You will learn a comprehensive design philosophy, process, and set of strategies tailored specifically for scientists to visually communicate your own complex ideas so your messages are effortlessly understood by scientists or non-scientists.
A structured, no fluff, memorable, easy to follow, useful and fun training that will empower and enable you to create effective images, slides, posters, and grants. You will imediatelly apply the new skills to communicate your own science, draw a graphical abstract and discuss it with your peers and receive actionable feedback on your images and slides.
Content
Self-study module—Mandatory Fundamentals, Slides, and Homework (5 h) before the Online Workshop
Particpants can attend a live online web-Seminar on 30 April 9:00–13:00 CEST or use the self-study material provided.
- Fundamental Visual Communication: understand how human visual perception and psychology shape our interpretation of visual information. Discover a science-based design method to visualize your research, making it easily comprehensible. We will cover strategic use of layout, eye-flow, colors, and typography applied to all types of scientific images.
- Slides, Posters, Grants: you will learn how to apply the Seyens Method™ design philosophy and strategies introduced in the Fundamentals to slides, posters, and grants. This will give you a holistic approach that builds from the first principles, makes sense and is easy to remember and apply.
- Homework: submit your images and slides to receive personalized feedback. . Images related to your grant proposals will be prioritized.
Live Workshop: Focus on Grants — On Zoom (4.5 h) 16 May 2025, 09:00 – 13:30 CEST - Recap and Q&A: an effective review of self-study topics and optional 1-on-1 consulting with facilitator to address your individual challenges. Focus on using visuals in grant proposals.
- Feedback on your submitted materials: you will get actionable suggestions on how to improve your own scientific images and slides.
- Graphical abstract drawing exercise: you will draw a sketch of your research to be used in your grant proposal.
- Peer-instruction group discussion: you will give and receive informed and structured feedback to improve yours’ and other participants’ graphical abstracts.
Date and time
16 May from 9:00 to 13:30 CEST
Format
Online via Zoom, link will be provided
Please connect with a working audio and video device and expect to actively participate in the workshop with your camera on.
Trainer
Dr. Jernej Zupanc, Founder of Seyens Ltd.
Target group
Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the ENGAGE.EU partner universities
Language of instruction
English
Maximum number of participants
20
Registration
Please register until 10 April 2025 by writing to postdocs@uni-mannheim.de
with your university e-mail address. Please note that we can only consider registrations sent from your university e-mail account to ensure affiliation with an ENGAGE.EU partner university. If there are more registrations than available places, the participants will be drawn by lot and informed by 11 April. Please find information on the processing of your personal data in our information on data protection.
This workshop in collaboration with ENGAGE.EU and the Postdoc Career Academy at the University of Mannheim is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.