ACADEMIC YEAR 15-16
FOCUS
Policy
UNIVERSITY
MAASTRICHT
SPECIFIC FOCUS
Scientification of society and
socialization of society
KLAGENFURT
Innovation, risk management,
intellectual property, energy,
climate change; global challenges
AALBORG
ATHENS
LISBON
NAMUR
Controversies
STRASBOURG
OSLO
LISBON
MAASTRICHT
KLAGENFURT
ATHENS
ICT
COPENHAGEN
KLAGENFURT
NAMUR
Especially in connection to energy
policy; patent policy
Governance and Water policy;
National and European policy;
knowledge and science in water
policy
Eu – data protection – ethics
regulation - controversies
Related to risk
Related to environment
On water governance and water
uses, e.g. new hydroelectric
infrastructures or taxes for water
health, nano, development, water,
environment related to policy
Specialization: economic
indicators, health, nano,
development, water,
environment related to policy
Biotech/life sciences, energy and
climate change
Specialization in controversies
and tradeoffs involved in the
design of artifacts; competing
technical orientations;
controversies regarding the
enabling-disabling dimensions of
technological change
Simulation, Web 2.0, Online-Video
In relation to ICT - emerging
technologies – responsible
innovation – border control –
ethics and governance – ethics
Innovation
ATHENS
MADRID
KLAGENFURT
and governance – ethics and
rationality – surveillance society –
ethics and research
History of ICT
New and emerging fields of S&T,
transformation of infrastructures
OSLO
AALBORG
Ethics
NAMUR
MAASTRICHT
LOUVAIN
KLAGENFURT
participation
LISBON
In relation to ICT - emerging
technologies – responsible
innovation – border control –
ethics and governance – ethics
and governance – ethics and
rationality – surveillance society –
ethics and research
New emerging science and
technology (NEST)
Ecological crisis
Biotech/life sciences, climate
change
Participation policies in water
sector; participation practices and
tools; public involvement
EMPERICAL DOMAIN
UNIVERSITY
Specific focus
Water management
LISBON
Participation policies in water
sector; participation practices and
tools; public involvement
Water management and tourism;
islands and water management
ATHENS
MAASTRICHT
Climate change
LISBON
ATHENS
Sustainability
OSLO
KLAGENFURT
MAASTRICHT
AALBORG
ATHENS
KLAGENFURT
Ecology, climatology,
neuroscience
LOUVAIN
Nanotechnology
MAASTRICHT
ATHENS
Neuroscience
Health Care
Disability
Biotechnology
LOUVAIN
MAASTRICHT
ATHENS
MAASTRICHT
National and European policies
namely linked to water; adaptation
and public participation
Especially in connection to energy
policy; north-south comparisons;
transnational technological
infrastructures and climate change
Climate policy, climate engineering
Emission trading
Including an emphasis on northsouth comparisons
Global challenges, societal
transformation, participatory
technology design
Public image of nanotechnology;
nanotechnology and disability
governance of primary health care
Theory and case studies
regulation of GMOs
THEORIES & METHODS
UNIVERSITY
Actor Network Theory
COPENHAGEN
OSLO
MAASTRICHT
LISBON
SCOT
MAASTRICHT
KLAGENFURT
Innovation theory
MADRID
AALBORG
OSLO
KLAGENFURT
MAASTRICHT
ATHENS
Political theory
Philosophical theory
Ethnography
KLAGENFURT
STRASBOURG
MAASTRICHT
ATHENS
LOUVAIN
ATHENS
NAMUR
COPENHAGEN
Specific focus
Hybrid management
Sociotechnical configurations and
networks; symmetric analysis;
translation and inscriptions.
Innovation journeys of policy
instruments
Especially in connection to patent
management; history of innovation
policies; conceptual history of
innovation
STS and conflict theories (e.g. on
class, gender, race issues); STS and
borders-migration issues
Philosophy and History of Science
Procedural theories – epistemology
of ethics
LISBON
Discourse analysis
KLAGENFURT
MAASTRICHT
ATHENS
KLAGENFURT
Following the actors as
ethnography through ANT
perspetive; Situated
ethnography;Political ethnography.
Use of observation, shadowing,
focus groups, documental analysis,
space uses
Science and Public Policy
(analyzing science-policy
discourse)
Public image of (public rhetoric
about) science and technology;
symptomatic analysis of
engineering/technical texts
FACILITIES
UNIVERSITY
Students participate in
specialization course
organized by ESST
program
OSLO
MAASTRICHT
KLAGENFURT
STRASBOURG
Students join existing
courses of other
programmes related to
specialization
AALBORG
MADRID
COPENHAGEN
Students receive
‘private’ tutorial
meetings in small group
(e.g. 3 students)
Students participate in
specialization course
organized by ESST
program
LISBON
LOUVAIN
NAMUR
ATHENS
MAASTRICHT
COPENHAGEN
Specific focus
POINTS OF ATTENTION
UNIVERSITY
Language
MADRID
Basic level of Spanish
required
Project-based
NAMUR
Participation in existing
EU project (border
control – ethics and
governance – responsible
innovation –
responsibility concept –
procedural approaches