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Session 1: popularize, how far to go?

ILC Louvain-La-Neuve, Mons

  • Compere: François Lambotte (UCL/ILC)
  • Contributor 1 : Philippe Verhaegen (UCL/ILC) - « Vulgarisation scientifique » et « diffusion des savoirs »
  • Contirbutor 2 : Audrey Binet (UCL/AREC) – Le projet de vulgarisation vu par le service de communication de l'UCL - https://uclouvain.be/sciencetoday (Science Today) - Présentation PPT (French version only)
  • Debate: What are the university's expectations in terms of popularization by its researchers? What is the place of university knowledge in the dissemination of knowledge? When a researcher undertakes a popularization process, how far should he go? What are the limits between: didactisation, simplification, adaptation… but also: research-action, intervention, implementation?

At the start of the seminar : each comes with the results of a personal research that he would like to popularize, after having thought about:

  • why these results and not others?
  • who would be the target audience for this popularized production?
  • which medium/format to choose?

These popularization projects fuel the debate on the scope and format of popular science and comfort (or not) the participants in the choice of the results they wish to disseminate.