What does our daily work look like in 10, 20 or even 50 years? How do new technologies change factory buildings and offices? Which occupations will still exist? How can I adapt to the changed working conditions? Do I still have to work or do machines and algorithms take over my tasks? In 2018, the Science Ship invites its visitors to get to the bottom of these questions.

"Once again, we humans are at one point in history where the upheavals in the workplace unsettle us or even frighten us. There is a lack of guidelines and utopias on how our work environment will look like in the future. Science can help here. It deals with important issues of the future, such as the connection between work and health or possible rules for cooperation between man and machine," says AWI Director and Chair of the Steering Committee of 'Wissenschaft im Dialog" (WiD), Professor Antje Boetius at the opening.

Organiser of the tour in the Science Year 2018 is 'Wissenschaft im Dialog' (WiD) on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Research institutes from all over Germany have made exhibits available for this purpose. The ship, formerly carrying coal and containers on European waterways, is now a floating science centre. The various scientific exhibits invite you to try out and participate. On the deck of the exhibition ship there are workshops, discussion events and film evenings around topics such as lifelong learning, digitalisation or work-life-balance.

More details on the travelling exhibition in German language - click here.