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STOA

Scientific Technology Options Assessment

The Chairman

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Ms. Hanne Severinsen

Chair of the Committee on Science and Technology

Folketinget

Christiansborg

DK-1240 Copenhagen K

17.09.2007

Brussels,

Dear Ms Severinsen,

I have the honour and pleasure to inform you that the European Parliament's STOA

Panel, at its meeting on 6 September 2007, discussed the possible joint participation

of STOA, together with the other EPTA members, in the EuroScience Open Forum

(ESOF) 2008 to be held on 18-22 July 2008 in Barcelona.

The STOA Panel is in favour of a joint participation, in which STOA would have a

coordinating role. Attached you will find a detailed proposal for this participation

prepared after the matter was first discussed at the EPTA Directors' meeting in April

2007. The proposal describes the broad structure of EPTA participation. We have

agreed with the local organisers to submit the joint participation proposal by the end

of September 2007.

In order to proceed in this respect, I wish to request your opinion about the format of

the joint EPTA participation as presented in the proposal. This will be used for

drafting the final EPTA participation proposal.

In particular, I would like to ask you to indicate in which of the following types of

activities your institution would be prepared to participate:

• Scientific sessions

• Outreach activities

• Exhibition

• Social events

• Other

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On the basis of your responses, we can then decide on the level of involvement of

EPTA members in each type of activity. If you wish to contribute to the first two

types of activities, I additionally invite you to propose possible subjects for the

scientific sessions and/or outreach activities.

In summary, the basic elements of our proposal are:

• coordination by STOA;

• EPTA members commit themselves to certain types of activities and propose

subjects for scientific session/outreach activities; they then act to mobilise

resources in their respective parliaments and countries;

• STOA centralises and evaluates information concerning the activities;

• STOA involves national parliaments which are not members of EPTA, in the

context of a possible EU-funded project aimed at establishing TA in these

countries;

• EPTA members provide input and participants to scientific sessions and

outreach sessions;

• EPTA members prepare exhibition details;

• status of organisation to be discussed at the next EPTA Council meeting in

November 2007, as well as at the directors' meeting in April 2008.

I would appreciate if you could send your responses to the STOA Secretariat

(Mr. Miklos Gybrffi, Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy,

Directorate General for Internal Policies, European Parliament, Rue Wiertz 60,

ATR 00K076, B-1047 Brussels; e-mail: [email protected]), by

25 September 2007.

Yours sincerely,

Philippe Busquin MEP

Chairman of the STOA Panel

Annex: Proposal

Lars Kliiver

Director

The Danish Board of Technology

Antonigade 4,

DK-1106 København K,

Danmark

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Scientific Technology Options Assessment

The Chairman

Geda D (2007) 56989

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1 7.09.2007 Brussels,

Ms. Hanne Severinsen

Chair of the Committee on Science and Technology

Folketinget

Christiansborg

DK-1240 Copenhagen K

Dear Ms Severinsen,

I have the honour and pleasure to inform you that the European Parliament's STOA

Panel, at its meeting on 6 September 2007, discussed the possible joint participation

of STOA, together with the other EPTA members, in the EuroScience Open Forum

(ESOF) 2008 to be held on 18-22 July 2008 in Barcelona.

The STOA Panel is in favour of a joint participation, in which STOA would have a

coordinating role. Attached you will find a detailed proposal for this participation

prepared after the matter was first discussed at the EPTA Directors' meeting in April

2007. The proposal describes the broad structure of EPTA participation. We have

agreed with the local organisers to submit the joint participation proposal by the end

of September 2007.

In order to proceed in this respect, I wish to request your opinion about the format of

the joint EPTA participation as presented in the proposal. This will be used for

drafting the final EPTA participation proposal.

In particular, I would like to ask you to indicate in which of the following types of

activities your institution would be prepared to participate:

• Scientific sessions

• Outreach activities

• Exhibition

• Social events

• Other

RUE WIERTZ

B-1047 BRUXELLES • TEL.: +32/284-4645 • FAX: +32/284-44984

MAIL: PolDep-STOA(&,europarl.europa.eu

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On the basis of your responses, we can then decide on the level of involvement of

EPTA members in each type of activity. If you wish to contribute to the- first two

types of activities, I additionally invite you to propose possible subjects for the

scientific sessions and/or outreach activities.

In summary, the basic elements of our proposal are:

• coordination by STOA;

• EPTA members commit themselves to certain types of activities and propose

subjects for scientific session/outreach activities; they then act to mobilise

resources in their respective parliaments and countries;

• STOA centralises and evaluates information concerning the activities;

• STOA involves national parliaments which are not members of EPTA, in the

context of a possible EU-funded project aimed at establishing TA in these

countries;

• EPTA members provide input and participants to scientific sessions and

outreach sessions;

• EPTA members prepare exhibition details;

• status of organisation to be discussed at the next EPTA Council meeting in

November 2007, as well as at the directors' meeting in April 2008.

