Science communication and transfer

In professorship announcements as well as in research funding, knowledge and technology transfer and science communication are more and more named as evaluation criteria. For applicants, this means that they should be aware of the results that their research funds will generate for society and how these can be communicated to the public.

Possibilities for communicating scientific content to a non-scientific audience include lectures, discussion events, or contributions to the media (radio, newspapers, television) that are aimed at a broader audience. At JLU, so-called science slams are also enjoying a certain popularity, in which research results are passed on in an appealing manner to an audience outside the field.

At JLU, the topic of transfer is located in the staff department Knowledge and Technology Transfer. Here you can obtain information on contract research and service projects, patents, licenses and contacts with various partners from business and industry. Interested parties from all departments are advised by the Entrepreneurship Cluster Mittelhessen on all topics related to spin-offs. TransMIT Gesellschaft für Technologietransfer mbH also plays a central role in knowledge and technology transfer at JLU. TransMIT is dedicated to the marketing of innovative technologies and services from the three Central Hessian universities (JLU, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, THM).