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State of play EU Defence Fund: EP plenary vote on Wednesday 12

Démocratisation de la science, Democratisation of science / Par / / , , / 2 minutes de lecture

Sciences Citoyennes est co-signataire de cette lettre ouverte aux parlementaires européens Dear Member of the European Parliament, on Wednesday 12 December, you will make a decisive vote on the proposal for a European Defence Fund to dedicate €13 billion for research and development projects in military technologies during the next multi-financial framework. 44 non-profit organisations across Europe

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Citizen Conventions are needed to define European research.

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Europe’s next budget for research-funding could reach €120-billion for the coming seven years. The European Parliament will vote in 2019 on its allocation in the next Research Framework Programme (FP9). Once again, most of that money will be granted to multinational companies, unless… Sciences Citoyennes and Global Health Advocates, supported by a coalition of European

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Scientists and Civil Society Must Move Together toward a New Science

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Article proposed and written by an advisory board member of Sciences Citoyennes, Christian Vélot1,2,3,4* , about democracy in science and public engagement, illustrated by a concrete example of participatory research. This is an open-access article, originally published here : http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00096/full.

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Conflicts of interest at the European Food Safety Authority : Enough is enough!

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Civil society groups ask the European Parliament’s Budget control committee to postpone EFSA’s budget discharge, as long as it fails to enact a serious independence policy on regulated commercial interests. Our demand is also to provide an additional budget for EFSA to pay independent experts and develop in-house research. 

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A Manifesto For a Responsible Scientific Research

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As a result of a collective work, here is our Manifesto for a Responsible Scientific Research. Fondation Sciences Citoyennes purpose is to encourage debates concerning the scientific research aims and the means to implement individual and collective accountability in this field.

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The \ »clear and united voice of experts\ », commentaires sur un nouveau comité d\’experts européens

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Le 10 novembre 2015 dernier, la Commission Européenne a annoncé la composition d\’un nouveau groupe d\’experts scientifiques de haut niveau (HLG pour High Level Group), qui s\’intégrera dans un ensemble (SAM pour Scientific Advice System). Ceci vise à remplacer l\’ancien poste d\’Anne Glover (Chief of scientific Adviser, CSA), non renouvelé suite, entre autres, à l\’interpellation

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Sciences Citoyennes – a short presentation

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Sciences Citoyennes – Citizen Sciences – is a non for profit organisation, which was created in 2002 by a group of researchers from various fields of humanities and natural sciences, by students and citizens. Our background and our objectives Our main issue is to critically question the role of science and technology in the construction of

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Redesign progress now! The use of knowledge for a re-conceptualised human progress

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This articles was written by Claudia Neubauer (FSC) and Matthieu Calame (FPH) in 2013. It was published in the 5th GUNi Report Higher Education in the World: Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Contributing to Social Change, which has been published in February 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan. GUNI2013_Redesign progress_CN_MAC

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The Citizens Convention – A new Democratic Procedure for Decision-Making on Research and Innovation Issues

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What is a Citizens Convention? The Citizens Convention is a participatory procedure aiming at informing people about political decision processes on research and innovation issues. It combines three phases: a prior training (during which a drawn by lot group of 15 citizens are studying), an active intervention (during which these citizens are questioning) and a

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