'Investigar, educar, dialogar. Las lecciones que aprendimos de José Mariano Gago (1948-2015)'. Con este título celebramos los días 1 y 2 de junio de 2016 en la Fundación Ramón Areces un simposio para homenajear la trayectoria de quien fue ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología (1995-2002) y ministro de Ciencia, Tecnología y Educación Superior (2005-2011) de Portugal. Gago desempeñó una labor crucial en el diseño de los planes de desarrollo de la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación, no solo en su país sino en toda Europa.

1. The European Science Foundation
or rather
Scientific Collaboration in Europe
Prof. Enric Banda, MAE
Researching, Educating, Dialoguing.
The lessons we learnt from José Mariano Gago (1948-2015)
Fundación Ramón Areces - Madrid 1-2 June, 2016

3. “The rapid expansion of higher education and
science at world level should be viewed as an
extraordinary opportunity for celebrating and
strengthening the values of science for
humanism and peaceful development”
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Mariano Gago, July 17, 2014, Barcelona
Science policy and the values of science in difficult times

4. “However, in view of the current difficult
challenges both in developed and developing
regions, this would require a much higher degree
of engagement of scientists in public policy, and
a wider social constituency for science”
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Mariano Gago, July 17, 2014, Barcelona
Science policy and the values of science in difficult times

5. The right questions
 How the expansion of science and higher education at world
level may be shaping the role of social constituencies for
scientific development, new trends in agenda-setting and
science policy?
 How risk governance on the one hand, and increasing social
demand for the appropriation of health related knowledge, on
the other hand, may be shaping the social responsibility of
science?
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6.  How amateurs, users, patients, and professionals may be
emerging as new actors in science?
 How democracies may be challenged by external fanaticism and
war, and by their own internal systems of defence and security?
 How can we help those scientists in the developing world who
are striving to make science and science values adopted as
triggers of social progress in their own societies?
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The right questions

7. Horizon Magazine, March 2015
“Public funding for research is
dangerously low in many countries and
collective action needs to be taken”
José Mariano Gago
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8. ESF main “strands” of actions
 Scientific networking in Europe
 New methods of collaboration for research funding
 Provision of scientific/technical advice and assessment
(especially concerning Large Research Facilities)
 Science policy, including advisory role
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9. ESF role in ERA
 Inter-agency cooperation
(national research organisations)
 Partnership with EU and other European institutions
• EUROCORES
• Infrastructures
• Conferences
• Foresight
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10. ESF role in ERA
 Independent
 Responsive to research needs(bottom up)
• Researchers
• Research organisations
A European Research Council?
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European Research Council:
- Strengthening Research Quality in Europe
- Developing capacity acrss the continent
- Competition at a European level

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13. “CERN, an intergovernmental particle physics
laboratory, is certainly the most outstanding
example of collaborative scientific success in
Europe”
José Mariano Gago
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Horizon Magazine, March 2015

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15. “I am now convinced that the EU programmes for human resources
for science and technology have been extremely important for
research in Europe, although they are still unacceptably limited in
their dimension”
“Overall qualified human resources for science and technology are
today the most precious asset for the EU and for each of its nations”
José Mariano Gago
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Horizon Magazine, March 2015

16. Mariano Gago, July 17, 2014, Barcelona
Science policy and the values of science in difficult times
“However, in view of the current difficult
challenges both in developed and developing
regions, this would require a much higher
degree of engagement of scientists in
public policy, and a wider social
constituency for science”
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17. Governance
Ethics
Open Access
Education
Public
engagement
Gender
Equality
• Shift from individualist and
consequentialist thinking about
responsibility towards
collective and distributed
notions of responsibility.
• Ambition to conduct science
and innovation towards more
socially desirable and
sustainable ends.
RRI Process requirements: Anticipatory, reflective, deliberative, responsive...

18. Polemics on the scientific method and science comm.,
specially Open Access

19. What is the level of involvement citizens should have when it
comes to decisions made about science and technology?
Answer: Public dialogue is required (Req: 55% - Not Req: 37%)
• 77% of Europeans believe that
science and technology have a
positive impact in society
• 62% agree that science makes
our way of life change too fast
• 55% think that public dialogue
is required when it comes to
decisions made about science
and technology
Special Eurobarometer 401.
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Science and Technology

20. RRI Europe’s ability to respond to
societal challenges
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Shared
responsibility
Anticipatory
governance
Engagement
R&I process

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Thank youenric.banda@gmail.com