During its first year, the IANUS partners organised three stakeholder workshops with a diverse group of prominent societal experts from various disciplines. The aim has been to map the landscape of trust in science and its underlying forces and attractors, as well as to receive input towards the project’s activities. The consultation workshops took the […]
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The IANUS project aimed to explore public opinion within the science and technology ecosystem and thus led to the Wellcome Global Monitor, which stands out for its valuable approach. It gauges trust and mistrust by posing specific questions and analysing responses from citizens. Thus, the IANUS team analysed the Wellcome Global Monitor 2018 data, which
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The IANUS project focuses exclusively on trust in science and thus needs to develop a concept of governance of trustworthiness in science. In view of the complexity and multi-layered nature of the concept of trust in science, the various starting points regarding the governance of science shall be clarified with the help of a simple
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Policy recommendations are a central outcome of the IANUS project. Within the project consortium, Fraunhofer ISI is responsible for turning key project insights into policy recommendations explicitly addressed to governance actors of the science system. The process for developing policy recommendations has been developed and published in a public deliverable this year. The used approach
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The IANUS researchers have extensively worked to analyse and identify what kind of relationship trust is. Many philosophers seem to lean towards the doxastic view of trust based on the belief that trust functions as a three-place relationship (A trusts B to C; A trusts B to be C). Yet, there’s substantial reasoning to consider
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IANUS partners’ research on “Reconnaissance” is part of WP2, the first substantial work package in the IANUS project, which is predicated on the maxim “those who ignore history are condemned to relive the past”. The objective was to explore and map existing research and propositions on the drivers of trust and distrust in science, technology,
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Our partner Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Data and Web Science Lab participated in the iMEdD International Journalism Forum that was hosted by iMEdD – Incubator for Media Education and Development during 28-30 September in Athens, Greece. Among others, the forum placed an emphasis on transparent and independent journalism, as well as on the prominent
