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In this chapter, I offer some observations on the evolving communication functions of research universities in eight countries. I report on the MORE-PE: Mobilisation of Resources for Public Engagement with Science research project (2016–2020), which examined the public communication activity of institutes within research universities and large research institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, the United States, Brazil and Japan. I call this the meso-level of the organizations, where the research action is located but for which we have little or no empirical data. I describe communications practices, target audiences and rationales for communication by research institutes with a focus on country comparisons and make use of the data to advance our understanding of how science communication is growing at the institute level across regions of the globe.
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The MORE-PE Project (Mobilisation of Resources for Public Engagement) (2016–2019) was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Technologia (grant agreement PTDC/IVCCOM/0290/2014) and coordinated by Marta Entradas (principal investigator). National collaborators were Martin Bauer (UK), Giuseppe Pellegrini (Italy), Frank Marcinwoski (Germany), John Besley (US), Pedro Russo (Netherlands), Luisa Massarani (Brazil), Osako Okamura (Japan), Liu Xuan (China) and Yui-Yuh Li (Taiwan, China).
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Entradas, M. (2021). Science Communication on Offer by Research Institutes in Eight Countries. In: Schiele, B., Liu, X., Bauer, M.W. (eds) Science Cultures in a Diverse World: Knowing, Sharing, Caring. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5379-7_3
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