Benedikt Fecher on the impact of science
Are universities the best option we have? 
In this episode, Benedikt Fecher and Wouter talk about this question to discuss what research actually is and how we create knowledge in our society today. Science is not only about research and education, but more and more about trying to bridge the gap between scientific results and society. Also they speak about increasing science's actual impact on society and HIIG's recent project "twentyforty", an essay competition on the future of digital society in 2040.
In this episode: 
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<li><a href="https://www.hiig.de/en/benedikt-fecher/">Benedikt Fecher</a></li>
<li>his <a href="https://www.hiig.de/en/research/learning-knowledge-innovation/">research programme at HIIG</a></li>
<li>the <a href="https://elephantinthelab.org/">Elephant in the Lab</a> Journal blog</li>
<li>the <a href="https://elephantinthelab.org/meet-the-research-impact-canvas-a-structured-guide-for-planning-your-science-communication-activities/">Research Impact Canvas</a></li>
<li>our project <a href="http://hiig.de/twentyforty">twentyforty</a></li>
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Autonomous weapons

Join us on a journey into the realms of our digital society: In the new season of Exploring Digital Spheres our SET-project research team travels to five different countries on three continents in order to explore the intersection of sustainability and digitalisation and talk to local experts about their endeavours. 

In the first season of the podcast you got to know HIIG researchers and their diverse research backgrounds. We asked them how our digital society works and what its future might look like. Every other episode, the researchers entered into a dialogue with other digital mavericks!