PROTECTING SCIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS - How do we stop being reactive, and become more proactive?

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PROTECTING SCIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS - How do we stop being reactive, and become more proactive?

1 Feb 2024

council.science About the Centre for Science Futures: The ISC established the Centre for Science Futures in 2023 to improve our understanding of emerging trends in science and research systems and to provide options and tools for impact and action. [...] This working paper delves into the role of science in protecting and supporting its own scientific communities, science systems, and related infrastructure affected by crises, by addressing the lack of a systematic approach to implementing the 2017 UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Research, which calls for policies to protect and preserve scientific research, infrastructure, and arc. [...] Leaders of the science sector must utilize advocacy, diplomacy and modern communication tools to enhance public understanding of the value of science for recovery and rebuilding, and to influence policy response to ensure that science is on the recovery and rebuilding agenda. [...] The International Science Council (ISC)’s work on science in times of crisis has focused on how to mobilize scientific communities to protect and support refugee and displaced scientists and their families, how to help them continue to work and engage in international research collaboration, and how to ensure that the contributions of scientists are not lost. [...] 1 The definition of open science as taken by this paper: An inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone, to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society, and to open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, eva.
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France