ENGAGEgreen

The Erasmus+ project "Enhancing Institutional Capacities for Policy Engagement for Green and Digital Transitions" is funded by the European Commission and is being carried out by the Rhine-Main Universities together with five European partners.

The project, which will run from October 2023 to March 2026, will pilot and implement various dialogue and meeting formats, create good practice examples, a policy engagement toolkit and training materials for conducting face-to-face and virtual workshops. The activities are aimed at researchers at all career levels (R1-R4), students and representatives from politics, administration and practice.

About the Project

Upcoming Event: Science and Society: The case of French research policy

The University of Granada, through MediaLab UGR, in collaboration with the Erasmus Plus EngageGreen project, is pleased to announce the organisation of the seminar "Science and Society: the case of French research policy" presented by Florence Belaën.

Wednesday, 24 April 2024, from 9 to 11 AM, hybrid event:

In-person: at the V Centenario building of the University of Granada, in the Impronta Space of MediaLab UGR.
Virtual: https://meet.google.com/vrz-qush-yji through the platform yosigo.ugr.es.

Please register here, if you plan to attend.

The online broadcast will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube on the MediaLab UGR channels at the University of Granada.

The seminar will be presented by Florence Belaën, a prominent professional at the intersection of science, culture, and society, from Université Lumière Lyon 2. The session will focus on the connection between science and society, referencing the evolution of research policy in France, especially how these policies are promoting a more effective integration of science with the needs and expectations of society. This topic is particularly relevant at a time when trust in academic knowledge faces significant challenges and the need for a fruitful dialogue between science and society has never been more critical.

This seminar is an exceptional opportunity for academics, students, and professionals interested in the social impact of science and technology. For more information and registration, please visit the MediaLab UGR website.

Profile of Florence Belaën

After studying theoretical physics, Florence Belaën earned a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences in 2002, focusing on science museums and immersive exhibitions. She worked for ten years at the large Parisian museum, the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, as a mediation technical staff and later as a programming technical staff. From 2008 to 2013, she led the National Observatory of Scientific and Technical Heritage and Culture at the request of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Between 2014 and 2021, she held the position of Director of Culture, Science, and Society at the University of Lyon, implementing a policy of disseminating territorialized scientific culture through the Pop'sciences portal, a "science shop" that experiments with participatory research and maintains a platform on research ethics, scientific integrity, and social responsibility. Since 2021, as Director of Science and Society at the University Lumière Lyon 2, specializing in Humanities and Social Sciences, she oversees the Lyon Science Boutique, the institution's scientific mediation policy, the University of All Ages, the Mold Museum, the Incubator, and the department of continuing and alternate education. Throughout her training and professional career, Florence has always reconciled expertise, research, and programming with major projects on the themes of knowledge circulation, the relationship between science and society, cultural mediation, and museographic evolution.

News

10 April 2024

Training Session for Policymakers in Olomouc Region

On 10 April, a training session on data presentation and visualisation in ArcGIS Online was organised by the Department of Geoinformatics at Palacký University Olomouc. The training provided policymakers from the Olomouc Region and the Statutory City of Olomouc with a new set of skills in presenting open data by introducing new forms of visualisation. The participants (16 in total) also learned about effective alternatives for internal communication. The software used was ArcGIS Pro and Esri Storymaps. The research team at UP gained valuable insights, and the exchange of community knowledge during the training enhanced new perspectives in geoinformatics.

Picture: Palacky University Olomouc

16 February 2024

Call for Applications

NEW: TRANSNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP SCHEME

The Rhine-Main-Universities not only offer an ENGAGEgreen fellowship programme for policy professions interested in issues of green and digital transition, but are currently also developing a transnational fellowship scheme for policy professionals of EU Institutions and international organisations in cooperation with the University of Granada, Lumière University Lyon 2, and BETA Technological Centre (University of Vic/Central University of Catalonia).

This transnational scheme would enable policy professionals of the 2024/2025 fellowship cohort who are interested in issues of green and digital transitions to meet researchers in Granada, Lyon, Barcelona, or Vic in 2025.