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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 40: Focus Session: Wissenschaftskommunikation / Outreach (joint session HL/O/TT)

TT 40.7: Talk

Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 17:45–18:00, POT 81

Real or Fake - A format in science communication that encurages critical thinking — •Tobias Löffler — Institut für Angewandte Physik Düsseldorf

The outreach format ``Real or Fake'' aims to train the audience in an critical approach to credible-sounding facts.

It is aimed at the general public and specifically at young people. At the same time, it offers an easy introduction for scientists to audience-oriented communication of science on stage. The format can be performed in front of a live audience or as an interactive online event. It has been proven to work as implemented into science festivals, nights of sciences, as a public individual event and also as part of events with constrained settings - such as outreach events at schools or as part of conferences.

``Real or Fake'' was developed in 2017 by scientists around the Berlin March for Science who later founded Besserwissen e.V. with the goal to promote the format and support new organisers. I do cooprate with them since 2019 and have organized more than ten ``Real or Fake'' events since then.

In my talk, I will present the concept and its origins, give an overview of successful events and show what to do and what support one can get, if one wants to organize a ``Real or Fake'' event.