The PACITA project ”Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment” FP7: Mutual Learning and Mobilisation Action April 2011 – March 2015 Budget: ~ 5 Mio. €
Dec 25, 2015
The PACITA project
”Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment”
FP7: Mutual Learning and Mobilisation Action
April 2011 – March 2015
Budget: ~ 5 Mio. €
Overall aims
• Increase European PTA capacity• Enhance the institutional foundation for
knowledge-based policy-making• Build on diversity of practices in PTA• Key practices in focus are ”interactive”
– Engaging experts, stakeholders, citizens, politicians directly in the work
• Develop and test modes for trans-national and European interactive TA
History – the start• FP7 Science-in-Society program expected to
launch call on ”Mobilisation and mutual learning action plan”, spring 2009
• EPTA Director meeting 2009 decided to bid– EPTA members as partners or in an associated
network– Expanding PTA in Europe as a core aim countries
without PTA as important partners– Reach-out beyond the partnership important
History – the proposal• Brainstorm with EPTA members summer 2009 –
incl. indicating participation/status• Core group – DBT, TAB/ITAS, Rathenau, ITA,
NBT• Partnership beyond EPTA made through
networks
The Partners• Danish Board of Technology (Denmark)
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
• The Rathenau Institute (Netherlands)
• Norwegian Board of Technology (Norway)
• The Institute of Technology Assessment (Austria)
• Applied Research and Communications Fund (Bulgaria)
• Institute of Technology of Biology and Chemistry (Portugal)
• Institute Society and Technology (Flanders, Belgium)
• Catalan Institution Foundation for Research Support (Catalonia, Spain)
• Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment (Switzerland)
• Knowledge Economy Forum (Lithuania)
• Technology Centre ASCR (Czech Republic)
• University of Liège, SPIRAL Research Centre (Wallonia, Belgium)
• University College Cork (Ireland)
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary).
The PACITA action planCross-Europeanexample projects
Training TA
Documenting TA
Debating TA
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Expert-based
Stakeholderinvolvement
Citizenconsultation
Learning andcreating capacity
Open access toresults & praxis
Mobilising actors
Documenting TA
• Existing praxis in PTA institutions described by partner pairs (PTA+non-PTA partner)
• Potential work modes for cross-European PTA developed/described
• TA BookCross-Europeanexample projects
Training TA
Documenting TA
Debating TA
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Expert-based
Stakeholderinvolvement
Citizenconsultation
Learning andcreating capacity
Open access toresults & praxis
Mobilising actors
Training TA
• 2 Summer Schools for users and actors
• 4 Practitioners’ Meetings - thematic– Scoping and framing– Methodology– Networking and impact creation– Communication
• TA Portal– TA web-mining– Training materials– Web 2.0 facilities
Cross-Europeanexample projects
Training TA
Documenting TA
Debating TA
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Expert-based
Stakeholderinvolvement
Citizenconsultation
Learning andcreating capacity
Open access toresults & praxis
Mobilising actors
Cross-Europeanexample projects
Training TA
Documenting TA
Debating TA
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Expert-based
Stakeholderinvolvement
Citizenconsultation
Learning andcreating capacity
Open access toresults & praxis
Mobilising actors
• Expanding the TA landscape– Non-PTA countries analysis– Debates in the non-PTA countries (partner
pairs)
• 2 Parliamentary Debates– EU 27 and beyond - Relevant committees– 1: Documenting TA– 2: Expanding landscape
• 2 European TA Conferences• 8 issues of TA
Newsletter/magazine
Debating TA
3 cross-European example projects• European coordinated and synthesized,
based upon subactivities at national/regional level
• Expert based: Public Health Genomics• Stakeholder involvement:
Ageing Society Telecare• Citizen consultation:
Sustainable Consumption
Cross-Europeanexample projects
Training TA
Documenting TA
Debating TA
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Expert-based
Stakeholderinvolvement
Citizenconsultation
Learning andcreating capacity
Open access toresults & praxis
Mobilising actors
PACITA Events• April 2012• April 26-27th – First Practitioners Training in Lisbon
• June 2012• June 18th – Parliamentary Debate 1 (4.2) in Copenhagen• June 21-(12nd) – X EU TA Workshop (2.2) in Copenhagen• June 27-29th – First Summer School (3.2) in Liege
• November 2012• November 12th – Cross EU TA Workshop 2 (2.2) in Karlsruhe• November 13-14th – November CM7 in Karlsruhe• November 15-16th – Comparison Workshop (Expanding the TA Landscape)
• February 2013• February X – First European TA conference in Prague
• April 2013• April X (end) – Second Practitioners Training in Sofia
• September 2013• September 19-20th – Third Practitioners Training in Vilnius
PACITA Events (continued)• October 2013• October 17th – Policy Workshop (Public Health Genomics) in Vilnius
• January 2014• January 16th – Policy Hearing (Public Health Genomics) in Lisbon• January 29th – Ageing Society in Bern
• April 2014• April 8th – Second Parliamentary Debate in Lisbon• April 11th – Training Seminar Participatory Methods (Sust. Consumption)•• June 2014• June X – Second Summer School in Cork
• September 2014• September X – Fourth Practitioners Training in Prague
• October 2014• October X – Citizen Meetings (Sustainable Consumption) in WP7 countries
• February/March 2015• Second European TA conference in Berlin
Newest PACITA Info here:
www.pacitaproject.eu