About us
Our Mission
Our mission is to create low-threshold opportunities to encourage and support all researchers to communicate their work, by providing them with a safe space to learn SciComm skills through our different platforms and projects. We aim to show that good communication skills can make you a better researcher by uncovering hidden assumptions and reorganising your ideas about your work, while exploring how to create and improve the dialogue between research and society.
We are primarily based in Helsinki, Finland, and are a registered non-profit organisation (rekisteriyhdistys) in Finland.
Values
- Open to any level. We are a low-threshold entry point for doing science communication, to trainees with any level of experience.
- Flexibility. We contribute to our members’ wellbeing, not detract from it. Sometimes that means that we need to step away from our work with TSB and focus on our main job, and that’s OK.
- Experimentality. We are a space for novel, experimental science communication ideas. Sometimes these projects work out, and sometimes they don’t- and that’s fine!
- Diversity. We are open to members of all research areas, backgrounds, and abilities. Our main language of communication is English, but we welcome pieces of communication or project ideas in other languages.
- Quality. We balance openness and flexibility with high quality science communication.
Funding
The Science Basement has received generous support from: The Otto Malm Foundation (stipend granted in 2017), The Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and the Helsinki Institute for Life Sciences (HiLIFE), The University of Helsinki Doctoral School in Natural Sciences (DONASCI), and the Doctoral Programme in Materials Research and Nanoscience (MATRENA). We would like to thank our sponsors for supporting the work we do!
Current Members
alumni
