Invite us to your university (of applied science), institute, PhD day, conference or summer school and we will inspire you and your colleagues or students to get your message across in more attractive, contemporary and effective ways.
Choose from our science communication workshops
All our workshops are about science communication. However, for each workshop we chose a different focus: strategic thinking about the basic questions, performing a pitch, telling a story, writing a social media post, creating a presentation, or designing a graphical abstract.
IMPACT with science communication
Do you want to have a positive effect on the world? We'll make you think about your goal, audience, and message and ensure you know what it takes to create impact! Also available as a keynote lecture.
Pitch your science to any audience
By understanding your audience and aligning your message to their needs, you can really get your point across. In this workshop you’ll create a short pitch or article to practice just that.
Poster design & graphical abstracts
Create beautiful and effective infographics, posters and graphical abstracts. You will learn the best practices in design to make sure your work gets noticed and is easier to understand.
Science and the media
Do you want to be more confident around journalists or the media? Or do you want to take advantage of the opportunities that social media offer for scientists? We'll get you started!
Presentation design
Learn all the skills you need to create beautiful science presentations more efficiently. This is a hands-on workshop with both theory and practical PowerPoint tips & tricks.
Storytelling for scientists
Are you ready to captivate your audience even more? Try storytelling! In this workshop you will learn what you need to turn words into a story.
Social media
Learn to write engaging and effective social media posts that honors the best-practices in science communication. With examples, tips and inspiration for your next post.
Create a personal website
Learn everything you need to know about how to create your own personal website. From technical stuff like hosting, to website structure, visibility and design.
Short interactive workshops
Do you only have an hour to fill, but do you want prefer an interactive workshop with exercises or group work? We’ve created two workshops just for this purpose.
We’ve given dozens of workshops and worked with many Universities, hospitals and scientific organisations across Europe:
The success of my poster and my pitch is the result of what I learned in your extraordinary workshop. The outcome was exactly what I wanted. I had a lot of interaction with the public, feedback, questions, many post-it notes, lots of connections in LinkedIn and possibly new collaborations 🤩 also, my supervisors are extremely proud and happy. I couldn’t ask for more! THANK YOU
– Viviam Solangeli Bermudez Paiva, PhD Candiate in Computational cancer biology
Our research team enjoyed the IMPACT workshop very much! We learned how we can create more impact with our research by thinking one step further. An interactive workshop with a lot of positive energy!”
– Ilgin Arslan, Researcher Healthcare Data
Last week I received the “1st Excellence Poster Award” at the 10th Manufacturing Engineering Society International Conference (out of 100 posters!!). I would like to thank you for the help with the work and for planning a great course!
– Leonardo Giannini, PhD Candidate Mechanical and Industrial Engineering NTNU
Find a form and flow that fits your time and participants
Multiple-day design sessions
Some of our workshops work best when the workload is spread out over multiple sessions. And perhaps sometimes it suits your schedule better too!
This is good option for our design workshops, when you want more time to work on your design: we can split up a 4-hour workshop into an introductory lecture, homework for the participants, and then a second session for feedback and in-depth learning. This works well for students too.
Combine workshops to your needs
If you have a whole day, it’s also possible to combine workshops into a full-day one. Especially our Basics-Media combination (2 x 3 hours) is popular.
Liesbeth and Stephan inspired me to think better about the communication of my research. I thought it was especially cool to learn how to convey a message in such a way that you can attract attention even with the most complex topics. In the future I will package all my messages in a more creative format.”
– David Oerlemans, student at HAS
I wanted to express my gratitude for the exceptional experience and invaluable knowledge I gained during the recent science communication workshop in Trondheim. The workshop, organised by the Digital Life Norway Research School, truly exceeded my expectations, and I appreciate the opportunity to learn from your experienced team.
– PhD Candidate, NTNU Norway
Words from our workshop participants
As a former teacher, I thought I’d gotten the basics of presenting down- until Liesbeth’s workshop showed me that presenting posters is a whole new ball game. In an engaging and interactive way she managed to keep everyone’s attention (which might be the toughest part of online workshops) and gave us tools and tips on how to improve your work immensely with simple changes. I’ve now gone on to share these tips with friends and coworkers so I would definitely recommend it!
Malu van Schaijk
During Bessensap, an annual event where science meets press, Stephan told a fully booked room about the do’s and don’t of science presentations. With all kinds of beautiful examples, he explained how graphs, photos and other visual support can complement a story, but also can take away from it. I’m sure it has inspired many members of the audience to create their next science presentation in a clear and creative way.
Anouk Broersma, Bessensap
Liesbeth gave a great motivational ‘Impact with research!’ workshop for PhD students. She helped us dare to think bigger and gave us many tips to get started ourselves. Highly recommended!
Dorine Duijsens, PhD student (FWO-SB) at Lab of Food Technology, KULeuven
Liesbeth gave a 2-hour interactive workshop to our PhD students on how to create impact with scientific research. So much was discussed: How do you keep a poster readable? What do you put and especially NOT put on your slides during a presentation? What is the one-liner of your research? Liesbeth presented in a very spontaneous and open manner, and inspired us to get more out of science. Our participants were excited to put what we learned into practice.
Famke Mölenberg, PhD candidate in Social Epidemiology, department of Public Health at Erasmus MC
Trainers
We each have 12+ years in science communication, writing, and design and love to share our expertise with your audience.
Liesbeth Smit
Whether it’s a class of schoolchildren or a room full of CEO’s, Liesbeth is an energetic speaker that will leave you with something to think about.
Stephan van Duin
How can we help?
We believe good science communication is the key to a better relationship between science and society. If you are curious about this and want to know what science communication can do for you, get in touch! Fill out the form below so we can develop a custom talk for your event.
Science communication is the key to a better relationship between science and society.