Speaker Details

Asger Hoeg, born 1947, graduated from Technical University of Denmark 1972 and received a Bachelor of Economy from Copenhagen Business School in 1979. Hoeg was Deputy Director of the Postal Services from 1981 to 1988; he is the Executive Director of the Experimentarium Science Center since April 1988. Hoeg was Founding Father of ECSITE in 1990; he was Treasurer, Vice President and President of ECSITE in the period from 1998 to 2007; he is Vice President of The Siemens Foundation in Denmark, on the Board of he Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, on the Science Center Committee of Norway, and on the Board of Archeologic Research Center Lejre. Hoeg is also External Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School.

Presentation Abstract:

"From 1991 to 2002, Experimentarium was a classical science centre with 6.000 m2 exhibitions, of which 1.200 m2 occupied two temporary exhibition halls. In 2002, we decided to introduce a new strategy bringing Experimentarium from an exhibition institution to a multimedial science communication institution. Since 2002 we have exercised a lot of different science communication activities which can be stratified in the following categories: School activities (teaching material to the exhibitions, school competitions, consensus conferences, power point lectures, school events (robots, champignons, soap bubbles etc.) and school-in-residence at the Experimentarium). Developing new teaching methods (Xciters project and Xperiment project). Developing new teaching materials (web based). Courses in science communication (teachers, students and journalistst). News in science research (national science research portal). TV-production of science news. Research in science communication. All this is now taking place everey day in the Experimentarium creating a lot of synergy between the different departments and projects."

Status: Confirmed