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Three Driving Forces

(Qui in Italiano) Renewing the Foundation website in 2023 led us into contemplating what it means to have a website today, and not only to question what will still make sense (if it will make sense) five years from now, but also how that sense will be made. This led to a departure from what ... Three Driving Forces

Tommaso Correale Santacroce

Call: Innovative Implementation of the Partnership Principle in Cohesion Policy

Call for expression of interest. For the second time, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG-REGIO) is seeking proposals by public authorities and civil society organizations, interested in implementing innovative citizen participation practices in cohesion policy. Are you from a public authority and would you like to step-up citizen participation beyond information ... Call: Innovative Implementation of the Partnership Principle in Cohesion Policy

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Making Networks Happen: Cooperation for Sustainability Transitions

On March 1st, 2022, at the Milan seat of Confcooperative Lombardia, in the framework of POLITIKÉ, ‘the political school’ offered in collaboration with the Bassetti Foundation for Responsible Innovation, industrial biotechnologist Maurizio Bettiga and cultural anthropologist Cristina Grasseni jointly led a workshopping session involving 25 leading operators from the cooperative world (presidents, heads of service ... Making Networks Happen: Cooperation for Sustainability Transitions

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Nel 2050, Passaggio al Nuovo Mondo – Book review

Nel 2050, Passaggio al Nuovo Mondo (In 2050, Passage to the New World) is the latest book from Paolo Perulli, published in Italian by Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021. In his latest work, Economic Sociologist Paolo Perulli takes a retrospective and prospective position as we find ourselves at the half-way point of a defining moment in ... Nel 2050, Passaggio al Nuovo Mondo – Book review

Jonathan Hankins

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!

Anna Pellizzone

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.

Jonathan Hankins

Trust in expert knowledge in medicine and Technoscience. A meeting with Silvia Camporesi

Thoughts on Bioethics, public communication and participation. Index: report, video, slides, paper, photos. From health to technoscience, and from medicine to politics: trust in expert knowledge is progressively falling. This is a global phenomena, sitting intertwined within a complex relational system whose themes are public communication and participation, individual and collective narratives and power. But ... Trust in expert knowledge in medicine and Technoscience. A meeting with Silvia Camporesi

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CONSIDER Workshop, Civil Society Organisations in Designing Research Governance

CONSIDER, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Designing Research Governance, is an EU FP7 research project that aims to establish a model of CSO participation in research, based on conceptually sound and empirically rich research of best practices. CONSIDER state that they are keen to understand the perspectives of those with experience of working in research ... CONSIDER Workshop, Civil Society Organisations in Designing Research Governance

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Making Science Public

On Monday 11th of February The University of Nottingham Department of Sociology and Social Policy are having a public event to launch their 2013 Research program. The program is sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust in collaboration with the University of Warwick and the University of Sheffield and is titled “Making Science Public”. The Key note ... Making Science Public

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Dan Sperber at the European Congress of Analytic Philosophy

The Giannino Bassetti Foundation is one of the sponsors of the seventh European Congress of Analytic Philosophy taking place at the beginning of September in Milan at the San Raffaele University and The University of Milan. Continuing the tradition of the Bassetti Foundation lectures we have chosen to address the congress during a plenary session, ... Dan Sperber at the European Congress of Analytic Philosophy

Itinerary: Communicating Science

In light of the Bassetti Foundation’s announcement of their involvement in the 2012 Public Communication of Science and Technology Network conference and related call for abstracts for funding, Jonathan Hankins reviews some of the related materials available on the foundation website. ———————– The problem of the communication of science and innovation has been addressed many ... Itinerary: Communicating Science

The Royal Society, a font of information

Last year the Royal Society celebrated its 350th anniversary, a festival in which the Bassetti Foundation participated in the form of Cristina Grasseni’s visit to London and involvement in the Harvard University Science and Democracy Network international meeting, part of the celebrations. In the run up to this celebration the Royal Society established its Science ... The Royal Society, a font of information