Involving society in science : Reflections on meaningful and impactful stakeholder engagement in fundamental research
Garrison, Helen (Vetenskap & Allmänhet (Estocolm, Suècia))
Agostinho, Marta (EU-LIFE Alliance of Research Institutes Advocating for Excellent Research in Europe (Barcelona, Espanya))
Alvarez, Laura (CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Bekaert, Sofie (Ghent University)
Bengtsson, Luiza (Max Delbrück Center)
Broglio, Elisabetta (Centre de Regulació Genòmica)
Couso, Digna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Araújo Gomes, Raquel (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência)
Ingram, Zoe (Max Delbrück Center)
Martinez, Emma (Babraham Institute)
Mena, Ana Lúcia (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência)
Nickel, Dörthe (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Institut Curie)
Norman, Michael (Babraham Institute)
Pinheiro, Inês (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Institut Curie)
Solís-Mateos, Marta (Centre de Regulació Genòmica)
Bertero, Michela (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Data:	2021
Descripció:	7 pàg.
Resum:	The concepts of Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation call for a more transparent and collaborative science, and more participation of citizens. The way to achieve this is through cooperation with different actors or "stakeholders": individuals or organizations who can contribute to, or benefit from research, regardless of whether they are researchers themselves or not. Examples include funding agencies, citizens associations, patients, and policy makers (https://aquas. gencat. cat/ web/. content/minisite/aquas/publicacions/ 2018/how_measure_engagement_research_ saris1_aquas2018. pdf). Such cooperation is even more relevant in the current, challenging times-even apart from a global pandemic- when pseudo-science, fake news, nihilist attitudes, and ideologies too often threaten social and technological progress enabled by science. Stakeholder engagement in research can inform and empower citizens, help render research more socially acceptable, and enable policies grounded on evidence-based knowledge. Beyond, stakeholder engagement is also beneficial to researchers and to research itself. In a recent survey, the majority of scientists reported benefits from public engagement (Burns et al, 2021). This can include increased mutual trust and mutual learning, improved social relevance of research, and improved adoption of results and knowledge (Cottrell et al, 2014). Finally, stakeholder engagement is often regarded as an important factor to sustain public investment in the life sciences (Burns et al, 2021). Here, we discuss different levels of stakeholder engagement by way of example, presenting various activities organized by European research institutions. Based on these experiences, we propose ten reflection points that we believe should be considered by the institutions, the scientists, and the funding agencies to achieve meaningful and impactful stakeholder engagement.
Ajuts:	European Commission 741527
Nota:	Altres ajuts: Ana Lúcia Mena was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology-FCT. Everything is New sponsored IGC's participation in NOS Alive Music Festival. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation funded IGC outreach activities at NOS Alive Music Festival and the "Embodying Memories" project. The Soy-in-1000-gardens project and the Liver project were funded within the Grand Challenges Program of VIB. This VIB Program received support from the Flemish Government under the Management Agreement 2017-2021 (VR 2016 2312 Doc.1521/4). Inês Pinheiro funded by ANR LabEx DEEP (11-LBX-0044, ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02) and by Institut Curie. We acknowledge support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to the EMBL partnership, the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa and the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Economics, Law & Politics ; History & Philosophy of Science
Publicat a:	EMBO reports, Vol. 22, art. e54000 (november 2021) , ISSN 1469-3178

DOI: 10.15252/embr.202154000
PMID: 34734669

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