Last 9-14 of July, took place in Toulouse (France) the 8th edition of ESOF(EuroScience Open Forum), the largest interdisciplinary science meeting in Europe. The initiative was dedicated to scientific research and innovation: hundreds of conferences, workshops and debates were joined by scientists, innovators, policy makers, business people, offering a unique framework for interaction and debate.
Particularly aligned with REACH project principle of participatory approaches was the scientific programme, which highlighted and questioned the interplay between science and society: in this context specific attention was dedicated to discuss the role of scientific advice in modern society.
The session, titled “Citizens and science advice – challenges and opportunities of participatory science advice” explored ways of engaging citizens at different stages during the development of science advice, in particular on questions which are of direct concern to civil society (such as climate change, health and environment-related issues, digital rights and cyber security).
The session was presented by different structures delivering science advice to governments, including the European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (SAM), science advice bodies from European Member States, the European Academy Networks and national Academies.
Attendants debated and shared experiences and lessons aiming to identify best practice which includes an interactive discussion with the audience on new ways of bringing science advice and citizens closer together.
Horizon, the EU research & innovation magazine detailed the opinions expressed by the speakers, all remarking the importance to involve civic society into science advice mechanisms and all acribable to this statement: “The scientific community needs to listen more to people outside academia if it wants to continue to help politicians create good evidence-based policies that will benefit the public”.
Read more about ESOF 2018
- MEDIA PARTNER
-
-
- RELEVANT NEWS from Digitalmeetsculture
- Call for papers, deadline15th September - event to take place at the FernUniversität in Hagen 23 – 24 November 2023
-
- REACH-CULTURE POPULAR TAGS in Digitalmeetsculture
- #participateinculture 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage Best Practices Budapest call for papers Charles University citizen participation civic engagement Conference and events conferences and events Coventry University cultural heritage cultural participation digital preservation Eötvös Loránd University EU projects Europa Nostra European citizens European Commission European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 EYCH H2020 Horizon 2020 innovation Institutional Heritage Pilot MEMOLA project MEMOLab Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico minority heritage Minority Heritage Pilot Open-Heritage Platform participatory approaches participatory approaches to cultural heritage Prague preservation Promoter SRL Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation REACH project resilience Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe Roma Roma cultural heritage rural heritage Rural Heritage Pilot Small Towns Heritage Pilot sustainable development UNESCO University of Granada urban heritage workshop