof Dr Olaf Kramer and coordinates both science communication research and the science communication training program at the University of Tübingen. The center

  • initiates research and practical projects
  • conducts research and practical projects
  • supports research and practical projects in applying for third-party funding
  • bundles the University of Tübingen's training courses in science communication
  • offers and (further) develops interdisciplinary teaching formats to build skills in the field of science communication
  • organizes encounters and exchanges of interdisciplinary expertise
  • promotes initiatives in the area of public engagement
  • provides infrastructures for the promotion of early career researchers

Conference announcement
Presentation skills as a future skill – interdisciplinary impulses
March 25–27, 2026, University of Tübingen

The ability to prepare knowledge in a way that is appropriate for the audience and to present it effectively is considered a key skill for the 21st century. The conference organized by the Presentation Competence Research Unit and the educational initiative Youth Presents is dedicated to the theoretical and empirical connections between presentation skills and future skills.

The aim is to promote interdisciplinary exchange and develop a theoretical framework that understands presentation skills as a catalyst for future skills. Researchers from the fields of rhetoric, education, psychology, communication studies, media education, subject didactics, and related disciplines are cordially invited to participate.

Call for Contribution

Conference languages: German and English
Submission deadline for contributions: January 15, 2026
Contact: carmen.lipphardtspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de


The research center pursues four goals:

1. the rhetorical and interdisciplinary scientific grounding of science communication,
2. to increase the range, variety of formats and quality of science communication,
3. to enable effective science communication under different situational and media conditions,
4. to establish the University of Tübingen as a nationally and internationally visible location for science communication research.


Projects

Research

Training and Outreach