Nature Awards and scholarly publisher Springer Nature are collaborating with German pharmaceutical company Merck to raise awareness of science in a new competition, Science in Shorts. Shorts) ”will be held.
"Science in Shorts" is an original video in which scientists convey their research content and open it to the public to compete for evaluation.By deliberately creating a contest format, it is an attempt to widely convey science, which tends to be trapped in the world of specialists, to the general public and create points of contact between people and science.
You can apply for authors of articles published in the Journal of Nature Portfolio between November 2020, 11 and November 1, 2021.Anyone is free to apply, regardless of whether they are the lead author or the responsible author. Within the 11-second time limit, each applicant will be introduced to their research in a way that they deem appropriate.
The application period is from November 2021, 11 (Monday) to February 15, 2022 (Monday). The first round of judging will take place in July 2, and an interdisciplinary team of editors, journalists, filmmakers, researchers and communication experts selected from the entire Nature portfolio will select the top 28 works as candidates.Each of the 2022 selected works will be awarded € 7 and will be published on nature.com and YouTube.After the release, a vote will be held by the general public, and the "People's Choice" award-winning work will be selected from the final candidate works.
"The difficulty of science communication is well known, but it's becoming more and more important," said Richard Hughes, VP Publishing of Springer Nature. In this competition, science and the general public. We aim to close the gap with the public and enable scientists to share their research in an accurate and easy-to-understand way and to resonate with more people. "
