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10 reasons why we must share our research to the public

Science – and nobody cares! While the media is filled with gossip and trash, a high number of school children fears physics and biology. Meanwhile people, not working in the science sector, are excluded from brilliant results, because they don’t have an access to hidden online libraries. It’s about us to have a change!

1.      Imagine a world, in which teenagers don’t admire Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber, but fill the walls in their room with posters showing the current Nobel Prize winner for physics.

2.      Research’s aim is to improve, to create and to understand and therefore contains many positive aspects. It could change our perception of our world, filled with wars, conflicts and poverty towards a more positive image.

3.      Research is the answer for young children asking the question “why do you we go to school?” School helps to gain basic knowledge and the first step towards a career in the science sector.”

4.      If we encourage young people to become a scientist, the number of scientist and researchers will increase, including the number of ideas, questions and answers we have.

5.      The university has no more money for your PhD? If the majority of our society would be more aware about science, we could be sure, also the institutional attitude would shift towards more support.

6.      Science is mostly about people or at least about the things they are interested in. So they have the right to know about it.

7.      Researchers, especially international projects, prove that people with different backgrounds, nationalities and ideas can collaborate and create something new.

8.      Research is about understanding. If we understand the world we live in, we can improve it.

9.      Science is more creative than most people would imagine. There is no limitation concerning the questions a researcher is allowed to ask and further, no restriction to find the right answer. And the result is always the same: more and more questions! You’ll never get bored!

10.   Science is something we can touch, feel, smell and see. Something real. And there is nothing more fascinating than reality!