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ACADEMIA/FOCUS meets My Science
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Few minutes to introduce you…
2) ACADEMIA - EURAC's popular science magazine
4) FOCUS – EURAC’s popular science online-magazine http://www.eurac.edu/focus
5) Publication opportunity the editorial board offers to My Science participants
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ACADEMIA
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Key Numbers about ACADEMIA
• 51 issues (born in 1994): from bulletin to magazine
• 8,000 copies
• 4,000 subscriptions
• 0 euro > free magazine
• 3 main languages: English, German, Italian
• About 25 articles per issue
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Who reads ACADEMIA?
• non-expert readers (dentist's surgeries, public libraries, waiting rooms, parents and grandparents)
• students
• research partners of the EURAC institutes
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Who edits ACADEMIA?
• 2 directors• editorial board: 3 journalists
Peter Fabridge, Sigrid Hechensteiner, Valentina Bergonzi• contributing writers: researchers, occasionally external
journalists (mainly for free)• photo editor• graphic designer• contributing designers
What can you find in ACADEMIA?
EURAC’s scientific projects, events, publications, etc.
Topics developed in a wider perspective: interviews, reports, reportages, and so on.
Article Structure
Mumiya mia! We knocked our best heads together to come up with what could possibly be some of
the most incisive questions on mummy studies ever asked, and then put them to our
resident expert, Albert Zink, Head of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman.
The most important question first: Have you
seen “The Mummy”?
Zink: I think so. Is that the movie about the
Egyptian mummy that comes back to life?
That’s the one. Would you describe it as scientifically
factual?
Zink: No. Mummies don’t come back to
life. But it is true that mummies are always
trying to tell us something. Mummies
have secrets in their tissues that
are a resource for modern medicine. In
this way, perhaps, mummies are still very
much alive and kicking.
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Key Numbers about FOCUS
• 2004: year of birth
• 3 main languages: English, German, Italian
• So far over 400 articles published
• On average 10.000 visits a month www.eurac.edu (250 FOCUS)
• Topic changes every 2-3 months
By May 2010 EURAC website will be re-designed. The FOCUS section will be turned into a blog allowing a closer interaction with readers
Who edits FOCUS?
• editorial board: 4 journalistsDaniela Mezzena (coordinator), Peter Fabridge (English), Sigrid Hechensteiner (German), Valentina Bergonzi (Italian)
• contributing writers: researchers, occasionally external journalists (mainly for free)
• photo editor
• video editor
• web designer - IT
Publication opportunityFocus (spring 2010) / ACADEMIA 52 (May 2010) will be the product of a build-up process that involves all My Science participants.
• FOUR of the best articles per workshop will be published in ACADEMIA • TWO of the best articles in FOCUS.
We are glad if you write for our media. It’s an additional chance. That’s not compulsory!!!
Editing ACADEMIA 52 - FOCUSTraining session / Editorial meetings to be held during each workshop: task assignment, guideline presentation, guidelines for structuring an article, tips for a popular science article.
Review, evaluation and selection of the best articles by two editors: Jan Dabkowski and the editor responsible for the workshop.
Personal coaching(via e-mail/phone/skype): first article draft, processing, etc.
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Special issue: within 15th May 2010
• general introduction about My Science (red sofa)
• 24 articles: scientific topics from the six workshops
• languages: mainly English, translations to be scheduled.
Italian and German as mother tongue.
Final Results - ACADEMIA
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Final Results – FOCUS
Special topic: current
• general introduction about My Science (red sofa)
• 12 articles: scientific topics from the six workshops
• languages: mainly English, translations to be scheduled.
Italian and German as mother tongue.
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Sigrid Hechensteiner
Scientific Communication Dept. EURAC
Since 1995
Background
School for interpreters in Vienna
Other activities
Editor in chief of ACADEMIA since 1996
Scientific page in Dolomiten
Editorial board FOCUS
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Daniela Mezzena Scientific Communication Dept.
Background
Sociology in Trento
Other activities
Press officier (italian)
Coordinator FOCUS since 2008
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Valentina Bergonzi
Scientific Communication Dept. EURAC
Background
History in Bologna/Graz
Master degree Web Journalism IED Milan
Other activities
Vice-editor in chief of ACADEMIA since 2005
EURAC science cafè
Radio programme RAI
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