Transcript Science Shop

The Living Knowledge Network
Terza Scuola Estiva Mediterranea
3-5 October, 2012, Sassari,
Sardegna, Italy
Norbert Steinhaus
The International Science Shop Contact Point
‘Everyone has
the right freely
to participate in
the cultural life of
the community,
to enjoy the arts
and to share the
scientific
advancement
and its benefits’
Universal Declaration
of Human Rights,
Art 27(1) (United Nations, 1948)
University Missions
1. Education
2.2.Research
Research
There‘s more than just
Education and Research
3. Service to Society
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Civil society organizations
have their own research needs
Within the concept of
‘social demand’ for knowledge
there is an increasing
necessity for communication
from society to researchers.
Science Shops
are important actors in
Community Based Research
Definition
A Science Shop (is a unit that)
provides independent
participatory research support
in response to concerns
experienced by civil society.
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Science Shops
are organizations
created as mediators
between citizen groups
e.g. trade unions, non-profit organizations, social groups, environmentalists, consumers etc.)
and research institutions
e.g. universities, independent
research facilities
They are just one type of
interface between science
and its researchers and
society.
How Science Shops are
organized and operate is highly
dependent on their context.
There is not one dominant
organisational structure defining
a Science Shop.
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Organisational Structures
University based
Dutch Model
Central
Office
 Netherlands
 Denmark
 UK
 Germany
 Austria
 South-Korea
 Belgium
 Australia
 USA/ Canada
Mediation
Some:
Internships
Faculty
Office
US Model
CBR
Centres
Mixed
CURA
 Canada
 Netherlands
 Denmark
 USA
 Romania
 Denmark
 South (Canada)
Africa
 USA/
Canada
Research
Mediation
Non-university based
NGO as NGO (Univ.
incubator Relations)
 Israel
(CURA=
Community
University
Research
Alliance)
Participatory Participatory Mediation
Actionresearch
Research
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(Germany)
(Austria)
Romania
USA
Mediation
Research
NGO (Nonuniv.
related)
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Germany
Austria
Romania
USA
Research
Some:
Some:
Participatory participatory
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Science Shops - Science & Society Interfaces
Research
Result
Science Shops
• Demand driven
• No commercial
interest
• Publication of
results
• Feedback to
science
institutions
Issues
Civil Society
Organisations
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Demand
Community/voluntary groups
Environmental NGOs
Local/regional authorities
Schools/pupils
Patient groups
Labour unions
Religious groups
Individuals (sometimes conditional)
Clients
of
Science
Shops
Other: student organisations, museums,
police, parliamentarians/political parties
Some: other research institutes, SMEs,
larger firms/industry
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Mediation process
1. Receive/solicit clients and (new) questions
2. Map the problem (articulation)
3. Preliminary research: Refer, Refuse, Advice or Formulate
(scientific) research question ( and funds if required)
4. Find a (co-) supervisor
5. Find a student or researcher
6. Maintain communication and process
7. Facilitate useable presentation / publication of results
8. Help client implement results and formulate follow up
actions
9. Make inventory of follow-up research / themes
10. Evaluation
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Some examples of projects
• Traffic related air pollution and
respiratory health
• Cosmetics and environment
• Side-effects of pesticides
• Environmental education
• Health related risk communication
• Textiles, chemicals and allergies
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Environmental impact assessment
of products
• Animal welfare and animal testing
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Benefit and Success of Science Shops
Society
• Access for society groups to research
• Visibility of science for society
• Participation of citizens(empowerment)
Education
• Academic curricula, problem-oriented learning
• Students get aware of science and society issues
Research
• New research topics
• Scientist get aware of societal demands and needs
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From the 70’s to 2011
70’s
Netherlands, USA
80’s
Australia, Denmark, England, Northern Ireland,
Germany, Austria, France, Belgium
90’s
Canada, Spain, Romania, Norway,
00’s
Belgium, France, South Korea
Israel, New Zealand,
Malaysia, Czech Republic, South Korea, South Africa
2005 Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Japan, Wales, Scotland,
Ireland, Turkey, Finland,
2006 Hungary, China, Italy,
Iceland, Estonia
Israel, Czech Republic
2007 South Africa
2010 Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Israel, Norway
2011 New shops in Portugal, Germany, Canada, France
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International Science Shop Network
‘Living Knowledge’
General objective:
To give citizens around Europe (and beyond)
better access to
scientific information and expertise!
