EUSEA training
for YOU
EUSEA has launched a new Skill Training Programme – a series of short, hands-on sessions designed to strengthen practical skills in science engagement.
Each session focuses on doing, not just discussing: participants dive into focused activities that build expertise in areas like event design, storytelling, facilitation, partnership-building, evaluation, and more.
✔️ Compact & accessible: Each training is a stand-alone, half-day session that you can fit easily into your schedule.
✔️ Interactive & practical: Learn from experienced practitioners and walk away with tools you can apply immediately.
✔️ Community-driven: Sessions are designed by and for the EUSEA community — shaped by real needs and shared experiences.
Whether you’re a science communicator, museum educator, researcher, or student eager to expand your toolkit, this programme offers a fresh way to learn, connect, and grow.
What you should know:
- Open to everyone, with reduced fees for EUSEA members.
- We’ll begin with a few pilot trainings to test and refine the format.
- This is your chance to highlight the skills you want to learn and suggest trainers (including yourself!).
- To ensure transparency, Board members and Office staff won’t deliver the pilots – instead, external trainers and nominated members will be invited
- The cost of the training is as follows:
- EUSEA Member – 100 EUR
- Non-Member 350 EUR
- I hereby confirm that I am becoming a member starting in 2026 – 100 EUR
Our next trainings…
Using AI for EU funding applications
by Eric Jensen from the Institute for Methods Innovation
Feb 05 2026, 09:30-12:30 CET
AI can speed up the grant-writing process, but without the right skills, it can produce generic or off-target proposals that fail to convince funders. This practical workshop shows you how to use AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to streamline your workflow, strengthen your arguments, and produce polished, funder-focused applications. You will learn how to shape persuasive narratives, tailor content to funder requirements, and use AI to simplify complex ideas while maintaining accuracy and credibility. This training session will focus in particular on EU funding proposals, particularly those under Horizon Europe.
Key topics covered in this training session include: • A step-by-step process to plan, draft, and refine proposals with AI.
• Methods to align applications with funder priorities.
• Strategies to simplify complex ideas without losing depth.
• Ways to use AI for data, visuals, and supporting evidence.
• Ethical guidelines to ensure originality, accuracy, and attribution.
More about Eric Jensen
Professor Eric Jensen is a social scientist with 20+ years of experience in social research, impact evaluation, public and policy engagement.
In addition to publishing research in leading academic journals on topics relating to public engagement, Professor Jensen has served as a trusted advisor, trainer and consultant for many of the world’s leading research institutions, research funders and public policy bodies.
He has trained over 25,000 researchers, policy and engagement professionals. Professor Jensen is co-founder of the Institute for Methods Innovation (methodsinnovation.org), a non-profit organisation registered in Estonia and Ireland that is a partner and grant-writer for EU projects.
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AI in Public Engagement: Protecting Sensitive Data and Reducing Bias
by Johanna Barnbeck from Spread the Nerd
Feb 26 2026, 09:30-13:30 CET
Sensitive data and AI – how do they fit together? Anyone working with AI needs to take data protection seriously. In public engagement and scientific contexts, handling sensitive personal and research data with care is essential. At the same time, many cloud-based AI tools process everything you enter, and it is often unclear how this information is stored, used or shared. This four-hour online training introduces practical strategies and easy-to-use desktop tools that help you work with AI while keeping sensitive data secure. A second focus of the training is the issue of bias. AI systems often reproduce stereotypes, reflect non-diverse training data and can reinforce existing assumptions. As public engagement professionals, we can take an active role in counteracting this. The training explores how to push AI systems toward more diverse, evidence-based and accurate outputs.
More about Johanna Barnbeck
Johanna Barnbeck is an expert in audiovisual science communication and format development. Having trained as a cultural analyst and artistic researcher, she oversees the production process, produces creative concepts, and offers consulting and support for science communication. She gets particularly excited about creative science videos and audiovisual formats. She has served as a jury member for the Fast Forward Science film prize and for the university competition Year In Science, as well as teaching at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany’s National Institute for Science Communication (NaWik), and the University of Tübingen. She’s passionate about using modern communication to work creatively in the areas of tension between theory and practice.
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Upcoming Trainings …
This session marks the launch of a new series of training events that will be rolled out over the coming months. As we continue to build this programme, we will be seeking experienced facilitators and subject-matter experts to help us deliver high-quality sessions on a range of key topics—including Evaluation Practice for Communication, and EU funding and Public Engagement.
More information about each upcoming training event will be shared soon. If you’re interested in participating, contributing, or simply staying informed, we encourage you to get in touch—and keep an eye on this space for updates!
