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News 26 January 2015
What is RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation)? There are a number of possible definitions… Watch this video to see the European Union’s take on this question… and stay tuned for updates from the RRI Tools project, now entering its second year. 26 institutions from 30 countries are participating – including Ecsite and some of its members.
Calls 8 January 2015
As science engagement professionals, freedom of information and speech is core to our daily values and practices. We believe that science needs open-minded, democratic societies and unhampered exchange of ideas to thrive. We honour the memory of those who died in the Paris attacks. We will keep using our organizations’ power to engage millions of citizens in dialogue and foster tolerance in our societies.
News 7 January 2015
The latest Spokes is on its way to members right now… This is the last paper issue: we’re going digital in the spring. More in the coming weeks.
News 5 December 2014
The SeeingNano project will create novel visualisation tools for enhanced nanotechnology awareness. Social scientists, nano scientists and visualisation experts will collaborate to develop tools allowing different target audiences to “see at the nano scale” thus engaging with the breadth of nanotechnologies and the uncertainties and potential risks connected to them. A public repository of tools and best practices will be created.
News 28 November 2014
We heard recently that the EUSPACE-AWE proposal submitted with other partners under the Horizon 2020 framework has been successful. EUSPACE-AWE uses the excitement of space to attract young people to science and technology and stimulate European and global citizenship.
News 25 November 2014
Headquarters Magazine Europe, a publication aimed at association executives, features in its November issue an inspiring interview with our Executive Director, Catherine Franche. A good opportunity to read some thoughtful words about Ecsite’s beginnings and core mission, the challenges it meets, or its future as an organisation. Click the link below to discover it.
News 20 November 2014
EU Commissioner Carlos Moedas gave a speech at the Sis-RRI conference in Rome yesterday evening, in which he mentioned at length the Ecsite-led VOICES citizen consultation. He tweeted a picture with Ecsite Executive Director Catherine Franche and Pr. Jacqueline Broerse from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, stating: "glad to have met representatives from the VOICES project tonight".
Calls 18 November 2014
We are pleased to invite Ecsite members to join in a new Horizon2020 project that we are applying for as partners. You are invited to apply to be a Third Party on a new call under the topic: ‘Call for proposals to identify and implement novel ways to highlight the work funded by the ERC and reach out a wider public’
The ERC (European Research Council) is an EU agency dedicated to support frontier research.
News 29 October 2014
Last summer the European Commission launched a consultation to inform the 2016-2017 “Science with and for Society” Programme (part of the Horizon 2020 funding framework). You will remember that Ecsite called for contributions from science engagement organizations – the resulting statements were submitted about two weeks ago. We are now waiting to hear from the Commission when results will be made public.
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