Objective
This proposal has been formulated to address two of the tasks outlined in the Biotechnology Work Programme 1994-98: (a) "support will be given to a concerted action involving biotechnology, social sciences and communication sciences, analysing public perceptions in European countries and in a world-wide international context" and (b) "a concerted action based on national expertise will be supported in order to improve the next Eurobarometer (planned for 1996) and the evaluation of its resultsn.
As a major contribution to furthering our understanding of public opinion and its impact on the continued growth and development of biotechnology in Europe, we are coordinating a major research initiative (see (a) above). This initiative brings together independently funded national studies and an international comparative analysis of public discourse on biotechnology in policy making, media coverage and public perception. The initiative is supported by the European Federation of Biotechnology Task Group on Public Perceptions, and it involves collaborators member states of the European Union and two non-EU European countries (Poland and Switzerland). In addition, laboratories in Canada and the USA will be conducting parallel studies leading to comparisons between Europe and the broader international context. The concerted action comprises three workpackages: first, the design and development of the Eurobarometer survey; second, the statistical analysis of the Eurobarometer 1996 survey data; and third, the evaluation and interpretation of the Eurobarometer results in light of public discourse in the participating countries, as evidenced by the national studies of biotechnology policy and media discourse. A knowledge of how public policy, public debate and public attitudes are evolving in different European countries is a prerequisite for the drawing of practical policy implications from the data. The concerted action will lead to the following measurable deliverables: (1) A technical report on the design and development of the Eurobarometer biotechnology survey 1996; (2) A public report presenting the statistical analyses of the Eurobarometer 1996 data, including comparisons with 1991 and 1993; (3) A public report in which partner laboratories interpret the Eurobarometer data in the light of their analysis of media coverage and policy developments; (4) A public report analysing the significance of national trends in public perceptions of biotechnology for European policy deliberatons; (5) A public report comparing media coverage, policy developments and public perceptions in Europe and N. America, focusing on the implications for the competitive development of biotechnology in Europe.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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United Kingdom
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