Call For Interest at Politecnico di Milano

The School of Management of the Milan Polytechnic invites expressions of interest for one Post-doc position in the area of Sociology of Science & Technology. The position is for one Full-time Postdoc for 1 year, renewable for 2 additional years. Tenure track opportunities are envisaged afterwards. The Postdoc will conduct research full-time at the intersection ... Call For Interest at Politecnico di Milano

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Responsible Innovation, a Narrative Approach, by Jonathan Hankins

The latest Responsible Innovation publication, Responsible Innovation, a Narrative Approach by Bassetti Foundation Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins has just been published through the Doctorate School of Bergamo University. The book is based on Hankins’ PhD thesis of the same name, in which he investigates one of the Bassetti Foundation approaches to thinking about responsibility in ... Responsible Innovation, a Narrative Approach, by Jonathan Hankins

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Get it! Twice, Call for Solution

Sei un ricercatore, uno studente o un professore? Hai una soluzione innovativa nelle aree telehealth & home caring con focus su: comunicazione medico-paziente a distanza, supporto all’assistenza domiciliare integrata per anziani non autosufficienti e riabilitazione fisica e cognitiva per bambini e adulti a distanza? Allora candidati ENTRO 30 giugno 2020 a Get It! Twice. La ... Get it! Twice, Call for Solution

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Flash Recommendations on COVID-19 Emergency

Authors: Angela Simone, Douglas Robinson, Federica Lucivero, Agnes Allansdottir, Mario Calderini, Denise Di Dio, David Guston, Francesco Lescai, Ralf Lindner, Marzia Mazzonetto, Guido Romeo At the end of February, Lombardy was the first territory in Europe to be struck by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, having to learn to tackle the epidemic in real-time. Since then, Lombardy ... Flash Recommendations on COVID-19 Emergency

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Human Brain Project (HBP) – PhD Scholarship

A PhD opportunity is available with the EU Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP), based at De Montfort University’s Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR). The successful applicant will undertake research under the supervision of the HBP DMU team, currently consisting of five Research Fellows and a Professor. They will investigate ... Human Brain Project (HBP) – PhD Scholarship

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Research for orientation and cooperation after the COVID-19 crisis, the Rococo initiative

An initiative has been launced at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) within the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), with the aim of pooling efforts in technology assessment and related future-oriented fields of study in order to create resources of orientational knowledge for the world after the COVID-19 crisis. During a phase ... Research for orientation and cooperation after the COVID-19 crisis, the Rococo initiative

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Collaboration during COVID-19 | Bottom-up and open source initiatives: report them here!

( Update: April 9, 2020. We therefore await your reports to: anticovid19@fondazionebassetti.org ) Finding concrete answers to the needs emerging from the pandemic. From the 3D printing of respirator valves to systems for tracing contagion in real time, from the production of protective clothing that help prevent the contagion of medical workers to protein folding ... Collaboration during COVID-19 | Bottom-up and open source initiatives: report them here!

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PhD Position in the field of Ethics in the Life Sciences, Wageningen University

Wageningen University (NL) have advertised a post for a PhD candidate in the field of ethics in the life sciences, doing ontological and ethical investigations of cell-factories and their applications. The position is part of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies Gravitation program, a new ten year long international research program of seven universities in ... PhD Position in the field of Ethics in the Life Sciences, Wageningen University

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Public Engagement in Responsible Research and Innovation. A book by Ilse Marschalek.

A critical reflection from the practitioner’s point of view. Book Review Introduction In the open access publication Public Engagement in Responsible Research and Innovation, Ilse Marschalek investigates the roles that a group of people that she names ‘Public Participation Practitioners’ play in the attempt to transform the relationship between science and society though the adoption ... Public Engagement in Responsible Research and Innovation. A book by Ilse Marschalek.

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RRI Special Feature in the Project Repository Journal

The Project Repository Journal (PRj) is the European Dissemination Media Agency (EDMA)’s flagship open access publication, dedicated to showcasing funded science and research throughout Europe. Projects that are funded either by the European Commission, through one of their current schemes such as with an ERC grant or via Horizon 2020, or which have received a ... RRI Special Feature in the Project Repository Journal

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Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of Smart Specialization Strategies: TRANSFORM project

TRANSFORM stands for Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of Smart Specialization Strategies, through new Forms of Open and Responsible Decision-Making and is our second Horizon 2020 project. This time will commit us to leading a consortium of thirteen partners: TRANSFORM will engage us for 36 months, together with the institutions of Lombardy, Catalunya and ... Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of Smart Specialization Strategies: TRANSFORM project

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The SIENNA Project. Webinar on technology, legal issues and human rights challenges 5 March 2020

The SIENNA project addresses ethical issues in three new and emerging technology areas: human genomics, human enhancement and human-machine interaction. These areas all come with major socio-economic impact and raise issues related to human rights, the project aiming to identify and assess ethical issues and risks and produce three ethical frameworks. The SIENNA project has ... The SIENNA Project. Webinar on technology, legal issues and human rights challenges 5 March 2020

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