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| + | ====== Introduction ====== | ||
| + | - introduction of the BRCP and its goals to guests | ||
| + | - introduction of the workshop, the ideas and proposed topics: see notes below | ||
| + | - introduction of participants | ||
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| + | == Discussion Suggestions Florian == | ||
| + | - Who are " | ||
| + | * how fundamental is fundamental research today? | ||
| + | * how free is the freedom of science? | ||
| + | * is scientist as it is defined today a good job? | ||
| + | * and especially, can science be done differently? | ||
| + | * all these questions are fundamentally connected to the machinery that we are all part of and that we like to call " | ||
| + | * Thus it is almost inevitably to think science outside academia if we truly want to ask such questions | ||
| + | - Who are you? | ||
| + | * Introduction round for people to get to know each other | ||
| + | * scientists meet artists (why is this interesting? | ||
| + | - Science outside Academia: We believe that the structure and organization of science influences strongly the way we do science | ||
| + | * we will NOT discuss specific scientific topics, but want to talk about its structure. (That' | ||
| + | * when we relax the definitions of sciences that Academia sets, we will of course cross chances, but also many difficulties | ||
| + | * what actually is science if not what a scientist at an institute does? | ||
| + | * what is a scientist, if she or he does not have a contract from a scientific institution? | ||
| + | * if science and being a scientist could mean more than the tight definitions of academia allow for, can we do better outside academia? | ||
| + | * can research be done differently then in Academia? | ||
| + | * this is what we want to discuss during this weekend and as a start we chose two perspectives: | ||
| + | * we reduced the predefined program to a minimum to give us a maximal freedom for spontaneous new discussion topics or whatever we together decide to do here | ||
| + | - formalities: | ||
| + | * documentation: | ||
| + | * fee | ||
| + | * coffee/tea etc | ||
| + | * dinner | ||
| + | * evening in Potsdam/ | ||
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