Registration open: "Addressing Global Challenges Together: the Role of Science Diplomacy" - S4D4C final conference

This is the third meeting of the S4D4C project. The first one was held in Madrid in December 2018 and focused on a global perspective based on the re-conceptualization of science diplomacy as key to advance in national, regional and global challenges. This resulted in the publication of “The Madrid Declaration on Science Diplomacy” (see https://www.s4d4c.eu/s4d4c-1st-global-meeting/the-madrid-declaration-on-science-diplomacy/) already endorsed by over 150 experts. The second S4D4C networking meeting, held in Berlin in October 2019, reviewed the European perspective on science diplomacy, displaying our empirical findings from nine research case studies. As a result of both conferences, S4D4C published the policy report “Calling for a systemic change: towards a EU science diplomacy for addressing global challenges“ (see https://www.s4d4c.eu/calling-for-a-systemic-change-towards-a-eu-science-diplomacy-for-addressing-global-challenges/).

This final networking meeting will take place in the context of a pandemic which highlights the importance of the initial objectives of the Horizon 2020 project: (1) to enhance the research understanding of the practice of science diplomacy for addressing global challenges, (2) to provide policy recommendations to better approach science diplomacy, and (3) build and train a community of science diplomacy practitioners that could provide expertise to tackle global challenges.

The one-week event aims at advancing the establishment of a lively European and global science diplomacy community while providing its practitioners with additional tools, knowledge and policy recommendations. This final networking meeting will celebrate the end of the S4D4C project, but it will also provide the stage to discuss the legacy of S4D4C and additional outcomes stemming from this European and global discussion around science diplomacy.

More information about the event and its preliminary agenda is available from https://live.eventtia.com/en/s4d4c/Home/

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