February 2024

The Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) focuses its endeavors on delving deep into the dynamics of trust, public engagement, and the integration of societal values in scientific research in the biomedicine field. By examining two distinct yet interconnected domains -medical citizen science and vaccine research- the university aims to unearth insights that bridge the gap

IANUS partner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) announced the proposal for its case study, which focuses on the discourse surrounding nanotechnology. This case study aims to delve into the intricate dialogue that has evolved around nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, a field that emerged at the close of the last century, occupies a unique position in the scientific

For the IANUS project, the societal co-creation labs are an innovative initiative designed to delve into the complex interplay between science and society, specifically focusing on trust, communication, and perception dynamics. The core of this initiative is to explore a series of critical questions that have emerged at the intersection of scientific inquiry and societal

IANUS researcher Hendrik Berghäuser, from Fraunhofer ISI, created a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for assessing co-creation methods. They discovered that the concept of co-creation has hardly been problematized in academic literature or thoroughly defined in EU policies. This creates a tendency to regard co-creation as a tick-box exercise of, e.g., including stakeholders, thus neglecting

The issue of trust towards social media algorithms has certainly gained prominence in recent years, in accordance with the dominant presence of social media in our everyday lives. While past studies suggested that users were not highly aware of the algorithmic function (Eslami et al., 2015), participants in more recent studies are keenly conscious of