The PACITA project

”Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment”

FP7: Mutual Learning and Mobilisation Action

April 2011 – March 2015

Budget: ~ 5 Mio. €

Overall aims

• Increase European PTA capacity• Enhance the institutional foundation for

knowledge-based policy-making• Build on diversity of practices in PTA• Key practices in focus are ”interactive”

– Engaging experts, stakeholders, citizens, politicians directly in the work

• Develop and test modes for trans-national and European interactive TA

History – the start• FP7 Science-in-Society program expected to

launch call on ”Mobilisation and mutual learning action plan”, spring 2009

• EPTA Director meeting 2009 decided to bid– EPTA members as partners or in an associated

network– Expanding PTA in Europe as a core aim countries

without PTA as important partners– Reach-out beyond the partnership important

History – the proposal• Brainstorm with EPTA members summer 2009 –

incl. indicating participation/status• Core group – DBT, TAB/ITAS, Rathenau, ITA,

NBT• Partnership beyond EPTA made through

networks

The Partners• Danish Board of Technology (Denmark)

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)

• The Rathenau Institute (Netherlands)

• Norwegian Board of Technology (Norway)

• The Institute of Technology Assessment (Austria)

• Applied Research and Communications Fund (Bulgaria)

• Institute of Technology of Biology and Chemistry (Portugal)

• Institute Society and Technology (Flanders, Belgium)

• Catalan Institution Foundation for Research Support (Catalonia, Spain)

• Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment (Switzerland)

• Knowledge Economy Forum (Lithuania)

• Technology Centre ASCR (Czech Republic)

• University of Liège, SPIRAL Research Centre (Wallonia, Belgium)

• University College Cork (Ireland)

• Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary).

The PACITA action planCross-Europeanexample projects

Training TA

Documenting TA

Debating TA

Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,

- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,

- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research

Expert-based

Stakeholderinvolvement

Citizenconsultation

Learning andcreating capacity

Open access toresults & praxis

Mobilising actors

Documenting TA

• Existing praxis in PTA institutions described by partner pairs (PTA+non-PTA partner)

• Potential work modes for cross-European PTA developed/described

• TA BookCross-Europeanexample projects

Training TA

Documenting TA

Debating TA

Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,

- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,

- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research

Expert-based

Stakeholderinvolvement

Citizenconsultation

Learning andcreating capacity

Open access toresults & praxis

Mobilising actors

Training TA

• 2 Summer Schools for users and actors

• 4 Practitioners’ Meetings - thematic– Scoping and framing– Methodology– Networking and impact creation– Communication

• TA Portal– TA web-mining– Training materials– Web 2.0 facilities

Cross-Europeanexample projects

Training TA

Documenting TA

Debating TA

Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,

- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,

- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research

Expert-based

Stakeholderinvolvement

Citizenconsultation

Learning andcreating capacity

Open access toresults & praxis

Mobilising actors

Cross-Europeanexample projects

Training TA

Documenting TA

Debating TA

Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,

- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,

- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research

Expert-based

Stakeholderinvolvement

Citizenconsultation

Learning andcreating capacity

Open access toresults & praxis

Mobilising actors

• Expanding the TA landscape– Non-PTA countries analysis– Debates in the non-PTA countries (partner

pairs)

• 2 Parliamentary Debates– EU 27 and beyond - Relevant committees– 1: Documenting TA– 2: Expanding landscape

• 2 European TA Conferences• 8 issues of TA

Newsletter/magazine

Debating TA

3 cross-European example projects• European coordinated and synthesized,

based upon subactivities at national/regional level

• Expert based: Public Health Genomics• Stakeholder involvement:

Ageing Society Telecare• Citizen consultation:

Sustainable Consumption

Cross-Europeanexample projects

Training TA

Documenting TA

Debating TA

Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on- Public engagement in research,

- Ethics in science,- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,

- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research

Expert-based

Stakeholderinvolvement

Citizenconsultation

Learning andcreating capacity

Open access toresults & praxis

Mobilising actors

PACITA Events• April 2012• April 26-27th – First Practitioners Training in Lisbon

• June 2012• June 18th – Parliamentary Debate 1 (4.2) in Copenhagen• June 21-(12nd) – X EU TA Workshop (2.2) in Copenhagen• June 27-29th – First Summer School (3.2) in Liege

• November 2012• November 12th – Cross EU TA Workshop 2 (2.2) in Karlsruhe• November 13-14th – November CM7 in Karlsruhe• November 15-16th – Comparison Workshop (Expanding the TA Landscape)

• February 2013• February X – First European TA conference in Prague

• April 2013• April X (end) – Second Practitioners Training in Sofia

• September 2013• September 19-20th – Third Practitioners Training in Vilnius

PACITA Events (continued)• October 2013• October 17th – Policy Workshop (Public Health Genomics) in Vilnius

• January 2014• January 16th – Policy Hearing (Public Health Genomics) in Lisbon• January 29th – Ageing Society in Bern

• April 2014• April 8th – Second Parliamentary Debate in Lisbon• April 11th – Training Seminar Participatory Methods (Sust. Consumption)•• June 2014• June X – Second Summer School in Cork

• September 2014• September X – Fourth Practitioners Training in Prague

• October 2014• October X – Citizen Meetings (Sustainable Consumption) in WP7 countries

• February/March 2015• Second European TA conference in Berlin

Newest PACITA Info here:

www.pacitaproject.eu