Objective
The Science in Society Forum held in Brussels last March underlined the need for a greater institutional commitment across Europe in raising the profile of science as an integral part of our culture. Despite the advances made since the launch of the Commissions Science and Society Action Plan, little has been done so far to erode the borders between the two cultures and promoting scientific culture is not usually an issue of our cultural agendas.
Besides, most actions are implemented at a national level while the municipality is the closer administration to citizens and, probably, the most flexible in incorporating new public engagement tools. This proposal addresses the above two key issues. ESCITY focuses on creating the core for a community that brings together regional and local governments and social researchers across Europe to exchange information and best practices with the emphasis on strategies that place the promotion of scientific culture within the cities and regions cultural policies. The project aims to settle the basis for a wider and lasting network, able to act as a lobby. ESCITY has four Areas:
1. To provide a broad forum for scientific culture issues across Europe.
2. Benchmarking the promotion of scientific culture at regional and local level.
3. To organise a European Conference to be held in Barcelona in 2007, which the city has declared Science Year. Prior, contacts will be made with other European networks of cities in order to gather experiences, concerns and suggestions relevant to ESCITY and identify potential participants and network members.
4. To engage in a lobby strategy by publishing an action guide to be distributed to European governments, its contents being the forum conclusions, a list of best practices.
Call for proposal
FP6-2005-SCIENCE-AND-SOCIETY-13
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
SSA - Specific Support ActionCoordinator
BARCELONA
Spain