Public engagement is necessary to improve effectiveness of a project or policy on science and technology or regional development. It is important for significant public engagement to address the following issues including spatial design, process, facilitation and management. 1. Engage with local place and community Grasp the context of local place and community where people… Continue reading Communication Training Manual for Positive Engagement
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Belgium-Japan Joint Workshop on Citizen Science
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
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
A grain of pepper – about the project
There is a common saying in Japan that “a grain of pepper may be tiny but it still is sharp on the tongue” – Good things come in small packages. As one of the packages, this EU-funded two-year project (Sep 2018-Aug 2020) is called PEPPER – Positive Environment in Public Participation and Engagement for Responsible… Continue reading A grain of pepper – about the project