Description du projet
Minimiser les lacunes en termes de connaissances entre les sciences et la société grâce à la science citoyenne
Notre civilisation a énormément tiré parti de la science fondamentale. Toutefois, les lacunes en termes de connaissances entre la recherche et la société semblent s’accroître, donnant naissance à de fausses idées sur le contenu, le contexte et la mission des sciences. Le projet REINFORCE, financé par l’UE, entend engager et soutenir plus de 100 000 citoyens pour accroître leur sensibilisation envers les sciences et leur attitude à son égard, éliminant les croyances anti‑intellectuelles de la société et fournissant aux citoyens les munitions intellectuelles requises pour devenir des consommateurs critiques de la connaissance scientifique. Cet objectif sera atteint grâce à quatre projets de science citoyenne menés dans le domaine de la physique de frontière, où les spécialistes en sciences participatives seront à même de prendre part au processus de découverte scientifique découlant sur la production de données de qualité élevée et le renforcement de la connaissance scientifique.
Objectif
Large Research Infrastructures in the field of frontier Physics have opened new observational windows to the universe and explore the structure of matter in extreme detail. These advancements require high levels of expertise and sophistication. On the other hand, society, lacking this level of expertise, merely observes these developments through outreach activities but does not actively contribute in the development of new scientific knowledge. This fact induces a gap between frontier science and society that can spawn misconceptions about the content, context and mission of public funded frontier science. The REINFORCE project comes to answer to the questions: a) Can citizens contribute in the development of new knowledge in frontier science? b) Can citizens apply this new knowledge to solve societal problems? c) How can we integrate citizen feedback? REINFORCE goes beyond outreach programmes and aims to minimize the gap between Society and Large Research Infrastructures in the field of Physics through the: i) development and implementation of 4 cutting-edge Citizen Science projects in the fields of Gravitational Waves, Neutrino Astronomy, Particle Physics and Cosmic Ray interplay with geoscience and archaeology with citizens: Citizens will analyze data and support the optimization of sensitive detectors in order to enhance their discovery potential. ii) implementation of a participatory design in citizen science: Communities of citizens will be developed, trained and empowered to contribute in the scientific mission of Large Research Infrastructures. iii) effective inclusion of sensitive citizen groups as well as the active interaction with secondary and tertiary education. iv) Aggregating best practices in a pan-European policy roadmap. REINFORCE aspires to engage more than 100,000 citizens across Europe and beyond, to help enhance society’s science literacy and awareness and to contribute in the production of scientific knowledge by citizens for society.
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Régime de financement
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
56021 Cascina
Italie