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Living Knowledge
Practical Use
• Increase of visibility and accessibility
• Exchange of information
Internat.Contact Point (24 nat. contact points),
Discussion list, Newsletter and Magazine,
Website, Conferences (Seville 2005, Paris 2007,
Belfast 2009, 2012 in Bonn, next 2014 in
Copenhagen)
• Dissemination of results
magazine and newsletter, database(s), linking
networks,
Get visible:
The cooperation in
international projects
lead to a world wide
recognition of the
Science Shop model
• Mentoring and training
consultancy, advise, exchange, Science Shop toolbox,
summer schools
• Research Cooperation
ecology, urbanisation, environmental education,
health, social issues ...
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MinForeignAf
EC & Science Shops
MATRA-RUG-Romania
SCIPAS (2000 – 2001)
INTERACTS (2001 – 2003)
ISSNET (2003-2005)
1998-2000 / 2002-2005
STRATA-AM
STRATA-AM
GACER (2008)
RPA-TN
[ACCENT (NoE) ]
International Science Shop Network
LIVING KNOWLEDGE
TRAMS (2005-2008)
[ CIPAST (CA)]
[SpidERA (SSA)]
[ EFSUPS (SSA)]
S&S-CA
[ InMoSion ]
[ VECTOR ]
• Science Shop Call 2006
[ WINDFARMperception ]
[ NewCom ]
• FP 7 – PERARES (2010-2014)
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Science Shop
- Wetenschapswinkel
- Boutique
de Science
- Videnskabsbutiken
- Wissenschaftsladen
- Bazar
de las Ciencias
- InterMediu
PERARES is a project which has been awarded
financial support by the European Commission
as coordination action through the contract no. 244264 in FP7 (Area 5.1.2.1
Broader engagement on science-related questions, SiS-2009-1.2.1.1 Structuring
public engagement in research (PER).
Developed and performed by (and for)
Science Shops,
Universities and CSOs
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Activities
Debates and dialogues on science and research
– Science Festivals, Science Centers and Cafés
– On-line dialogues
– Pilot international debate: Nanotechnology
(www.livingknowledge.org/discussion/diskutiere)
Setting research agenda’s with CSOs
– Dialogue between Research Labs and CSOs
– Structuring PER: Domestic violence, Local Human Rights
A network of research bodies
 9 new Science Shops
 Potential role of Higher Education & Research Councils
 Evaluation packages - Conferences
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GACER
Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research
“network of networks”
• to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and
information across continents and countries
• to enable interaction and collaboration
• to further the application and impact of
community-based research for a sustainable
just future for the people of the world
http://communityresearchcanada.ca/?action=alliance
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Science Shop
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- Boutique
de Science
- Videnskabsbutiken
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de las Ciencias
- InterMediu
GACER
Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research
• 3rd Communiqué on Sustainability, Knowledge
and Democracy
• 2nd Communiqué on North-South Cooperation
in Community-University Engagement
• 1st Declaration as a focus for global organizing
to support and strengthen CommunityEngaged Research as a fundamental means of
mobilizing and creating knowledge
Activities of GACER led to a UNESCO Chair for CommunityBased Research and Social Responsibility in Higher
Education, co-chaired by Universtiy of Victoria and PRIA
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Science Shop
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- Boutique
de Science
- Videnskabsbutiken
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- Bazar
de las Ciencias
- InterMediu
We only have to step out of the front door to face
all the challenges which are taught in the lectures!
Thank you for your attention.
Norbert Steinhaus
[email protected];
+.49.228.2016122
Henk Mulder (PERARES coordinator)
[email protected] ; +.31.50.363.4436
International Science Shop Network
‘Living Knowledge’
www.livingknowledge.org
Internat. Science Shop Contact Point
[email protected]
Bonn Science Shop www.wilabonn.de
Participatory research - What happens right now?
• Civil society acts on research and technologies since a
long time
• CSOs and CSO coalitions on broad issues like
agriculture, climate change, economic justice, women
rights, environment, etc. link more and more to
questions of R&I, and express own research demands
• some CSOs focus on specific research domains and
technologies
• they act on the local, regional, national and international
level
• they are watch-dogs, force of proposals & alternatives,
partners of different actors including scientists
10 reasons why
Participatory Research is interesting AND necessary
1. The research and innovation that is prioritised and funded
today will have a decisive impact on the future of our
societies and our planet. It depends largely on underlying
principles and values, how it is governed, and by whom.
2. Participatory research integrates divers forms of
knowledge (professional, empirical, local, traditional, etc.)
acknowledging that (techno)-scientific knowledge is
necessary but not sufficient to solve current problems.
