Pre-meeting Conference Orpheus: Science communication and open science - 2023

The five Flemish universities are offering you an exciting day filled with workshops in the morning and presentations in the afternoon on science communication and open science.

Workshops:

(both workshops of 90 min will be given twice)

• How to make a graphical abstract

Congratulations! Your paper is ready for submission. The last thing the publisher asks you for is a graphical abstract, a visual summary of your findings. It should give the reader an immediate understanding of the key messages, at a single glance.
Wow, that’s a challenge. You might ask yourself: Why do I need that and how do I prepare it?
In this workshop, Luk Cox and Idoya Lahortiga (Somersault 1824) will focus on the why and how of graphical abstracts. We’ll also share tips and tricks to improve your workflow, so you can get the best possible result. After all, it might be the most important image in your publication.

• How to make your research instafamous

Instagram has almost 1.5 billion users worldwide and is the perfect place to show what your research is all about – in an attractive and very visual way. Storytelling is key and the creative possibilities are endless.
Don't know how to start or how to get the best results? Kristof D'hanens (I Like Media) will guide you around this social network and surprise you with numerous good cases and examples.
How do you use captions and hashtags? What is the difference between Reels and Stories? And how can Instagram Guides be useful for you as a researcher?

Presentations:

• Open Science = open for business – why you should make it your business!
  Lennart Martens (Ghent University and VIB, Belgium)
• The future of research assessment in the Open Science era.
  Robert Harris (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
• Short talks selected from abstracts
• Why it is not all about the data; how can scientists counteract fake social media news
  Laura Smillie (EC policy analyst, Belgium)
• Dealing with aggression as a high-profile scientist in the news; the experience of a virologist during covid.
  Marc van Ranst (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Explaining the need for animal experiments to the general public – A Walk on the Tight Rope.
  Sabine Chourbaji (Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Short talks selected from abstracts

The final programme is available here (pdf, 248 KB).

Competences

An important part of preparing for any further professional step is becoming (more) aware of the competences you have developed and/or want to develop. In the current workshop, the following competences from the UHasselt competency overview are actively dealt with:

• interpersonal competences:
  • presentation skills
• personal effectiveness:
  • self-development
  • entrepreneurship
    
    

For whom?

• However open to all PhD students & postdocs, the focus of ORPHEUS is Health & Life Sciences

When and where?

• Quadrivium, KU Leuven Campus Arenberg III, Celestijnenlaan 200H, 3001 Leuven

Registration?

• Register here
• Please cancel your registration at least one week in advance in case you cannot make it (cf. cancellation & no-show policy).