I would appreciate if you could send your responses to the STOA Secretariat

(Mr. Mikl0s Gy8rffi, Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy,

Directorate General for Internal Policies, European Parliament, Rue Wiertz 60,

ATR 00K076, B-1047 Brussels; e-mail: [email protected]), by

25 September 2007.

Yours sincerely,

Philippe Busquin MEP

Chairman of the STOA Panel

Annex: Proposal

Lars Kliiver

Director

The Danish Board of Technology

Antonigade 4,

DK-1106 København K,

Danmark

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Finn Skriver Frandsen

Fra:

Sendt:

Til:

Emne:

Hanne Severinsen

19. september 2007 14:35

Finn Skriver Frandsen

VS: ESOF 2008 - BARCELONA

Vedhæftede filer: severins.pdf; Annex pt 8. ESOF 2008 (update 17-09-2007).doc

Kære Finn

Dette brev fra Busquin er svært at decifrere for en ikke EU-vant

Hvad siger du ?

Hilsen Hanne

Fra: DE LANGE Danielle [mailto:[email protected]]

Sendt: 19. september 2007 12:23

Til: Hanne Severinsen

Cc: [email protected]

Emne: ESOF 2008 - BARCELONA

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached electronic copies of a letter mailed to you by regular mail.

Yours sincerely,

On behalf of

Philippe Busquin, MEP

Eurpopean Parliament

Policy Department - STOA

19-09-2007

UVT, Alm.del - 2006-07 - Bilag 257: Vedr. STOA

Side 1 af 1

Finn Skriver Frandsen

Fra:

Sendt:

Til:

Emne:

Hanne Severinsen

19. september 2007 14:35

Finn Skriver Frandsen

VS: ESOF 2008 - BARCELONA

Vedhæftede filer: severins.pdf; Annex pt 8. ESOF 2008 (update 17-09-2007).doc

Kære Finn

Dette brev fra Busquin er svært at decifrere for en ikke EU-vant

Hvad siger du ?

Hilsen Hanne

Fra: DE LANGE Danielle [mailto:[email protected]]

Sendt: 19. september 2007 12:23

Til: Hanne Severinsen

Cc: [email protected]

Emne: ESOF 2008 - BARCELONA

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached electronic copies of a letter mailed to you by regular mail.

Yours sincerely,

On behalf of

Philippe Busquin, MEP

Eurpopean Parliament

Policy Department - STOA

19-09-2007

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Scientific Technology Options Assessment

Brussels, 5 September 2007

— Memo for point 8 of the STOA Panel meeting

on 6 September 2007 -

STOA participation in the ESOF 2008 conference,

18-22 July 2008, Barcelona

Based on Proposal of participation of the EPTA network at ESOF2008, by:

Tore Tennoe, Michael Nentwich, Jordi Mas

Introduction

At the EPTA Directors' meeting in April it was decided that EPTA and its member

organisations should participate in ESOF 2008. There is currently no decision on the

EPTA participation format. The local organisers, the Fundaci6 Catalana per a la

Recerca i la Innovaci6 (FCRI), have suggested that STOA should take the lead in

organising the EPTA participation. Mr. Busquin, who is also a member of the

Governing Board of EuroScience (the main organizers of ESOF), supports this idea.

ESOF stands for EuroScience Open Forum.

ESOF2008 in Barcelona

After Stockholm (2004) and Munich (2006), ESOF 2008 will take place in Barcelona,

from Friday, 18, to Tuesday, 22 July 2008. The Steering Committee is co-chaired by

Enric Banda (director of FCRI and former Secretary General of the European Science

Foundation) and Ingrid Wunning (Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany). The

following 10 themes have been chosen by the Programme Committee chaired by Sir

Colin Berry, UK:

• The human mind and behaviour.

• The very big and the very small.

• Maintaining an open society through science.

• Engineering the body.

• What should we eat and what should we look like?

• Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming.

• Science policy.

• Science and art.

• Demography in an ageing Europe.

• Screening: burdens and benefits.

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EPTA's objectives in participating at ESOF 2008

EPTA has in recent years established joint projects and an extensive database with TA

projects. Thus it has a lot to offer, but needs to increase the awareness of its work.

ESOF is an important arena for the discussion of science, technology and politics in

Europe. Active participation will increase awareness of EPTA tasks and activities to

the European scientific community including journalists, researchers, policy-makers

etc. ESOF offers the opportunity to spread information both about EPTA in general

and about specific projects. ESOF has called for proposals in different formats. ETPA

could propose activities in each of the formats on offer at the conference:

• Scientific sessions

• Outreach activities

• Exhibition

• Social events

• Other

Scientific sessions

Structure: Either 1 1/4 hour (2-3 speakers at 20 minutes) or 2 1/2 hours, including one

short break (the option would be for the longer format in order to have more time for

discussion and active engagement/participation of people attending the session).

The proposal from EPTA could be: The "scientific session" should not have a

"standard format". It could have a workshop character, leading to a result and with

high interactivity level. Suggested topics:

Option a: "What is your favourite car?" Panel with politicians, NGOs, scientists and

car manufacturers moderated by an EPTA member with fact-sheet material plus an

energy theme. The point will be to address the more complex theme of the fuel

economy, transportation and climate change through a concrete discussion about

different upcoming technologies. This may be coupled to the topic of the EPTA

Conference 2008 with a view to using the fact sheet elaborated by EPTA members

(similar to the energy transition overview) for both occasions.

