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Communication role on perception and beliefs of EU Citizens about Science

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Gaining a deeper insight into the public’s understanding of science

What is the European public opinion regarding vaccines? How widespread is the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)? Are consumers concerned about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their food supply? What are Europeans’ attitudes on climate change? The EU-funded CONCISE project will pose these questions to 500 citizens (representing the EU’s population of 500 million). It will conduct citizen consultations in Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia. Citizens' opinions will be recorded, transcribed and analysed with a corpus linguistic software. The findings will shed light on the role science communication plays in the origin of beliefs, perceptions and knowledge concerning social controversies on science issues.

Objective

CONCISE aims to generate a European-wide debate on science communication, involving a wide array of stakeholders, from media outlets to policy makers, from scientists to business companies, from science communicators to civil society organisations. CONCISE aims at providing qualitative knowledge through citizen consultation on the means/channels (media and social networks, life experience, relatives, religion, political ideology, educational system...) by which EU citizens acquire their science-related science knowledge, and how this knowledge influences their beliefs, opinions, and perceptions. For this purpose, CONCISE will explore the understanding of 500 citizens (representing the 500 million EU citizens), regarding four selected topics: vaccines, complementary and alternative medicine use (CAM), genetically modified organism (GMO), and climate change. CONCISE will carry out a citizen consultation in four countries: Lisbon (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Vicenza (Italy), Trnava (Slovakia) and Lodz (Poland), with the participation of 100 citizens in each country (selected volunteers and representatives of different social groups, considering gender, age, educational level, ethnic minorities, impaired people, and professional careers). Their understanding and position on these four scientific topics will be evaluated, validated, compared and analysed, in order to publish the results in open access by the CONSORTIUM team. Citizen opinions will be recorded; transcript and analysed with a corpus linguistics software in order to get different indicators that will help all stakeholders to have a more direct and fruitful communication, avoiding the danger of discourses that generatedistrust and misunderstandings. CONCISE results will be scalable and its methodology could be applied to other European countries in order to increase the communication of science in terms of quality and quantity all over Europe.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SwafS-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SwafS-2018-1

Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA
Net EU contribution
€ 187 972,50
Address
AVENIDA BLASCO IBANEZ 13
46010 Valencia
Spain

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Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 187 972,50

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