CORDIS · ISEED
Inclusive Science and European Democracies
- Code
ISEED- Programme
- H2020
- Call
GOVERNANCE-21-2020- Status
- CLOSED
- Period
- 2021-02-01 – 2024-07-31
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Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA | coordinator | IT | 564 339 € |
| UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO | participant | IT | 322 211 € |
| NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU | participant | NO | 309 056 € |
| FONDEN DEMOCRACY X | participant | DK | 287 375 € |
| MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE | participant | FR | 270 525 € |
| UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA | participant | ES | 241 188 € |
| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN | participant | IE | 184 250 € |
| UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI | participant | PL | 177 750 € |
| INSTYTUT ROZWOJU MIAST I REGIONOW | participant | PL | 113 875 € |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER | participant | UK | 95 000 € |
| APPLIED RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS FUND | participant | BG | 84 562 € |
| MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION Y CULTURA | participant | UY | 73 156 € |
Description
The objective of ISEED is to identify, through an analysis of a variety of types of, and experiments in, public engagement on science-related questions and activities, generalizable characteristics and conditions that cultivate active and productive citizen participation in public deliberation. The aim is to construct a novel concept of ‘deliberative participation’ designed to enhance both the quality and the legitimacy of political decision-making, by focusing on the importance of knowledge-based deliberation. ISEED will build on and extend existing experience in the field of citizen science to explore the conditions under which participative and deliberative practices can be successfully implemented for the purpose of building forms of knowledge-based democratic governance complementary to political representation in democratic societies. ISEED combines theoretical analysis, empirical research, and small-scale experiments. It will reassess the role of the public sphere to include a novel notion of deliberative participation in a plurality of publics and counter publics. It will empirically explore how current practices of citizen participation in science can offer innovative methods to confront and overcome a number of current obstacles faced by democratic participation and decision making. It will develop a new tool to describe styles of argumentation in traditional and digital media and analyze the role of emotion and reason in polarised debates on contemporary scientific issues. The ISEED consortium, committed to multi and inter-disciplinary research, aims to deliver scalable results to foster deliberative democratic processes in Europe and other knowledge societies.
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