Dr. Matthias Begenat has been invited as an expert to a hearing of the Committee on Science in the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The occasion is the proposal “Support the Bundestag Initiative, Set Own Impulses: NRW Can Help Shape Science Communication at the State Level” (Document 18/12018), which will be discussed in the State Parliament on May 7, 2025.
His written statement for the hearing is available on this website.
Additional statements, also available on this website, were submitted by:
- Dr. Charmaine Voigt, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Julia Wandt, co-initiator and co-coordinator of Scicomm-Support
- Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels, Chair of the Rectors’ Conference of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Jörg Weiss, con gressa GmbH
- Prof. Holger Wormer and Prof. Dr. Oliver Ruf, Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research (RRC)
- Dr. Philipp Niemann, Managing Director of NAWIK gGmbH
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Archut, University of Bonn, State Spokesperson NRW of the Federal Association for University Communication
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Grosse, Spokesperson of the Rectors’ Conference of the Arts and Music Universities in NRW
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Kriegesmann, Chair of Universities NRW – Rectors’ Conference of the Universities of Applied Sciences
The hearing will be broadcast live on May 7, 2025, starting at 1:30 PM.