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ESF Member Organisation Forum Science in Society
Relationships

Inproving interaction with society urge for
strategy action ESOF2012 session How to
motivate scientists to engage with the
public Camilla Modéer co-chair ESF MOF SiS 15
July 2012
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ESF Member Organisation Forum Science in Society
Relationships

• The SiS Forum 20010 - 2012
• 29 Research Funding and Performing ESF Member
• Organizations from all over Europe
• 4 Forum Workshops including expert lectures
• Survey
• Case Studies
• Conclusions and Recommendations

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ESF Member Organisation Forum Science in Society
Relationships

• SiS Science for the benefit of Society and
  Society for the benefit of Science
• Diversity of context and cultures and a lot in
  common
• all sciences
• a variety of societal actors should be involved
• rewards to individuals and institutions
  necessary
• communication is (only) part of the answer a
  need for change of culture in the scientific
  community
• sufficient funding must be ensured
• evaluation of quantity, quality and impact a
  key
• issue

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ESF Member Organisation Forum Science in Society
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• Recommendations
• Every Research Funding or Research Performing
  Organization, RFO/RPO, need
• Commitment in policies and strategies shared
  by all employees
• Actions (funding, activities.) appropriate to
  objectives, context and culture

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ESF Member Organisation Forum Science in Society
Relationships

• Learning and improving
• Principles
• common views on SiS are emerging in Europe
• learn from each other and share best practices
• join capacities to develop common needs
• experiment
• Instruments
• networks sharing experiences
• common agreement(s)
• joint development of indicators, methods of
  evaluation, impact assessment etc
• research on SiS, its importance and impact

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ESF Member Organisation Forum Science in Society
Relationships

• Rewarding Researchers and Institutions
• Introduce evaluation methods and indicators
• Activities
• Resources financial and human
• Impact measurements
• Indicators simple, transparent, accepted
• Make SiS intrinsic part of funding and merits
• SiS requirements at grant application and in
  reports
• Use SiS as a differentiator in peer reviews
• Start to collect data on SiS
• Allocate money for SiS in grants and for
  SiS-promoting activities
• Consider SiS for promotion, salary and funding

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ESF Member Organisation Forum Science in Society
Relationships

• Conclusions
• Much is done, more is needed, development
  required
• Embedded in culture responding to new
  challenges
• Clear Commitment to SiS in policy and strategy
• SiS activities and processes with
• - Quality, transparency and experiments
• - Researchers rewarded for SiS achievements
• - Networks sharing experiences and best
  practices
• - Jointly develop systems for indicators,
  evaluations
• and impact assessment

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