Willi Scholz

“As a project manager, I have already gained experience in managing projects in (participatory) science communication in the past. I support KielSCN with my expertise especially in project and knowledge management.”

IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
Project Manager

E-Mail: wscholz@kielscn.de
Telephone: +49 431-880 3158
Website

• since 2022: Project Manager Kiel Science Communication Network at IPN
• 2021 – 2022: Manager Public Sector Consulting at PwC – PricewaterhouseCoopers Germany
• 2015 – 2021: General Manager YES! – Young Economic Summit and advisor for science policy consulting at ZBW- Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• 2015 – 2017: Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Vesalius College, Brussels
• 2011 – 2015: Executive Director, Global Economic Symposium (GES) Center of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2011-2013: Deputy Executive Director)
• 2009 – 2010: Project Manager “Content and Communities” at the Global Economic Symposium (GES) Center of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
• 2006 – 2010: Doctorate at the Institute for Social Sciences, Kiel University
• 2001 – 2006: Studies of Political Science (major), Medieval and Modern History and English Studies/American Studies (minor) at Kiel University

• Linek, S. B., Schmidt, A., Scholz, W. (2021). Face-to-face versus digital meetings in science popularization initiatives: Usefulness, importance of pros and cons, and inhibitions to take part. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN 2021), 5th-6th of July, 2021 Valencia: IATED Academy, 2021, pp. 1800-1809, doi:10.21125/edulearn.2021.0419.
• Linek, S. B., Scholz, W. (2020). Public engagement in science: New ways of participative science communication and the practical use case of the YES!-project. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN 2020) Valencia: IATED, 2020, pp. 4612-4621.
• Scholz, W., Tochtermann, K. (2017). Wissenschaft und Digitalisierung. Science 2.0: neue Themen und Chancen im Wissenschaftsmanagement. In: Lemmens, M. u.a. (Hrsg.): Wissenschaftsmanagement. Handbuch & Kommentar. Bonn 2017, S. 860-871.
• Scholz, W., Tochtermann, K. (2017). Open Science: (Wissenschaftliche) Bibliotheken spielen eine zentrale Rolle. In: BuB 69 07/2017, S. 384-387.
• Bickel, L., Scholz, W., Tochtermann, K. (2016). Schülerwettbewerb zu ökonomischen Fragen bringt Jugendlichen Informations- und Medienkompetenz näher. In: Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 378- 384.

• 2015-2021: YES! – Young Economic Summit (Participatory Science Communication Project)
• 2020-2021: YES! MINT (Participatory Science Communication Project with STEM focus)
• 2021: YES! Bridge (Science and Education Diplomacy Project with participatory science communication elements)

• 2020: Meritum Award of the German Economy for the project YES! – Young Economic Summit
• 2021:  Award for Education and Science Diplomacy of the BMBF for the project YES! Bridge