On 25-26 April 2024 one of the planned HarSval workshops was held in the Center for Scientific Information and Academic Library (CINiBA) in Katowice.
The workshops were addressed with experts in communication and marketing of science and innovations, scientific journalists, experts in political sciences with expertise in law-making/policy-making based on scientific/expert knowledge, science diplomacy, NGOs and other structures specializing in science/knowledge communication and dissemination to the general public.

The main organizer of the workshops: “Scientists as Knowledge Brokers and Better Science Management as a Synergy Effect of the Polish-Norwegian Collaboration” was Dr. Monika Szkarłat (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin). The workshop discussion was also moderated by Dr. Katarzyna Mojska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin) and Dagmara Bożek (Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences).
The invited experts were:
• Prof. Pierre-Bruno Ruffini (University of Le Havre Normandie)
• Dr. Volker Rachold (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI))
• Dr. Mitchell Young (Institute of International Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University)
• Prof. Jacek A. Jania (University of Silesia in Katowice)
• Prof. Piotr Glowacki (Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Dr. Piotr Celiński (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
• Dr. Charlotte Gehrke (Nord University)
• Dr. Wojciech Szczerbowicz (University of Wroclaw)
• Magda Łucyan (Fakty TVN and TVN24)

For the full program and experts: [CLICK here].
The next workshops will be held in autumn in Norway, all events are part of WP4 of the HarSval project.

We share a brief photo-report from both days of the workshop held at CINIBA, and from the reception at Guido Coal Mine in Zabrze.