Spring Event 2025
Full Program
9:30 Picking up name badge & coffee
10:00 Opening by Inge Mulder, board member Young@Heart
10:05 PR Challenge: “Going Viral”
10:15 Keynote: Professor Marjolein van EGMOND: From Bench to Talkshow Table
Professor in oncology and inflammation; Principal investigator at the Department of Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology; Staff member at the Department of Surgery at the Amsterdam UMC.
11:00 Marc SHAMIER: Breaking news or breaking science: navigating the media
Infectiologist | Virologist, Amsterdam UMC & GGD – PhD candidate Erasmus Medical Center
11:15 Coffee & cookies
11:30 PR Challenge: Posting on your social(s)
11:35 Hanneke REINDERS: Explaining the importance of your research to our supporters
Communications Officer Dutch Heart Foundation
11:50 Marcos ROSS: Stress navigation – Communicating your science, just for the fun of it
Podcast creator, PhD candidate at the Amsterdam UMC.
12:05 Hein-Jan KEIJZER: How to address your target audience?
Commissioning editor, BNNVARA
12:20 Discussion panel with morning speakers
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Start Workshops
Workshop 1: NETWORKING: effective networking skills
Workshop 2: IMPACT: communicating with non-experts
16:00 Closing remarks & Award Challenge “Going Viral”
16:20 Drinks & bites @Café Olivier
Workshop information:
Workshop 1: NETWORKING: effective networking skills
In the end, communication is a large part of your work. Whether you talk about your research, planning, supervision, or about the weather in social interactions: we couldn’t do without communication. Communication is also a skill: you can prepare, analyze, and influence communication. Personal styles and goals of the other person and yourself create an interaction and define the outcome. Learning how to apply different techniques helps you get what you want, and maintain positive relationships. In our experience, our scientific participants learn eagerly and enjoy communication training a lot!
Workshop 2: IMPACT: communicating with non-experts
In this training you will learn to increase your societal impact and improve collaboration with non-experts – people with a completely different background. As a scientist, you communicate with many different people who do not have your expertise: members of assessment committees, policy makers, politicians, clients, citizens, journalists, and also colleagues from other disciplines. You can apply these skills when collaborating within and outside projects, networking, obtaining funding, and dealing with the news media.