We’re excited to share the Call for Abstracts for the upcoming conference: “Science Communication in Europe: Diverging Paths, Shared Challenges”
The Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Klagenfurt invites scholars to participate in the 11th Annual Conference of the Science Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) “Science Communication in Europe: Diverging Paths, Shared Challenges”
We invite theoretical, empirical, methodological contributions, as well as contributions to scholarly debate, addressing science communication in Europe, across and beyond higher education and research, journalism, politics, industry, and society more broadly. Across all thematic areas outlined below, contributions may focus on science communication at transnational, national, regional, or local levels, including comparative perspectives across these different contexts.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Science communication ecosystems, institutions, and infrastructures
- Changing environments of science communication
- Audiences, stakeholders and relationships with science
- Comparative research, collaboration, and methodological perspectives
Abstracts should be submitted in anonymized form as Extended Abstracts in English between 15 November 2026 and 15 March 2027 via:https://www.conftool.net/SciCommInEurope2027