PCST 2012 : Quality, Honesty and Beauty in Science Communication
Florence (Italy), 18-20 April 2012
Ecsite Annual Conference 2012: Space and Time, Unlimited
Cité de l'Espace - Toulouse (France), 31 May to 2 June 2012
ESOF 2012
Dublin (Ireland), 11 to 15 of July 2012
The event will bring together over 5,000 scientists, business leaders, government officials, policy-makers and international scientific media representatives to discuss the best of European science and to address all of the current major global scientific challenges, including Energy, Climate Change, Food and Health.
The Science in Society Conference 2012
University of California, Berkeley (USA), 17 to 19 November 2012
PCST 2014: Science communication for social inclusion and political engagement
Salvador (Brazil), 20-24 May, 2014
Science and technology have been increasingly embedded on society. Climate change, nuclear power, sustainable energies, research on embryonic stem cells, genetically modified crops, preserving biodiversity are few examples on how science has been part of the everyday life. Knowledge has played a major role in global economy and value creation depends increasingly on a better creation, diffusion and a better use of knowledge. Although that has been improvements on science and technology diffusion and expenditure, most of the world faces social exclusion and the disparity in development are still getting rich and poor countries further apart.
In this scenario, science communication is challenged by the need ofpolitical engagement for social inclusion. This includes an urgent need toward inclusion and engagement in different topics: low income people who have no access to education and to science goods; people who live in remote areas and have no access to science spaces and science goods; immigrants who have difficulties in understanding the language and the cultural context; disable people who have no science communication activities tailored to them, etc.
The PCST in Brazil aims at addressing this issue, evoking the debate on how to raise more inclusive strategies, both in developing and developed world, as well as to improve citizenship through public engagement in science and technology and build novel models and practices for communication and participation. An effort should be also made to integrate experiences and practices that consider the voice and views of locals, countryside, indigenous, and the people that are so often forgotten in the so commonly called "public".