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Babeș-Bolyai University's strategy to bring academia closer to society. An interview with Daniel David
There is a major obstacle for researchers who want to communicate with the public: they have no institutional motivation to do so, quite the contrary. They are judged more on the results of their research (articles, books or chapters, etc.), and not at all on the number of press interviews, community events or experiments they do for children. At absolutely every researcher communication workshop I have given I have been asked this question at some point: So why would I communicate?