The objective of this work is to analyze and evaluate the need to create a training in science communication at the University of Panama. From this perspective, we focused on analyzing the positions and opinions of the different estates involved in the process of communication of science, inside and outside the institution. For this, documentation and results from existing studies were analyzed, interviews were conducted and three surveys were applied to different actors of the professional and academic gear of social communication and science and data were compared. Our results indicate a great demand for a specialization in social communication of science from both professionals who do science and social communicators and a great interest in promoting this area by both academic and government institutions. These results justify the need to create a training in social communication of science at the University of Panama in order to form communicators who will acquire the skills and master the tools of plural communication of science to achieve a better dissemination of the scientific knowledge produced in Panama and in the world for Panamanian citizens.
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