Project description
Novel public engagement approach for more efficient funding mechanisms
Each year the EU spends over EUR 100 billion on research and development. To ensure efficient use of these funds, in the last few decades funding mechanisms and policies have evolved substantially. However, the consequent intense budget scrutiny has put pressure on decision makers, researchers and the general public. This has resulted in category-specific issues and biases that prevent the creation of an optimal funding system. The EU-funded SIDE-COMMITTEE project intends to solve this problem by developing a novel public engagement approach inspired by participative democracy theory and practices. It will create an unbiased map of the agendas and needs of all three actor categories and use it to outline relevant policy recommendations. This will pave the way for more efficient funding procedures.
Objective
The EU-28’s yearly public Research and Development (R&D) expenditure amounts to more than EUR 100 billion, which must be used in an efficient, impact-driven yet fair way. Funding mechanisms and policies have thus considerably evolved in the last few decades, sometimes with adverse effects. The resulting intense budget scrutiny puts pressure on all categories of actors: at policy (decision makers); implementation (researchers); and receiver (general public) levels, generating category-specific issues and biases that hinder creating optimal funding mechanisms and policies. To provide a solution, this project develops an innovative public engagement approach inspired by participative democracy theory and practices. It will produce for the first time an unbiased mapping of the agendas and needs of all three actor categories and use it to delineate relevant policy recommendations. This ambitious objective will be achieved by focusing on the French system, taking advantage of the research-intensive area of Grenoble where the beneficiary is located. In practice, the Experienced Researcher (ER) will produce a review of the state of the art of public R&D funding mechanisms and policies in France, define the public engagement and debate technique to be used, before implementing it upon 3 separate groups --one for each actor category-- over a period of 1.5 years. This innovative, multi-disciplinary research process and its outcome will be valorised through academic and outreach communications as well as dialogue with relevant national and European stakeholders. This project, marking the return of the ER to a research career in Europe after years working abroad as a practitioner in international relations and research management, features a comprehensive suite of scientific and transversal skills training and knowledge transfer activities that will place the ER as an ideal catalyst for the creation of a local expertise cluster in science policy and the science of science.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- social sciences political sciences public administration
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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38058 GRENOBLE
France
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