ARE YOU UNSURE HOW TO COMMUNICATE YOUR RESEARCH IN A SIMPLE, ENGAGING WAY OR HOW TO SET UP SCIENCE WORKSHOPS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC?
The FNR offers various types of training to support you:
Media training for researchers
Researchers learn how to communicate with the media and how to effectively place their messages in an understandable way.
Upcoming media training for Principal Investigators: Spring 2023
Upcoming media training for all Researchers: Spring 2023
Science journalism training
Researchers, journalists and science communicators learn how to use the web to write for a lay audience about science/their work.
Mr Science training
Teachers, educators, animators, science communicators and researchers learn how to communicate scientific content towards lay audiences and young people.
Training sessions are organised regularly and communicated via our FNR Info newsletter, our webpage and our social media channels Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Upcoming Mr Science training
Groupe A: 17. Mäerz an 28. Abrell vun 14-17 Auer cycle 3-4
Groupe B: 5. Mee an 2. Juni vun 14-17 Auer 7e-5e (sciences naturelles)
Titel: De Science Challenge : experimentéieren am Damp
La présente formation se focalise sur les “challenges” scientifiques: Une manière d’expérimenter avec les jeunes en ajoutant une compétition ludique. Cette technique fera objet d’un nouveau show télévisé qui sortira en 2023 sur RTL. Partie intégrante de ce show seront des activités pédagogiques qu’on peut répéter facilement dans la salle de classe. Cette formation donnera un Sneak Preview sur quelques activités et aura comme but de tester la faisabilité en classe.
L’accent est mis sur des activités qui ne nécessitent presque pas de matériel spécial, sans se limiter aux activités banales.
Contact: joseph.rodesch@fnr.lu
IFEN training for primary school teachers
For several years now, the FNR has been developing lesson plans in collaboration with Script to support primary school teachers in their “Éveil aux sciences’ lessons with simple but exciting experiment ideas and video material. The lesson plans also introduces pupils to the scientific method as they are always structure around the same four steps: question/hypothesis – experiment – observation – conclusion. Thematically, they are mostly oriented to the “plan d’études”, so that the experiments or videos can be treated in class as a supplement to the subject matter. FNR Science Communicators together with Script-teachers also offer interactive IFEN-certified training for primary school teachers to get to know these lesson plans and method. Below is a list of the training sessions offered in 2022. Registration is via the IFEN website and opens two months before the respective training.
Title: Loscht op Experimenter? Iddie fir Är Klass (Code D2-b-31)
Dates
18/01/2022
25/01/2022
03/02/2022
24/02/2022
01/03/2022
LATEST NEWS ABOUT TRAINING
FNR Webinar on 31 March: Important policy updates on Open Access for publications – slides available
26 Apr 2023
Following the informative webinar on 31 March 2023, about policy updates concerning Open Access for publications, a recording of the webinar as well as the slides are now available.
16 Mar 2023
How to present scientific evidence to politicians: The FNR’s training for researchers takes place on the 19 and 20 of April 2023. *Registration now closed*
14 Mar 2023
Calling primary school teachers (C2-C4): do you want to make your natural sciences lessons (éveil aux sciences) more interactive and experiment with your pupils? Then sign up for one of our hands-on IFEN-certified training sessions happening soon!
24 Mar 2022
The FNR is offering 10 travel grants to excellent young researchers to participate at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2022 which takes place from 13 – 16 July 2022 in Leiden, Netherlands. Application deadline is 19 April, 2022.
24 Feb 2022
Calling all primary school teachers: do you want to make your natural sciences lessons (éveil aux sciences) more interactive and experiment with your pupils? Then sign up for the national kick-off event of the lesson plans from science.lu! In this three-hour IFEN-certified event, you will get to know the science.lu section „Ideen für naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht in der Grundschule“ and try out some of the experiments suggested there yourself.
10 Feb 2022
Have you ever wondered about how to involve the public with your research? Would you like to improve your communication skills to talk to the media and the public? What to say during an interview to get your message across? Would you like to feel safer in front of a TV camera or when communicating on social media? One last-minute spot has become available for the training for researchers, taking place on Thursday, 10 March 2022!
10 Feb 2022
Have you ever wondered about how to involve the public with your research? Would you like to improve your communication skills to talk to the media and the public? What to say during an interview to get your message across? Would you like to feel safer in front of a TV camera or when communicating on social media? The FNR media training for PI’s takes place on Wednesday, 9 March 2022.
19 Mar 2020
You want to communicate about your research or your passion of science through a YouTube video? If you are motivated to learn how to produce your own science web video, join us for a thrilling two-day training. Organised by the FNR, in cooperation with Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Fast Forward Science contest, this workshop will give you all insights and tools on how to produce your own science web video. Update: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this training has been postponed from April to Autumn 2020 (exact date to follow).
19 Apr 2018
Luxinnovation is organising a grant writing workshop aimed at recent or prospective postdocs moving to Luxembourg from all scientific areas, both public and private, as well as principal investigators and research facilitators. The workshop takes place on Monday, 11 June 2018, with a registration deadline of Tuesday, 1 May.
19 Sep 2017
Do due high demand, the FNR media training for researchers, taking place on Thursday, 12 October 2017, is now fully booked! Anyone wishing to be placed on a waiting list should send an email to sonia.ramos@fnr.lu. Should any places become available, you will be contacted. Download flyer (PDF)