CIMULACT has as a main objective to add to the relevance and accountability of European research and innovation – Horizon 2020 as well as national - by engaging citizens and stakeholders in co-creation of research agendas based on real and validated societal visions, needs and demands. The project will expand the outlook and debate on STI issues, increase scientific literacy in a broad sense, which includes the understanding of the societal role of Science, Technology and innovation (STI), and create shared understanding between scientific stakeholders, policy-makers and citizens. This multiactor approach will embrace EU28 plus Norway and Switzerland.

The CIMULTACT builds on the principle/conviction that the collective intelligence of society gives Europe a competitive advantage, which may be activated to strengthen the relevance of the European science and technology system. By establishing genuine dialogue between citizens, stakeholders, scientists, and policy-makers, visions and scenarios for the desirable futures will be developed and debated, and transformed into recommendations and suggestions for research and innovation policies and topics.

To achieve its objectives, CIMULACT will execute the following activities:

● Create vision and scenarios that connect societal needs with future expected advances in Science and their impact on technology, society, environment etc. in connection to the grand challenges;

● Provide concrete input to Horizon 2020 through recommendations and policy options for R&I and simulated calls for the Horizon2020 Work Programmes;

● Engage citizens and stakeholders in a highly participatory debate/consultation/process on scenarios for desirable sustainable futures and research;

● Build capacities in citizen and multi-actor engagement in R&I through development experimentation, training and assessment of methods for engagement;

● Facilitate dialogue and shared understanding between policymakers, citizens, and stakeholders;

● Reveal the relative merits of the citizen focussed consultations;

CIMULACT is supported by Horizon 2020 and will run for 30 months

The project brings together 24 partners, including:

The Danish Board of Technology Foundation (Denmark)

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Germany)

Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) - Institute of Technology Assessment (Austria)

Missions Publiques (France)

Strategic Design Scenarios (Belgium)

Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)

Institutul de Prospectiva (Romania)

Applied Research and Communications Fund (Bulgaria)

Green Dependent Institute Nonprofit Ltd (Hungary)

Politecnico Milano, Design Department (Italy)

Association for Science and Discovery Centres (UK)

The Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (Spain)

Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment (Switzerland)

National Consumer Research Centre (Finland)

Norwegian Board of Technology (Norway)

The Institute for Sustainable Technologies – National Research Institute (Poland)

Knowledge economy forum (Lithuania)

Baltic Consulting (Latvia and Estonia)

University college Cork (Ireland)

Research institute (Netherlands)

Mediatedomain (Portugal)

University of Malta (Malta)

Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)

Slovenian Business & Research Association (Slovenia)

Contacts:

Zoya Damianova, zoya.damianova@online.bg