Registration by December 15, opening in January with Senator Elena Cattaneo
He will leave in January 2024, First edition of the Master in Scientific Communication from the University of Turin. This is an innovative course, which will be Managed by a mixed teaching staff: The lessons, in fact, will rotate University professors and non-academic expertsand based on journalists, Which will address topics of current scientific interest.
The main goal of the Master is to create professional figures capable of communicating effectively with various audiences interested in research and innovation in the scientific and healthcare fields. In fact, it aims to provide students from various educational and professional fields (scientific, technical, humanistic) with sufficient capacity and operational tools to collect and transmit advanced scientific and technological information in an understandable and rigorous way, to interact effectively with research champions in different fields, to organize structures aimed at institutional communication, and to promote and manage Scientific culture initiatives.
Complex and highly topical topics will be covered, such as the subject Gender medicine, artificial intelligence, nutrition, the COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiology and genetics, bioethics and the animal world.
“In my professional career, both academic and journalistic – he explains Director Mr. Silvia De Francia, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences at the University of Turin and a journalist – realized how difficult it still is to communicate scientific topics correctly. Of course, the academic and journalistic worlds communicate, but they often seem to use different registers. This Master’s degree was born precisely from the growing urgency to integrate these registers, to improve the dialogue between these two fields. Teachers need to learn to communicate their discoveries more appropriately, and journalists need to learn how to use scientific sources in the correct way possible.
“A clear example of this urgency – he continues – Rather, it was mismanagement of communications during the Covid-19 pandemic: The way the news was reported was often wrong, and errors were made by almost everyone, from academics, doctors, journalists, and institutions themselves, leading to great media confusion. Hence, the session will see academic and non-academic teachers, psychologists and experts from various sectors engage in conversation with journalists.”
Lessons will be held For one or two Saturdays a month, from 9.00 to 18.00, in person At the AOU San Luigi Gonzaga Educational Center in Orbasano (TO), but it will also be possible to follow them electronically. The Masters will be organized in 12 thematic daysEach of them is divided into two units. Each unit will be divided into two lectures and half an hour of discussion. The two lessons in each unit will address the same topic but in a different way: one will be delivered by a professor from the University of Turin or an external specialist; The second was written by an expert journalist in the sector.
“The course – concludes Dr. De Francia – will start in January with an opening ceremony held by Senator Cattaneo, and then the lessons will continue throughout 2024. We already have a fair number of registrations with participants coming from various different specializations.”
the Registrations will close on December 15, 2023 The maximum number of members is 30 people: details can be found on the website Master – Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences – University of Turin (unito.it).
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