Why TRANSAACT Training?

TRANSAACT principles were recalled during the SoE meeting in Vienna, 24-25 May 2006. The debate showed that it is not obvious for all participants to communicate outside academia. Training could help to overcome the barrier between scientific knowledge and wider public.

It was agreed that TRANSAACT Training for CINEFOGO Network members should be prepared in order to facilitating to share, elaborate and spread good SoE practices, i.e. "how CINEFOGO deliverables can be spread in an appropriate way". The purpose of these courses is to enhance the capacity of CINEFOGO academicians to deal with different stakeholders, such as media, public administrations, policy makers, NGOs, scholars with other background than that of social scientists (broadly understood), etc. Toolkits and teaching materials were prepared in and two TRANSAACT Trainings are planned to take place - the first took place on 23-27 September 2007 and the second is planned in Fall 2008.

TRANSAACT Trainings

• A call for participants for the First (Pilot) TRANSAACT Training taking place on 23-27 September 2007 in Prague (Czechia) was open until 21^st August 2007. On-line application is now closed.
• Second TRANSAACT Training is planned in Fall 2008. More details will follow.
  

Useful on-line resources

• Presentations and other teaching materials are available in CINEFOGO Outcomes Database.
• Communicating research on EU Research website of the European Commission, Science in Society section
  
• Successful communications website
• Guide to successful communications (pdf, 560 kB)
  
• Communicating Science - a scientist's survival kit (pdf, 2MB)
  

• Toolkit on Disseminating Research Online at the The Global Development Network website