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This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment. The starting point for this book is the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge in which practices claiming to be based on principles of dialogue and participation have spread across diverse social fields. As in other fields of social practice in the dialogic turn, the model of communication underpinning science and environmental governance is dialogue in which scientists and citizens engage in mutual learning on the basis of the different knowledge forms that they bring with them. The official aim is to involve citizens in processes of decision-making on scientific and environmental issues, including issues relating to the built environment such as urban planning. The attempt in this book has been made to build bridges across the fields of science and technology studies, environmental studies, and media and communication studies in order to provide theoretically informed and empiri ally rich accounts of how citizen voices are articulated, invoked, heard, marginalised or silenced in science and environment communication

"ECREA series, ISSN 1742-9420" ; The starting point for this book is the dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge in which practices claiming to be based on principles of dialogue and participation have spread across diverse social fields (Aubert and Soler 2006; Gόmez, Puigvert and Flecha 2011; Phillips 2011). One such field is planned communication and campaigns. Here we find that authorities increasingly supplement or replace information campaigns aiming to transmit or diffuse expert knowledge to recipient target-groups with communication initiatives in which experts and target-groups are reconfi gured as participants in sites of dialogue where knowledge is co-produced through mutual learning. Another field is organisational development in which employees are encouraged to participate as agents of change through the collaborative production of knowledge in processes of dialogue, rather than being positioned at the receiving end of organisational changes dictated by management. ; COMPETE: ...

This deliverable corresponds to results obtained from Task T2.3 on Effectiveness and perception of science communication in EU citizen science projects. The development of this task consisted of carrying out an initial assessment of the communication channels and strategies used in citizen science (CS) projects, as well as the quality and effectiveness of science communication. In addition, the main barriers and challenges for quadruple helix stakeholders were also co-identified through co-creative methodologies. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 873125 ; WP2: Analysis of Citizen Science as a Science Communication Tool. D2.3: Effectiveness of science communication in EU citizen science projects

The demand for sound scientific information and public participation is particularly great in urban forestry. Urban society's manifold perceptions, preferences and demands for urban forest goods and services need to be considered, indicating the necessity for socially inclusive planning processes. Successful policies can only be formulated by establishing close links with, for example, urban planning and municipal policies. Inherently, this means that close ties between research and policy are required. This article discusses the outcomes of the NeighbourWoods research and development project in which a wide range of tools for public participation were tested in six urban woodland casestudies across Europe. A distinction was made between characteristics of the specific participatory tools and those of the communication process between the facilitators (scientists) of the participation process and the end-users of information (local policy-makers). Public willingness to participate depends on factors such as existing controversy, emotions attached to the forest, and perceived dangers, e.g., in terms of threats to the status quo. Policy makers' willingness to involve themselves depends on political interests, on prior experience with public participation processes, and on their trust in the facilitators of the public participation process. Findings confirm that a set of tools comprising a step-wise process from informing the public in an attractive way, collecting information on public opinion, towards fully participatory approaches such as direct involvement in decision-making is most likely to ensure socially inclusive planning. Communication with policy-makers requires a high degree of openness, clearly explaining every phase of the process, being open about each other's expectations, in short, by developing relationships based on mutual trust.

Science communication aims at the successful sharing and explanation of sciencerelated topics to a wider audience. In order to enhance communication between science and society, a better understanding of citizens' habits and perceptions is needed. Therefore, it is vital to understand how citizens acquire knowledge about science- related issues, how this knowledge affects their beliefs, opinions and perceptions, and what sources of information they choose to learn about science – and how they assess their reliability. This book addresses these questions, based on the analyses of public consultations data from Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain, concerned with the science communication of issues including climate change, vaccines, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Sharing experiences of how to engage citizens in public consultation, it provides insights into the mobilisation of interest in science and offers recommendations on how to improve science communication.

Assessing impact is a growingly urgent need for scientific research. Within the newly established Horizon Europe program, citizen active participation, engagement and co-creation will become pivotal and thus proper impact assessment needs to be addressed. In this setting, Citizen Science (CS) arises as a fundamental tool for widening participation and contributing to reach social, economical, scientific and political impacts. However, dierent challenges have been described for CS impact assessment tools that impede a proper evaluation of communication actions. NEWSERA project tries to address current limitations from a dierent angle, by interpreting CS as part of the communication process. NEWSERA will thus analyse and evaluate the complex and multidirectional science communication strategies, including digital and non-digital ones, addressed to quadruple helix stakeholders in citizen science projects across Europe as the new paradigm for science communication (#CitSciComm). Our hypothesis relies on improving the science communication of citizen science projects, by co-designing ad hoc #CitSciComm tools and strategies with engaged stakeholders, during our "Citizen Science Communication Labs" (#CitSciComm Labs), while validating the concepts of Citizen Science Communication and Citizen Science Journalism. Reaching broader target audiences will allow at the same time to increase the expected outcomes and impacts of the CS projects themselves, while providing a greater compliance of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) pillars, i.e. science education, ethics, open access, gender, public participation and governance. This deliverable thus aims at setting up a multi-level impact assessment framework, as the NEWSERA method, considering the impact assessment under three packages: Science Communication Actions ("NEWSERA Impact Assessment Package"), the assessment of CS on dierent dimensions ("ACTION Impact Assessment Package"), and the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) pillars ("RRI Impact Assessment ...

Assessing impact is a growingly urgent need for scientific research. Within the newly established Horizon Europe program, citizen active participation, engagement and co-creation will become pivotal and thus proper impact assessment needs to be addressed. In this setting, Citizen Science (CS) arises as a fundamental tool for widening participation and contributing to reach social, economical, scientific and political impacts. However, dierent challenges have been described for CS impact assessment tools that impede a proper evaluation of communication actions. NEWSERA project tries to address current limitations from a dierent angle, by interpreting CS as part of the communication process. NEWSERA will thus analyse and evaluate the complex and multidirectional science communication strategies, including digital and non-digital ones, addressed to quadruple helix stakeholders in citizen science projects across Europe as the new paradigm for science communication (#CitSciComm). Our hypothesis relies on improving the science communication of citizen science projects, by co-designing ad hoc #CitSciComm tools and strategies with engaged stakeholders, during our "Citizen Science Communication Labs" (#CitSciComm Labs), while validating the concepts of Citizen Science Communication and Citizen Science Journalism. Reaching broader target audiences will allow at the same time to increase the expected outcomes and impacts of the CS projects themselves, while providing a greater compliance of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) pillars, i.e. science education, ethics, open access, gender, public participation and governance. This deliverable thus aims at setting up a multi-level impact assessment framework, as the NEWSERA method, considering the impact assessment under three packages: Science Communication Actions ("NEWSERA Impact Assessment Package"), the assessment of CS on dierent dimensions ("ACTION Impact Assessment Package"), and the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) pillars ("RRI Impact Assessment ...

AbstractThe articles in this department have been written by Athena Bradley,staff writer for Citizen Participation,a publication of Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and public Affairs.