The PACITA project
”Parliaments and Civil Society in
Technology Assessment”
FP7: Mutual Learning and Mobilisation Action
April 2011 – March 2015
Budget: ~ 5 Mio. €
Overall aims
• Increase European PTA capacity
• Enhance the institutional foundation for
knowledge-based policy-making
• Build on diversity of practices in PTA
• Key practices in focus are ”interactive”
– Engaging experts, stakeholders, citizens,
politicians directly in the work
• Develop and test modes for trans-national
and European interactive TA
History – the start
• FP7 Science-in-Society program expected to
launch call on ”Mobilisation and mutual learning
action plan”, spring 2009
• EPTA Director meeting 2009 decided to bid
– EPTA members as partners or in an associated
network
– Expanding PTA in Europe as a core aim  countries
without PTA as important partners
– Reach-out beyond the partnership important
History – the proposal
• Brainstorm with EPTA members summer 2009 –
incl. indicating participation/status
• Core group – DBT, TAB/ITAS, Rathenau, ITA,
NBT
• Partnership beyond EPTA made through
networks
The Partners
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Danish Board of Technology (Denmark)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
The Rathenau Institute (Netherlands)
Norwegian Board of Technology (Norway)
The Institute of Technology Assessment (Austria)
Applied Research and Communications Fund (Bulgaria)
Institute of Technology of Biology and Chemistry (Portugal)
Institute Society and Technology (Flanders, Belgium)
Catalan Institution Foundation for Research Support (Catalonia, Spain)
Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment (Switzerland)
Knowledge Economy Forum (Lithuania)
Technology Centre ASCR (Czech Republic)
University of Liège, SPIRAL Research Centre (Wallonia, Belgium)
University College Cork (Ireland)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary).
The PACITA action plan
Training TA
Learning and
creating capacity
Cross-European
example projects
Documenting TA
Open access to
results & praxis
Expert-based
Debating TA
Mobilising actors
Stakeholder
involvement
Citizen
consultation
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on
- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,
- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Documenting TA
• Existing praxis in PTA institutions
described by partner pairs (PTA+non-PTA
partner)
• Potential work modes for cross-European
PTA developed/described
• TA Book
Training TA
Learning and
creating capacity
Cross-European
example projects
Documenting TA
Open access to
results & praxis
Expert-based
Debating TA
Mobilising actors
Stakeholder
involvement
Citizen
consultation
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on
- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,
- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Training TA
• 2 Summer Schools for users and actors
• 4 Practitioners’ Meetings - thematic
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Scoping and framing
Methodology
Networking and impact creation
Communication
• TA Portal
– TA web-mining
– Training materials
– Web 2.0 facilities
Training TA
Learning and
creating capacity
Cross-European
example projects
Documenting TA
Open access to
results & praxis
Expert-based
Debating TA
Mobilising actors
Stakeholder
involvement
Citizen
consultation
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on
- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,
- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
Debating TA
• Expanding the TA landscape
– Non-PTA countries analysis
– Debates in the non-PTA countries (partner
pairs)
• 2 Parliamentary Debates
– EU 27 and beyond - Relevant committees
– 1: Documenting TA
– 2: Expanding landscape
• 2 European TA Conferences
• 8 issues of TA
Newsletter/magazine
Training TA
Learning and
creating capacity
Cross-European
example projects
Documenting TA
Open access to
results & praxis
Expert-based
Debating TA
Mobilising actors
Stakeholder
involvement
Citizen
consultation
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on
- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,
- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
3 cross-European
example projects
• European coordinated and synthesized,
based upon subactivities at
national/regional level
• Expert based: Public Health Genomics
• Stakeholder involvement:
Ageing Society Telecare
• Citizen consultation:
Sustainable Consumption
Training TA
Learning and
creating capacity
Cross-European
example projects
Documenting TA
Open access to
results & praxis
Expert-based
Debating TA
Mobilising actors
Stakeholder
involvement
Citizen
consultation
Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on
- Public engagement in research,
- Ethics in science,
- Two-way communication between scientists and other stakeholders,
- Policy-making based on and/or using science and research
PACITA Events
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April 2012
April 26-27th – First Practitioners Training in Lisbon
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June 2012
June 18th – Parliamentary Debate 1 (4.2) in Copenhagen
June 21-(12nd) – X EU TA Workshop (2.2) in Copenhagen
June 27-29th – First Summer School (3.2) in Liege
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November 2012
November 12th – Cross EU TA Workshop 2 (2.2) in Karlsruhe
November 13-14th – November CM7 in Karlsruhe
November 15-16th – Comparison Workshop (Expanding the TA Landscape)
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February 2013
February X – First European TA conference in Prague
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April 2013
April X (end) – Second Practitioners Training in Sofia
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September 2013
September 19-20th – Third Practitioners Training in Vilnius
PACITA Events (continued)
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October 2013
October 17th – Policy Workshop (Public Health Genomics) in Vilnius
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January 2014
January 16th – Policy Hearing (Public Health Genomics) in Lisbon
January 29th – Ageing Society in Bern
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April 2014
April 8th – Second Parliamentary Debate in Lisbon
April 11th – Training Seminar Participatory Methods (Sust. Consumption)
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September 2014
September X – Fourth Practitioners Training in Prague
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October 2014
October X – Citizen Meetings (Sustainable Consumption) in WP7 countries
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February/March 2015
Second European TA conference in Berlin
June 2014
June X – Second Summer School in Cork
Newest PACITA Info here:
www.pacitaproject.eu