The Knowledge Exchange Office (KnEx Office) serves as a motor for targeted knowledge exchange between science and society within the Alliance. Researchers repeatedly emphasize the enormous productivity of flexible formats in generating new ideas. The KnEx Office supports the conception and implementation of such formats to promote joint innovation processes between scientists and experts from other fields. The integration of diverse knowledge bases helps to tackle societal challenges together.

Additionally, the KnEx Office assists the alliance's partner network in presenting its research to a larger, more diverse public and in organizing knowledge exchange events – for example, at the Humboldt Labor in the Humboldt Forum. This fosters long-term dialogue on current societal issues and potential solutions with representatives from science, Berlin's art and cultural scene, and civil society, and facilitates contacts.

The KnEx Office is accompanied by a scientific advisory board responsible for the analysis, development, and quality assurance of knowledge exchange activities. The KnEx Office sees itself as a central point of contact between science and society.

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Politics

In the political sphere, the KnEx organizes exchange formats between science, state and federal politics, and civil society. Examples include various exchange formats with the Federal Foreign Office, as well as parliamentary evenings with members of the Berlin House of Representatives and the German Bundestag.

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Culture & Creative Industries

In the field of culture and creative industries, the KnEx develops innovative knowledge exchange formats, including the cooking show Nerd's Kitchen and the Sciencefluencer program.

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On Water. Water Knowledge in Berlin

A joint focus of the KnEx Office together with the TD Lab since autumn 2024 is the program On Water. Water Knowledge in Berlin. With the formats DIALOGUES and PARCOURS, as well as the exhibition On Water opening in the Humboldt Labor, the Berlin University Alliance offers different approaches to Berlin's water research – for researchers, interested parties, and active individuals, for everyday and professional experts, for Berliners.

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Contact

Dr. Nina Samuel, Leader Objective 2 "Fostering Knowledge Exchange"
Tel.: +49 30/ 838-67824
E-Mail: nina.samuel@berlin-university-alliance.de

Thomas Lilge, Program Manager for Culture & Creative Economy
Tel.: +49 30 / 838-50463
E-Mail: thomas.lilge@berlin-university-alliance.de

Samuel Monigatti, Sachbearbeiter Knowledge Exchange Office
Tel.: +49 30 / 838-61494
E-Mail: samuel.monigatti@berlin-university-alliance.de

Francesca Sciarmella, Sachbearbeiterin Culture & Creative Economy
E-Mail: francesca.sciarmella@berlin-university-alliance.de

Thomas Wachtel, Program Manager for Politics
Tel.: +49 30 / 838-50820
E-Mail: thomas.wachtel@berlin-university-alliance.de