What role does science play in the increasingly heated public discourses and debates? What credibility, what orientation and what fundamental consensus does it still endow in view of ever more circulating, semi-scientific and pseudo-scientific knowledge available, of "fake news" or "alternative facts"? To what extent do people still trust it? What special scientific expertises, competencies and abilities to shape does our society require in the 21st century in order to manage the "great transformation" and to develop sustainable, fair and ethically justifiable approaches and concepts?

The Bavarian Academic Forum – BayWISS wants to address these questions in cooperation with the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 25 September 2024 on the KU Eichstätt campus in Ingolstadt at the  

2024 BayWISS Annual Colloquium on
"Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen gestalten: Transformationskompetenz in Wissenschaft und Hochschule" (Shaping Societal Challenges: Transformation Competence in Science and Higher Education)

We especially want to address and critically analyse the prospects and potentials of transformative science for future development at universities and universities of applied sciences and at the same time want to provide cooperative BayWISS’ doctoral candidates with new impulses for their doctoral research.

https://www.baywiss.de/jahreskolloquium/2024/en