Belgium-Japan Joint Workshop: Bridging STS Research on Citizen Science between Belgium and Japan The bilateral Japanese-Belgian research project ‘After and Beyond Fukushima: Probing the Role and Potential of Citizen Science in Nuclear Science and Technology Governance in Japan and Belgium‘ (2017-19) was led by social scientists based at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN), KU… Continue reading Belgium-Japan Joint Workshop on Citizen Science
Category: Meeting
Workshop on the Ethics of Molecular Robotics
Molecular robotics is an emerging discipline that aims to produce artificial molecular systems that can adapt to change in the environment, self-organize and evolve. By co-designing possible and desirable futures and co-creating the Ethical Principles, molecular roboticists in Japan have been collaborating with social scientists and stakeholders to participate in the governance of technology development… Continue reading Workshop on the Ethics of Molecular Robotics
Workshop on Opening Ethics Research and Research Governance
Open science and innovation comes to the fore in Horizon Europe by assimilating (or dissolving) thematic elements of RRI, but it remains unclear what is meant by ‘openness’ and how the existing ‘Science with and for Society’ (SwafS) concepts and practices (e.g. RRI, ELSI, TA) are related to such open approaches. One of the practical… Continue reading Workshop on Opening Ethics Research and Research Governance
EAD2019 – European Academy of Design
EAD2019 is the 13th European Academy of Design (EAD) International Conference held at Dundee, Scotland, 10-12 April 2019. As the conference title ‘Running with Scissors’ shows, the discipline of design has been evolving and changing quite rapidly in recent years. All the keynote lecturers, Craig Vogel, Ingrid van der Wacht and Ravi Naidoo in particular, were very enthusiastic about and proud… Continue reading EAD2019 – European Academy of Design
Recent activities (Feb – Mar 2019)
6 Feburary 2019: Attended the Norway-Japan alumni and researcher gathering fiscal year 2018 at Research Council of Norway (RCN) and presented “Public engagement for what? A light in the darkness”. Following this event, the 3rd Norway-Japan Academic Network Seminar was organised in the same location. The JSPS alumni club Norway is still under the formalisation process, but will create… Continue reading Recent activities (Feb – Mar 2019)