Fast For­ward Sci­ence: Win up to €3,000

Fast For­ward Sci­ence, the mul­ti­me­dia com­pe­ti­tion for sci­ence, is once again look­ing for the best sci­ence con­tent on social media. Still until 07 Feb­ru­ary inter­est­ed par­ties can sub­mit entries for one of the awards, which are endowed with a total of €23,000.

The com­pe­ti­tion

Fast For­ward Sci­ence is a mul­ti­me­dia com­pe­ti­tion orga­nized by Wis­senschaft im Dia­log and the Stifter­ver­band and has been held annu­al­ly since 2013. It hon­ors social media con­tri­bu­tions that deal with cur­rent sci­ence and research. Whether stu­dents, doc­tor­al can­di­dates, post­docs, or expe­ri­enced sci­en­tists - there is the right award for everyone!

The main com­pe­ti­tion is all about mov­ing images. Inter­est­ed par­ties can sub­mit up to three video entries in dif­fer­ent categories.

Image: © Fast For­ward Sci­ence | fastforwardscience.com.

The cat­e­gories

Video cat­e­gories

YOUNG SCIENTISTS AWARD

1st place: € 3,000 | 2nd place: € 2,000 | 3rd place: € 1,000

The Young Sci­en­tist Award is aimed at any­one who is still at the begin­ning of their research career: Stu­dents, PhD stu­dents and young post­docs who want to bring their research to as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble. No mat­ter how much expe­ri­ence you already have with social media — the impor­tant thing is that you explain your sci­en­tif­ic inter­est in an excit­ing way. The part­ner of the Young Sci­en­tist Award is the Ger­man Future Prize.

SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTION AWARD

1st place: € 3,000 | 2nd place: € 2,000 | 3rd place: € 1,000

Do sci­ence and social media go hand in hand for you? The Sci­en­tist & Research Insti­tu­tion Award is aimed at all sci­en­tists with a doc­tor­ate or work­ing in research who com­mu­ni­cate sci­ence and research in video con­tri­bu­tions — com­pre­hen­si­bly, pre­cise­ly and enter­tain­ing­ly. Team­work is express­ly per­mit­ted, because this cat­e­go­ry also wel­comes sub­mis­sions from entire research cen­ters or uni­ver­si­ty institutes!

TANDEM AWARD

1st place: € 3,000 | 2nd place: € 2,000 | 3rd place: € 1,000

Com­mu­ni­cat­ing sci­en­tif­ic top­ics can be quite a chal­lenge for many sci­en­tists in their day-to-day research. YouTu­bers, Insta­gram­mers, etc., on the oth­er hand, often lack the right experts for excit­ing top­ics from sci­ence. The Tan­dem Award is just right for col­lab­o­ra­tions between both worlds. Co-pro­duc­tions by sci­en­tif­ic insti­tu­tions and sci­flu­encers or pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies can also be sub­mit­ted here.

SHORT AND CRISP AWARD

3.000 €

Excit­ing mul­ti­me­dia con­tri­bu­tions are not only avail­able in Ger­man. The Short & Crisp Award focus­es on inter­na­tion­al­i­ty. We are look­ing for enter­tain­ing sci­ence videos under 15 min­utes on social media in all lan­guages. The part­ner of the Short & Crisp Award is the SILBERSALZ Sci­ence & Media Fes­ti­val in Halle.

Spe­cial prices

In addi­tion to the video cat­e­gories, two spe­cial awards will be pre­sent­ed, offer­ing room for experimentation:

OPEN BOX SPECIAL

1.000 €

This spe­cial award knows (almost) no bound­aries and is suit­able for any­one who feels com­fort­able away from the mov­ing image focus. Here, par­tic­u­lar­ly inno­v­a­tive online for­mats of sci­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tion are sought. An enter­tain­ing pho­to essay from field research, a ded­i­cat­ed web­site for lab bac­te­ria or an inter­ac­tive online exhi­bi­tion: There are no lim­its to cre­ativ­i­ty in this category!

AUDIO SPECIAL

1.000 €

With this award, we close our eyes and lis­ten, because pod­casts, radio plays and radio fea­tures with sci­en­tif­ic con­tent also tell inter­est­ing sto­ries and get peo­ple excit­ed about sci­ence. The Audio Spe­cial Award hon­ors excit­ing, com­pre­hen­si­ble and tar­get-group-ori­ent­ed con­tri­bu­tions that do with­out any visu­al mate­r­i­al. Sci­en­tists, media pro­fes­sion­als and all audio­philes inter­est­ed in sci­ence can sub­mit entries!

Source: Wis­senschaft im Dia­log gGmbH