Towards the holy grail of open knowledge, better research and involved crowds.

Open Science, Citizen Science, Science Communication are labels often used for ideas and methods aiming at democratizing the scientific process and making knowledge accessible to all. Open Science, an umbrella term for Open Access publishing, Open Data, Open Source and many more “Open”, promises unrestricted and unlimited sharing of knowledge among all stakeholders, particularly in the digital realm. Citizen Science utilizes crowdsourcing of knowledge and resources to make the scientific process more diverse and inclusive, and thus more efficient. Science Communication, in turn, serves the purpose of an information and translation service to make science and technology understandable and approachable for the masses. What happens when the crowds are replaced by AI in citizen science? Does Open Science deliver on the promise of open knowledge for all? How come that radical-analog science communication appears to be still the most effective in our digitalized society? Join us for a discussion on the new developments in Open Science, Citizen Science and Science Communication and how they can work together towards a truly scientifically and technologically literate and involved society. Panel discussion with Prof. Henry Sauermann from the European School of Management and Technology Berlin (research on Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science), Dr. Luiza Bengtsson from the Falling Walls Foundation (expert on Public Engagement and Open Science), Dr. Ana Alonso-Serrano from SoapBox Science (researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) moderated by Anisia Petcu from the Falling Walls Foundation (project manager for the Berlin Science Week).