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Hello! Swedish schools have started their summer holidays and we take the opportunity to look ahead to the next academic year. Reaching out with research to schools and young people is the theme of the newsletter this time. Research communication with school students can lead to many exciting meetings and interesting discussions. We hope to convey tips and inspiration to help you reach out with your research to future decision-makers and business leaders. Also take the opportunity to check if your name is in the list
Forskare att fråga ("Researchers to ask") and if the information is up to date. The list is an important tool for SLU's press department and is used daily during summer when media are looking for experts. Are you the expert that the journalists will contact next time? The press department is also specifically looking for researchers with expertise in drought and heat. Write to press@slu.se or to us at forskningskommunikationLTV@slu.se if you want to be added to the list, make changes, or have expertise in drought and heat. You are always welcome to contact us if you want to discuss other issues or tell us about something that is going on. We hope you will enjoy reading the newsletter!
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Johanna och Teresia In this newsletter: | | | | | Apply for funding for activities on research aimed at schools
Today, the opportunity opens to apply for funding for events and activities aimed at schools within the European Researchers's Night & The Researchers at Schools Initiative 2024-2025. The initiative aims to strengthen links between research and education. Researchers and students meet to talk about research and societal challenges. Indicative budget: approx. EUR 15 million. Application Deadline: October 25 | | | | | |
Practical tips on reaching out to schools and young people
Here we give some tips that we think may be of interest to researchers at the LTV Faculty. - Do you teach or work in education? Then you can turn to SLU's division Learning and Digitalisation for support through consultation, project management, courses and seminars.
- Sign up for Borrow a researcher and get the chance to tell school students about your research on 25-28 September. The opportunity returns twice a year when schools, non-profit associations and workplaces can borrow a researcher for a digital or physical visit. On 7 September, you can get coaching before Borrow a researcher on how you can present your research and meet the audience.
- Bioresurs - the Swedish center for school biology at Uppsala University - works with teachers in schools and preschools and has an official collaboration with SLU. It is possible to contribute with articles in the journal Bi-lagan or make suggestions for simple laboratory sessions for schools. They also arrange teacher days and courses.
- Do you have material you want to spread to schools? There are several different online services where teachers can download and order lesson materials produced by universities and other authorities as well as companies. SLU does not currently have any formal collaboration with any such actor, as far as we at Research Communication @LTV know.
- Communicate your research, network and get inspiration at some of the autumn fairs on education. During the autumn, the science festival SciFest takes place, which is co-organized by Uppsala University and SLU. Other fairs are the Göteborg Book Fair, Lärkraft at Älvsjömässan and the Kunskapsveckan in Umeå.
- Take part of relevant research for the field of education at The National Agency for Education.
| SLU Youth Institute:
On food security
Have you heard of SLU Youth Institute? High school students in collaboration with the World Food Prize Foundation. The goal is to create interest in global issues with a focus on the UN's sustainability goal "No hunger". The program is available in Alnarp, Uppsala and Umeå. Researchers can participate as experts in roundtable discussions, visit schools or showcase their research on campus. Want to know more about how you can participate in the program? Contact Kristina Karlsson Green, coordinator for SLU Youth Institute in Alnarp. Also read an article about the roundtable discussions that recently concluded this year's round:
SLU Youth Institute raises awareness about food security among young people.
| | | Forest Lab: A teaching material from SLUThe Forest Lab (Skogslabbet) is a free digital learning material about forests and sustainable development for upper secondary schools. Teachers have developed the content and ensured the link to the curriculum and SLU researchers have reviewed the content. The material addresses five themes: Sustainable development, Climate, Biodiversity, Forest as a circular resource and Man and the forest In two webinars on Forest and Climate and Biodiversity, researchers from SLU, authors and project managers present the teaching material. Also read an article where a teacher, a high school student and a researcher talk about their experiences of using the Forest Lab's role play in teaching. | | |
More SLU initiatives that communicate research to schools
More examples of popular scientific material and other initiatives for youth from SLU:
| Inspiring initiatives from other universitiesSome examples of popular science initiatives from other universities: | Coworkers in the mediaHere we present a selection of media reports where employees at the LTV Faculty and SLU have participated recently. Coworkers at the LTV Faculty:David Hansson and Sven-Erik Svensson, Department of Biosystems and Technology, participated in Lantbruksnytt in the article Flera fördelar att så vårkorn tätt och med hög densitet. Lotta Fabricius, Department of People and Society, participated in the press release Coops medlemmar skänker 1,3 miljoner bin till demonstrationsgårdar, about the research project B-THENET. Lotta Nordmark, Department of Biosystems and Technology participated in SVT Nyheter Halland in the report Klimatförändringar ritar om vinkartan - forskaren: "Sverige kan klara sig bättre". Fredrika Mårtensson, Department of People and Society participated in SVT Nyheter in Forskaren i miljöpsykologi: Tre fördelar med större förskolegårdar Henrik Sjöman, Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management talked about trees that are resistant to a dry climate in Odla med P1, and in Klartext och Vetenskapsradion, and also about trees that are resistant to floods in Vetenskapsradion. Vera Vicenzotti, Department of Urban and Rural Development, participated in the magazine Arkitekten in the article Estetisk hållbarhet undersöks på SLU. Coworkers at SLU: Jennie Barron, Department of Soil and Environment, participated in a news report about the drought Lantbrukaren om torkan: "Dyraste produktionsåret i mannaminne" in P1 Morgon. Torbjörn Ebenhard, SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre, participated in Dagens Nyheter in the article: Sverige på väg att svika internationella miljömål.
Hanna Friberg, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology Ola Lundin and Maria Viketoft, Department of Ecology, participated in the SLU News story Clover in oat fields supports pollinators and suppresses weeds and the article Dubbel nytta av klöver i havrefält in Jordbruksaktuellt.
Brian Kuns, Department of Urban and Rural Development, participated in Sveriges radio and Dagens Nyheter about the Kachovka Dam disaster in Ukraine. More reports can be found on the webpage SLU i media. | | |
Apply to participate in Researchers' Grand Prix Digital that is open to researchers from all over Sweden. Present your research in the most understandable, captivating and inspiring way in just 4 minutes. Last application date is 1 August 2023. | | | | Students from SLU's landscape programmes in Alnarp will build models and structures from sand together with children visiting The Malmö festival.
| | | | Event for teachers at Skansen on how to inspire and support youth in their engagement in issues related to sea and environment. | | | | SciFest is a science festival arranged by Uppsala University and SLU in Uppsala. SciFest wants to give children and school pupils the opportunity to discover just how much fun science is, and hopefully be able to sow a seed that leads young people to become interested in studying it more and maybe even become researchers.
Registration for exhibitors is now closed. | | | | In Sweden, activities during the European Researchers’ Night are organised across the country and online under the name ForskarFredag. | | | | | | | | |
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