[Nhcoll-l] Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone 2019 - call for workshops

[Szymek Drobniak]

Dear all,

The EvoKE community (Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone) had launched a call to organise workshops during the next EvoKE conference.

We at EvoKE seek to contribute to a world where people understand evolution and can use scientific knowledge and skills to make informed decisions that address societal problems thereby contributing to an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future.

EvoKE is a diverse, open community that was seeded at the EvoKE 2017 - a successful meeting that took place in Porto, Portugal.

The next meeting - EvoKE 2019 - will take place from 26th to 29th September 2019 in Split, Croatia.

During these days, our international and interdisciplinary community will meet to learn, collaborate and develop creative and effective education and outreach projects.

We would therefore like to offer workshops and workgroup sessions around five major topics:

• common misconceptions in evolution and how to deal with them;

• personal communication: training in body language and persuasive communication, concluding with a script/screenplay of a short evolutionary stand-up performance;

• how to communicate effectively with media, and how to engage journalists with evolutionary biology work and messages;

• how to organize an outreach event: identifying needs, finding partners and funders, planning actions and engaging with the public;

• how to evaluate the impact of an outreach event and use this information to improve it.

• producing and evaluating educational activities in evolution for different age groups.

Do you have experience or expertise in one of the six topics listed? Do you have other great ideas that you could offer to the Evoke community not listed above? Would you like to share your expertise with the EvoKE community? Then apply to organize one workshop at EvoKE2019!

Deadline for applications February 28th.

More information on the workshop formats and on the application process here: https://evokeproject.org/workshops-at-evoke2019/

Proposals can be submitted to evoke2019 at gmail.com

The EvoKE2019 team



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