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Gender integration in Horizon 2020

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 09:04

Gender is considered a main issue in Horizon 2020, the largest ever EU Research and Innovation programme, with €80 billion worth of funding available over seven years. The European Commission has identified seven priority areas of societal challenges, with the goal targeting investment in research in these fields. They are:

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
gender, gender issues, science and society, clinical trials, Horizon 2020, research

Third ASSET Summer School: a fact, lots of news

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 12:08

As reported in the ASSET Strategic plan, the three Summer Schools on Science in Society related issues in Pandemics (2015, 2016, 2017) pose the main challenge of the collaborative project overall that is dealing with the intersectoral approach required by the management of Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and pandemics.

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Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Summer School, Vaccine, science-in-society, science and society, Social media, Vaccine hesitancy, risk communication

Beyond the expert

Monday, May 29, 2017 - 11:45

Some things just do not want to die. In public health, anti-vaccination movements keep sizzling debates, just as they did in the XIX century. At the same time,  the “deficit model” of science communication – the myth that the “public” is just ignorant and that it would support science, if spoon-fed information from the ivory tower – still haunts the relationship between health, science and the community, despite having been repeatedly debunked. The two zombies are more related than one could believe. Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination movements grow in the cracks between trust and knowledge, and these are the fault lines that communication should heal – or rip apart, if it fails.

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Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Media, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, hesitant parents, communication, public health communication, science and society, science-in-society, Science communication

Fake news and hoaxes: are you looking for information or just confirmation?

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 15:20

In the wake of events such as Brexit, Trump’s election and the rumours about Russian hackers interfering with political events in USA and Europe, post-truth has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as the Word of the Year 2016.

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Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers
Topic: 
Media, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
disinformation, Social media, science and society, Science communication

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Action plan on Science in Society related issues in Epidemics and Total pandemics
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612236.

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