Option b: "How can politicians be up to date with science and technology?"

Discussing different models and how to proceed on the European level.

Option c: "The return of GM food?

European policy seminar based with the EPTA report as a point of departure.

Option d: "Searching for the open society"

The amazing development of ICTs in general and web 2.0. and search technology in

particular are challenging our views on the open society. EPTA would facilitate a

discussion about open source content, privacy, intellectual ownership etc.

There are many further topical TA themes that would fit one of the ten ESOF themes,

e.g.: brain science; energy and the environment etc. Furthermore, it might be a good

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strategy to send at least one EPTA representative to each of the other sessions that

deal with TA-related issues in order to speak up and participate actively (and hence

promote a more reflexive approach and, indirectly, EPTA).

Outreach activities

The best way of promoting participatory TA is, of course, by doing it. It is a

possibility to invite ESOF participants to join a discussion. The challenge at ESOF is

the limited amount of time available. There is also a need to have a clear aim for the

exercise. Organisation of a participatory activity such as Open Space or World Caf;

a hot topic is needed for this in order to attract many people. All the suggestions

mentioned above are possible topics.

Option a: "What is your favourite car ?"

Interview meeting/world caf. A mix of small roundtable discussions and a

questionnaire. Aim: to give input and questions for the "hot shots" in a policy panel.

Option b: "What should be the future topics for TA?" Might we use this event to

gather proposals for future TA studies? What do the journalists and scientists gathered

there think important to look at?

Pros: easy to market, interest of public, journalists.

Challenge: need of very good moderator, organizational tasks, need to choose a topic.

Exhibition

Setting-up a stand/booth in the exhibition area of ESOF 2008: showing

publications, web, brochures, posters etc.

Pros: high visibility, low cost.

Challenge: staff to be present at the stand, need of promotional material.

Social events

Organization of an EPTA reception targeted to a selected group of stakeholders.

Pros: marketing, increased awareness and recognition of EPTA mission.

Challenge: cost (and its distribution among EPTA members), organizational tasks.

Other

Option a: Press conference - presenting the final results of the current EPTA joint

project on genetically modified plants (will be available by beginning of 2008).

Pros: expected visibility, marketing.

Challenge: organizational tasks.

Option b: EPTA award to ESOF session, to poster, to EPTA publication etc.

Pros: visibility.

Challenge: organisational tasks, jury work, needs awarding subject and criteria.

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Organisational matters

Decisions to be taken:

• on the structure of EPTA participation (as above)

• on the subjects for the scientific session and/or outreach activities

• level of involvement of EPTA members

Proposal for working scenario:

• coordination is led by STOA

• EPTA members express opinions about subjects (scientific session/outreach

activities) and develop mobilising activity in their own parliament and country

• STOA centralises activities, involves national parliaments not members of

EPTA, with a view to a possible EU project of establishing TA in these

countries

• EPTA members provide input (participants) to scientific/outreach sessions

• EPTA members prepare exhibition details

• status of organisation to be discussed at the next EPTA Council meeting in

November 2007, as well as at the directors' meeting in April 2008.

Deadline for submission of STOA/EPTA proposal: 30 September 2007

Mild6s GYORFFI

STOA Administrator

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STOA

Scientific Technology Options Assessment

Brussels, 5 September 2007

— Memo for point 8 of the STOA Panel meeting

on 6 September 2007 -

STOA participation in the ESOF 2008 conference,

18-22 July 2008, Barcelona

Based on Proposal of participation of the EPTA network at ESOF2008, by:

Tore Tennoe, Michael Nentwich, Jordi Mas

Introduction

At the EPTA Directors' meeting in April it was decided that EPTA and its member

organisations should participate in ESOF 2008. There is currently no decision on the

EPTA participation format. The local organisers, the Fundaci6 Catalana per a la

Recerca i la Innovaci6 (FCRI), have suggested that STOA should take the lead in

organising the EPTA participation. Mr. Busquin, who is also a member of the

Governing Board of EuroScience (the main organizers of ESOF), supports this idea.

ESOF standsfor EuroScience Open Forum.

ESOF2008 in Barcelona

After Stockholm (2004) and Munich (2006), ESOF 2008 will take place in Barcelona,

from Friday, 18, to Tuesday, 22 July 2008. The Steering Committee is co-chaired by

Enric Banda (director of FCRI and former Secretary General of the European Science

Foundation) and Ingrid Wunning (Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany). The

following 10 themes have been chosen by the Programme Committee chaired by Sir

Colin Berry, UK:

• The human mind and behaviour.

• The very big and the very small.

• Maintaining an open society through science.

• Engineering the body.

• What should we eat and what should we look like?

• Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming.

• Science policy.

• Science and art.

• Demography in an ageing Europe.

• Screening: burdens and benefits.

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