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Learners remember 10% of what they read; 20% of what they hear; 30% of what they see; 50% of what they see and hear; 70% of what they discuss with others; 80% of personal experience; 90% of what they teach someone else.

We aim to understand how integrating people into open and inclusive science-focused virtual communities can facilitate Informal Learning and lead to a more informed public capable of evidence-based decision making. We also aim to develop improvements of Place4Us and the VCC software to facilitate more Informal Learning.

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[Apr. 19, 2025] A Call to Action for Humanity: The new book by Rutger Bregman is a “Call to Action for Humanity” (Trevor Noah). Read the extract in the Guardian.

[Jan. 22, 2025] Join the Deliberation in the Deliberation Room "From Knowledge to Wisdom": This Deliberation focuses on how we can transform education to help students understand the difference between knowledge and wisdom and to gain wisdom out of their studies. Among others, we aim to understand to what extent critical reading integrated in studies can help to achieve these outcomes. Come and join the deliberation ...

[Jul. 06, 2023] Building Community: The ILearn VCC is in the process of building a community for informal learning. You are invited to join ...

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[May. 22, 2026] DRG VCC opened: The "Disaster Risk Governance VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[May. 21, 2026] NEXUS VCC opened: The "Food-Water-Energy Nexus VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[May. 09, 2026] Doomsday Clock is Getting Closer to Midnight: In January, the Doomsday clock was set to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest setting since it was established in 1947 in response to the threat of nuclear war. Sophie McBain in her article “‘The odds are not in our favour’: who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about the future of humanity?” emphasizes that with the wars on Iran and on the Ukraine, the rapid and largely uncontrolled development of AI and the climate breakdown all together increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war, the clock now stands closer to midnight than ever before. She asks the question of whether we can buy ourselves more time.