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SCIENCE, CULTURE & SOCIETY 

Stardust Impact is a nonprofit organisation connecting science, culture, and society through storytelling, public engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration

STARDUST APPROACH 

Stardust Impact is a nonprofit organisation working across science, culture, and society. We collaborate with researchers, educators, innovators, cultural practitioners, and organisations to develop projects and public engagement initiatives that bring different forms of knowledge into conversation. Our work takes many forms including educational programmes and projects,  public engagement formats, documentary films, and interdisciplinary collaborations. The intention is consistent. We bring research, lived experience, and cultural perspectives into dialogue.

 

We often speak about social impact as if it were something that can be delivered or measured from a distance. We approach it differently. For us, impact begins earlier. It begins when understanding expands.

 

When a researcher encounters a perspective that reframes their work.

When an educator recognizes a connection beyond their discipline.

When an innovator connects their work to the people and realities beyond their own field. 

 

Knowledge does not act on its own. It is interpreted, shared, and applied through people, relationships, and culture. 

Sometimes it becomes the basis for a new collaboration.  Sometimes it changes professional practice. Sometimes it changes how people understand the world around them. Our role is to create the conditions where these encounters can happen across research, culture, innovation, and society, and between people who would not otherwise share a table.

 

This is where we locate impact. In perspectives, decisions, and relationships that become different because understanding has deepened.

WHAT WE DO 

1

Impact Studio 

We collaborate with researchers, innovators, organisations, and cultural practitioners to develop documentary films, interviews, and other  public engagement formats connected to science, innovation, and societal questions.

Our work focuses on making complex work understandable, human, and relevant beyond

its own field.

2

Science & Society Lab

We support organisations and companies working across research, innovation, and societal change in clarifying the broader relevance of their work. 

This may include strategic positioning, communication, visual interpretation, stakeholder engagement formats.

3

Collaboration Projects 

We develop interdisciplinary projects connected to research, education, culture, and societal questions. The projects bring together researchers, innovators, cultural practitioners, organisations, to explore

shared challenges through collaboration,  engagement, and exchange of perspectives.

Follow for stories, tools, and updates from our work in social impact.

NGO Stardust Impact works in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on social sustainability, and supports UNESCO’s Open Science Priority Area 1 — fostering a culture of open science and advancing public engagement.

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