„Bacteriopolis – the Hidden Life of Microbes“ – A traveling exhibition on bacterial multicellularity –

SPP 2389的目标不亚于一个范式转变，将反映在未来的教科书：细菌生命是多细胞的！然而，打破长期形成的想法不仅需要明确的科学证据，正如SPP 2389将创造的那样，还需要科学和社会的说服力。事实不仅要不断地被质疑，而且要以一种随着时间的推移可以被接受并慢慢取代过时知识的方式来准备和传播。在这方面，科学传播是SPP 2389的一个重要关注点。我们的目标不仅是说服科学界，而且是将新发现直接传达给公众。这一目标特别具有挑战性，因为在过去几年中，我们看到越来越多的人对科学及其成就持怀疑态度，甚至敌视态度。为了弥合以研究为导向的创造性塑造未来与科学怀疑主义以及社会和政治幻灭之间的差距，需要新形式的参与性研究和平等、低门槛的科学传播-在人们的生活中和生活周围。SPP 2389旨在通过多媒体，多语言和互动的巡回展览来实现这一目标，该展览以易于理解的方式解释SPP的主题，并激发公众对科学的兴趣。正因为如此，展览将在忙碌、火车站前或作为城市节日的一部分举行。它将在SPP合作伙伴的地点以及农村地区展出，并将使用翻盖，抽屉，有趣和多媒体元素来唤醒每个人的发现精神并吸引他们的感官。SPP将使用模拟和数字通信工具的整体组合来推广巡回展览和配套计划，其中包括研讨会，小组讨论和其他活动形式。这包括目标群体感兴趣的新闻工作、网站和社交媒体渠道。为了实现从单细胞细菌到多细胞生物的范式转变，将为讲师和学生举办特别研讨会，并将在研讨会上培训SPP的科学工作人员，使其成为未来的科学传播者。这样，每个人都成为信息倍增器，从而提高了优先方案的可见度。通过SPP合作伙伴的传播部门和公共关系办公室的支持，巡回展览和伴随的计划将成为该地点活动日历中的一盏明灯，以及有关细菌多细胞性知识的倍增器。因此，SPP将减少怀疑，增加科学兴趣。

The SPP 2389 aims at nothing less than a paradigm shift that shall be reflected in future textbooks: Bacterial life is multicellular! However, breaking down long-established ideas requires not only clear scientific evidence, as the SPP 2389 will create, but also persuasion in science and society. Facts must not only be constantly questioned, but also prepared and communicated in a way that they can become accepted over time and slowly replace outdated knowledge. In this respect, science communication is an important concern of the SPP 2389. The goal here is not only to convince the scientific community, but to communicate the new findings directly to the general public. This aim is particularly challenging, since over the past few years, we observe an increasing number of people who are sceptical or even hostile towards science and its achievements. In order to bridge the gap between a research-guided, creative shaping of the future on the one hand, and science scepticism combined with social and political disillusionment on the other hand, new forms of participatory research and equal, low-threshold science communication are needed – in and around people’s lives. The SPP 2389 aims to achieve this by means of a multimedia, multilingual and interactive traveling exhibition that explains the topics of the SPP in an easily accessible way and sparks the public’s interest in science even in passing. For this very reason, the exhibition will be presented at busy locations such as markets, in front of train stations or as part of city festivals. It will be exhibited at the locations of the SPP partners as well as in rural areas and will use flaps, drawers, playful and multimedia elements to awaken everyone’s spirit of discovery and to appeal to their senses. The SPP will use a holistic combination of analogue and digital communication tools to promote the traveling exhibition and the accompanying program, which consists of workshops, panel discussions and other event formats. This includes press work, websites and social media channels of interest to the target group. In order to achieve a paradigm shift from bacteria as unicellular to multicellular organisms, special workshops for and with lecturers and students will take place, and the scientific staff of the SPP will be trained in workshops to become future science communicators. In this way, each individual becomes an information multiplier and thus increases the visibility of the Priority Program. Through the support of the communication departments and public relations offices of the SPP partners, the traveling exhibition and the accompanying program will become a beacon in the location’s calendar of events, as well as a multiplier of knowledge about bacterial multicellularity. The SPP will therefore achieve a reduction in scepticism and an increase in scientific interest.