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 […]
IANUS methodology for policy briefs Read More »
The IANUS researchers have extensively worked to analyse and identify what kind of relationship trust is. Margit Sutrop, Külliki Korts, and Mari-Liisa Parder who have been responsible for the conceptual analysis of trust, presented at the Vilnius meeting in October 2023 a comprehensive map of different trust mechanisms in science, untangling the complex relationship between
Ethical aspects of trust in science Read More »
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,
IANUS studied “Reconnaissance” Read More »
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
Founder & Director of AcumenIST Dr. Steffi Friedrichs moderated a panel discussion at the 2023 EuroNanoForum, held from the 11th to the 13th of June in Sweden. The event is held every other year and provides a precious opportunity for representatives from academia, industry, and policy to discuss developments on nanotechnologies in an open forum.
AMI2023: Empowering Europe’s Green & Digital Future Read More »
The IANUS consortium recently made publicly available its crowdsourcing observatory! The observatory is publicly available here: https://crowdsourcing.trustinscience.eu/about/. The observatory is a platform for analyzing and visualizing data related to discussions on trust in science. It collects tweets from the social network Twitter, with the aim to raise awareness and inform the public on trends relevant
The IANUS crowdsourcing observatory is out! Read More »
IANUS partner, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and its Data and Web Science Laboratory (DataLab) collaborated with the incubator for Media Education and Development Laboratory (iMedD Lab) in order to create a platform that analyses political speeches in Greece during the pre-election period (March – June 2023). One of its most important goals has been to
IANUS project partners from UNIROMA1 presented their work at SISCC 2023. This is in one of Italy’s most prestigious conferences, organized by the Società Scientifica Italiana Sociologia, Cultura e Comunicazione (Italian Scientific Society of Sociology Communication and Culture) and held this year in beautiful Bari, in the southern part of the country. The SISCC conference
IANUS partner UNIROMA1 at SISCC 2023 Conference Read More »
George Gaskell’s home discipline is social psychology and in particular social representations, a theory of the collective common sense. The following illustrates the theory in action with an analysis of the introduction of transgenics in crops and foods, sometimes called GMOs, and the development of nanotechnology. Both transgenics and nanotechnology were described a base technologies
Transgenics and Nano particles: On the evolution of public opinion Read More »
Fraunhofer ISI recently conducted a large-scale survey among thousands of scientists in Europe as part of the SuperMoRRI project, which is funded by the EU Commission. The aim of the survey was to examine European researchers’ responsible research practices and their perception of, and attitudes towards, responsibility in research and innovation. The study was based
