Science communication and outreach for
H2020 projects
Science communication – from scientists, for scientists
Dr. Dennis
Fink CEO / Co-Founder
Dr. Tina Koch CEO / Art director
Peter Kohl Chief editor
• Mediomix GmbH founded 2012 in Cologne (Germany)
• Digital media agency for science outreach
• Supported by the BMWi
• Experienced in international H2020 projects in
cooperation with academia and industry
How we do scientific outreach For academia and industry
Example project: Ocean Sampling Day
EU 7FP project Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity,
Bioinformatics, Biotechnology)
• Develop innovative bioinformatic approaches and a legal framework to
make large-scale data on marine bacterial genomes accessible for
global research
• 32 academic and industrial partners
• 191 European sampling sites in 2015
• Citizen science project in 2016 (300 samples from the public)
• Mobile app for data collection
New ways for outreach
Hackathons
• Video production and campaign outreach
• Sucessful funding on Seedmatch
Crowdfunding campaings
• 2 events in 2017
• Scientists, gamers, programmers
• Connect the broad public to scientists and gamers
• Build games for science communication in 48h
mediomix GmbH
Clusterhaus
Im Klapperhof 7-23
50670 Köln
phone/fax 0221-8000 61 89
web www.mediomix.de
mail [email protected]