3. The division between experts and "laymen" (users of
knowledge) leaves the place to a relation of dialogue and
co-production of knowledge and innovations thus
mobilising the immense reserves of creativity, of curiosity
and of intelligence existing in our societies.
4. Participatory research counter-balances the current
strong push to public research-private industrypartnerships.
5. Participatory research pushes to reconsider the
notion of « scientific excellence ». It brings new
questions
into
research,
creates
other
(scientific)knowledge while covering a wide range of
issues.
6. PR contributes to the transition to sustainable
management of scarce resources, including water,
land use and soil management, mitigation of climate
change,
preservation
of
biodiversity,
marine
ecosystems and forestry, renewable energies, …
7. PR&I benefits from high social acceptance since it
integrates concerned people.
8. PR (can) question(s) current dominant paradigms
such as economic growth.
9. Participatory research with CSOs has a huge potential
to contribute to a socially and ecologically more just
society but still remains marginal and marginalised.
10. PR improves policy making since it creates a larger
knowledge basis.
There is some (modest) public support to
participatory research
Universities and research institutions
Support to Science Shops
Participatory projects of individual scientists
(toxicologists, ecologists, sociologists, urban
development, …)
Regional
France: 3 regions out of 22 have a regional participatory
research programme (PICRI, ASOSC, Chercheurs-citoyens)
National
Canada: Community university research alliances
EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agronomic Research Institution)
European
Framework programme for R&D
Support from other structures, e.g. Private foundations
Recommendations - some principles for
good governance and public participation practices
Overcome the myth that only highly complex and cost
intensive technologies can create employment, sustainability,
and well-being,
Ensure that the concept of innovation includes locally adapted
and social forms of innovation,
Facilitate cooperation and knowledge exchange between civil
society organisations and academia in order to realise the
innovative potential of the non-profit sector,
Establish a democratic, participatory and accountable
decision-making process for research funding allocation,
Open academic and policy attention to the fact that there are
alternative possible orientations for progress,
Recommendations - some principles for
good governance and public participation practices
Acknowledge the value of CSO participation to research and
map research needs of the non profit sector,
Reward public engagement of scientists, increase the support
to participatory research and encourage the professional
mobility of researchers to CSOs,
Take public participation for serious not only as an annexe,
Seek for major non productiviste innovations, allow and
support plurality in technology choice,
Support decentralised governance, decentralised energy
supply, locally adapted and produced agriculture, etc.
The Bonn Science Shop
Terza Scuola Estiva Mediterranea
3-5 October, 2012, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
Norbert Steinhaus
Wissenschaftsladen Bonn e.V.
Reuterstr. 157 – D 53113 Bonn
[email protected] - www.wilabonn.de
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Bonn Science Shop
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Established 1984, about 50 members
Non-profit-association
non-university based
Professional staff of >30 (18 FTEs)
in a flat, collective structure
Budget 2,1 Mio EUR
No external funds
for Science Shop idea
Demand driven and creating own
fields of work
Partner in EU funded projects:
„SCIPAS“, „ISSNET“, „TRAMS“,
„CIPAST“, „EFSUPS“, „PERARES“
and „ComScience“
The Bonn Science Shop
Members
•Decision structure
Employees
Board
Council of Delegates (Delegiertenrat)
Manager
Decision
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Elected
Delegates
Bonn Science Shop
Cooperation Partners
Science Shops – NGOs / CSOs –
Universities - Science Museums – Science
Communicators - Research Institutes –
City Administration(s) - Labour Unions –
Companies– SMEs - Associations –
Schools and Kindergartens
Funding / Financial Resources
Local & (Inter)National Foundations
City Administration(s) – Associations
State Ministries - Federal Ministries and
Agencies - European Commission Donations – Paid Services - Companies
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Where is the
expertise?
Why working with a
non-university based
Science Shop?
• Know How
(subject,specialist)
• Recognised Mediator
Communicator
• Links and Contacts
(Networks, CSOs and
NGOs, Citizens)
• Manpower and
commitment
• Less bureaucratic
Fields of Work
• Labour Market
• Environment & Health
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ComScience
Organization of 5 public dissemination events, experts
from University of Bonn (on stem cell research, GMOs,
obesity, allergies and asthma, food contaminants)
• Education
• Civil society and sustainability
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Visualizing of land use:
co-operation with University of Bonn, Giessen Science
Shop and University for Pedagogy Karlsruhe
Events with local agenda communities to increase
public participation, Internet-presentation
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Follow up projects (exhibition, teaching materials,
role plays, computer games)
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Region in Balance (Land Use Mangement, Regional
Administration(s), activists, stakeholders