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Sciences Citoyennes and Horizon 2020

mercredi 4 juillet 2012
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FSC and other NGOs have been fighting for more than a year for a fairer and greener program for Horizon 2020, the research and innovation framework program of the European Commission.

See here the  Open Letter to the European Commission concerning the Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding (2014-2020), sent by more than 100 organizations of researchers and from civil society : Open Letter on the Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding Lire le reste de cet article »

Publié dans : Democratisation of science, FP8 |

5th Living Knowledge Conference (LK5) in Bonn (2012)

jeudi 10 mai 2012
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Re-imagining Research Relationships – Co-creating Knowledge in a Democratic Society

This conference will provide an opportunity for policy makers, academics and civil society organisations to consider current practice and future opportunities in the field of research partnerships.

The 5th Living Knowledge Conference will set its focus on different themes to get more insight in processes, and develop specific policy recommendations that resonate with public concerns and articulated research needs and built on the experience and know-how of the previous LK conferences in Leuven, Seville, Paris and Belfast. It will be an opportunity to bring together some of the key thinkers and practitioners in the area of community based research, university/community partnerships and Science Shops and aims at providing options and opportunities for collaborations and ensuring that this area of work is prioritised on policy agendas both nationally and internationally.

The conference will also be a platform to exchange and discuss findings and results of the first half of the PERARES project. PERARES (Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society) is a project which has been awarded financial support by the European Commission as coordination action in the 7th Framework Programme for broarder engagement on science-related questions and structuring public engagement in research.

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Project « Co-construction of knowledge and of decisions in research: the example of participatory plant breeding in agri-environment »

mercredi 29 février 2012
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The project « Co-construction of knowledge and of decisions in research: the example of participatory plant breeding in agri-environment », was directed by the  Fondation Sciences Citoyennes, in partnership with the Réseau Semences Paysannes (Peasant seeds network). The project was funded by REPERE program called Network of Exchange and Projects for Research and Expertise Governance. The French Ministry of Environment implemented it.

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Publié dans : Third-sector of knowledge |

Innovation, Sustainability, Development – A New Manifesto

mardi 4 janvier 2011
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The STEPS Centre from the University of Sussex published this Manifesto  in 2010.

The Manifesto states at its beginning: « We live in a time of unprecedented advances in science and technology. The world is ever more globalised and interconnected. Yet poverty is deepening, the environment is in crises and progress towards the Millenuim development goals has stalled. » Lire le reste de cet article »

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Entretien avec le lanceur d’alerte Ignacio Chapela

vendredi 1 octobre 2010
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Ignacio Chapela

Ignacio Chapela

– You were a researcher, you became – without looking for it – a kind of David versus Goliath, involved in the battle of the South against the North, of peasants against seeds transnationals. In other words, you are now the incarnation of what is a whistleblower. Is it a « heavy load » or are you claiming it loudly ?

First I must declare something very important : I am only one of very many people who find themselves in the cross-hairs of the corporate machinery. The only difference of my case is that I survived, more or less, their attack. Many others have not fared with the same luck that I had : people die from this, many others have lost their jobs and with this their capacity to be heard in public. So it is not a question of heroics, or one in which I (or any other individual) displayed unusual powers (as I think David is supposed to have done against Goliath). The reality seems to be more and more that we are all really more like a swarm of many people who oppose what has happened to our science, to our environment, to our society. The privilege (and the burden) is on those of us who are lucky to have received the charge of representing the public. Lire le reste de cet article »

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