Project description
A boost for EU science diplomacy capacities
The challenges facing EU foreign policy are increasingly complex and urgent. While Europe possesses remarkable scientific capacities and champions open science, the potential of science and science cooperation to address these challenges remains largely untapped. A significant barrier lies in the lack of communication between the scientific and diplomatic communities. As the world becomes more interconnected, scientific knowledge and networks offer a promising solution. In this context, the EU-funded S4D4C project is supporting EU science diplomacy. By fostering collaboration between experts in foreign and science policy, advisors, science diplomacy professionals, and diplomatic training institutions, the project aims to develop a governance framework, training modules, and recommendations to strengthen the EU’s science diplomacy capacities.
Objective
The challenges for EU foreign policy increase in complexity and urgency. Scientific knowledge and networks contribute to the solution of a number of these challenges. The prospects for these contributions are promising, not least in light of Europe’s scientific capacities and the efforts towards open science, which the European Union is leading. However, the opportunities science and science cooperation offer for European Union foreign policy are underexploited.
While the EU’s foreign policy landscape is now better set up to develop and exploit science diplomacy, the scientific and diplomatic communities often do not communicate with each other. Organising science diplomacy in a multi-level governance system is a challenge, as is dealing with interdependency. There is also no clear model for recruiting and employing science diplomats.
The goal of the S4D4C project is to support current and future EU science diplomacy for the benefit of the Union’s strategic capacities, foreign policy goals and the development of solutions for societal challenges.
In order to achieve this, S4D4C brings together scholars of foreign and science policy, advisors, science diplomacy professionals and diplomatic training institutions. We analyse cases of EU science diplomacy that relate to foreign policy goals, relevant EU-level instruments and important scientific developments. Employing a co-creation approach with stakeholders, we craft a governance framework for science diplomacy. It contains recommendations and models for science diplomacy interfaces, processes and knowledge resources. Furthermore, we develop training modules for current and future science diplomats.
At the end of S4D4C, the EU will have strengthened science diplomacy capacities, which will contribute to its foreign policy goals and commitments. The EU will also be more visibly positioned as a global thought leader in exploiting science and science diplomacy for the benefit of foreign policy and society.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- social sciences sociology governance
- social sciences political sciences political policies foreign policy
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies
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H2020-EU.3.6.2.4. - Promote coherent and effective cooperation with third countries
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RIA - Research and Innovation action
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-SC6-ENG-GLOBALLY-2016-2017
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1150 Wien
Austria
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