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The EC H2020 funded Bioroboost project on standardisation in synthetic biology hosts an online Roundtable on Synthetic Biology and Education. One of the speakers will be Biofaction’s Markus Schmidt, who will be talking about different tools for education, ranging from games to interactive exhibition. It will take place on December…
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Our game “Battle for Cattle” will be featured at the European Researchers’ Night (ERN). The ERN takes place across Europe once a year and invites public to get a taste of everyday life of research institutions. This year the event will be held online on 27. November 2020. In addition…
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We’ve been invited to participate in an exciting series of online breakfast discussions hosted by the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, AIL – which is a unique initiative of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It’s designed to bring scientists, artists, designers and philosophers together over a good cup of coffee, all…
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We’re showcasing our latest game “Battle for Cattle” at GameDays 2020, an international conference on serious games! The event, organised by TU Darmstadt, will be held online on 18 May 2020 and it has a full program with a workshop, a panel discussion and a virtual tour through the WTT…
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While we’re reaching the end of the successful project MycoSynVac, we had the chance to organize several communication activities with the project’s game Battle for Cattle. We ran a classroom session in Vienna on February 27th, 2020 and used our educational package that was developed for accompanying Battle for Cattle…
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There are great news about the EU project eForFuel, which works towards replacing fossil fuel by recycling CO2:Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (Germany) have reached a significant breakthrough presented in their recent Nature Chemical Biology publication. Their research for EU project eForFuel has redesigned the model biotechnological bacteria Escherichia…
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Another exciting event for our science game! Together with our Viennese partner Wissens°raum from the Austrian Science Center Netzwerk, we organized an event for Battle for Cattle on Saturday, 14.12.2019. Wissens°raum is an amazing space for trying, tinkering and research. Kids alone or with their parents come by and experiment…
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Sex sells, even in the form of pheromons. Have a look at our new animation produced for DTU Copenhagen which explains the sex pheromones that Olefine is developing using synthetic biology as a replacement for insecticides. Conventionally the pest insects are sprayed with toxic insecticides to keep plants safe from…
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The Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI) invited us to produce and direct a series of short clips about their research fellows and the exciting topics they are currently working on. The short videos clips delve into the incredibly diverse research topics at KLI – from cognitive capacities and skills involved in…
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© Schlaulicht Schlaulicht is a German children’s podcast that creates playful episodes around interesting topics with a science and critical thinking approach. Their last episode (#66), aired on 11 December 2019, was about Artificial Intelligence. One of the characters Emil Van Ram, who is a robot, talks briefly about our…
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