Learning to write texts, that can present topics from the sciences to an interested public (in newspaper, non-specialist journals but also in papers for non-specialists in an academic context); to gain insights into the cultural, historical and philosophical contexts of science and the public.

Scientific knowledge is often provisional; it is subject to correction. That is why it cannot always satisfy the need for certainty and clarity that arises in the public as soon as political controversies are linked to questions of (scientific) knowledge. This is shown by the Corona pandemic, but not only by it.