Publication: This is how science outreach can succeed! – Transfer process between university and schools

Our institute published the paper "This is how science outreach can succeed! – Transfer process between university and schools" in Chemie, Ingenieur, Technik.  

Research at universities creates new, innovative scientific results every day, which are of major importance for socially relevant contexts, such as steps to protect the climate or new methods of medical treatment. However, for society, these new findings and methods are usually "Blackboxes", since the relevant background remains unexplained. Subject didactic transfer processes should close this resulting gap between university research and society by creating educational offers for students from the cooperation of didacticians and scientists. But how is such a transfer process designed and structured? The Department of Biochemical Engineering at the RPTU in Kaiserslautern-Landau has been engaging in science outreach projects for 20 years. During this time, a transfer process has been established that builds a bridge between scientific research and schools in a multi-professional team within four transfer loops. A study has now also examined the extent to which immersive digital media, such as augmented reality (AR), support the necessary didactic reconstruction of research-oriented topics and subject-specific contexts. With the research-based educational approaches, developments towards an attractive, motivating and practice-oriented STEM education can be created in order to simultaneously inspire future generations for STEM and to increase the quality of education in terms of the sustainability goals.

L. Geuer, R. Ulber; This is how science outreach can succeed! – Transfer process between university and schools; Chem.-Ing.-Tech. (2025) in press (Article in German)