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Research
Programming for Excellence.
Is it possible; and if so: desirable?
October 17th - 19th 2002, Warsaw, Poland
Programme
Wednesday,
October 16th, 2002
| 19:00: |
Reception &
Get together party |
Thursday,
October 17th, 2002
| 09:00 -
10:00: |
Registration |
Opening
Session
Chairman: Stanislaw Walukiewicz - CIMPAN |
| 10:00 -
10:45: |
Welcome
addresses
Jan Krzysztof Frackowiak, State Secretary & Ronald J. Pohoryles - ICCR
Vienna |
| 10:45 -
11:15: |
Coffee
Break |
| 11:15 -
12:30: |
Roundtable
discussion
Francois Bafoil, Jan Krzysztof Frackowiak, Maciej W. Grabski, Danuta
Huebner,
Malgorzata Pawlisz, Jacek Piechota and Jacek Saryusz-Wolski |
| 12:30 -
14:00: |
Lunch |
Session
1: Government and governance in science: are boundaries shifting?
Chairman: Tadeusz Zoltowski -
CIMPAN
Rapporteurs: Eino Tunkelo - The Finnish Academy of Technology and
Maria Nedeva - PREST
Recent studies have shown that in the field
of science and research "governance" is not merely rhetoric, but
plays a major role in policy making. Governance can be understood as a way
how governments implement their aims and strategic options in consultation
with the other actors in science and research. More specifically, science
policy options to sustain reasonable scientific achievement in a situation
of scarcity of public funding have to be addressed. This is even more
important for the CCs combining a low GERD with a low GDP. Relevant to
this is the analysis of coherence of research policy options between the
different funding institutions and ministries.
Governance has to be understood as an
interaction between knowledge producers, policy makers and other
stakeholders in the field as outlined in the Commission’s Communication
"Science and Society". Stakeholders are not just policy makers
and industries, but citizens and non-governmental institutions as well
(regional groups, patients’ initiatives, social groups, etc.). |
| 14:00 -
14:30: |
Boundary
Crossing
Chris Caswill - ESRC |
| 14:30 -
15:00: |
From
research policy to the governance of research? A theoretical
framework and some empirical conclusions
John Crowley & Elise Féron - CIR Paris |
| 15:00 -
15:30: |
The
impact of international organisations on national science and technology
policy and good governance
Klaus-Heinrich Standke - International Academy Schloß Bayreuth |
| 15:30 -
16:00: |
Discussion |
| 16:00 -
16:30: |
Coffee
Break |
| 16:30 -
17:00: |
Management
in business and governance of science
Stanislaw Walukiewicz - CIMPAN |
| 17:00 -
17:30: |
Persuaded
Industrial Interest in State Funded Research
Hans-Liudger Dienel - Centre for Technology and Society, Berlin |
| 17:30 -
18:00: |
Discussion |
| 18:00: |
Dinner |
Friday,
October 18th, 2002
Session
2: Excellence in national and international context (Morning)
Chairperson: Maria Nedeva - PREST
Rapporteurs: Riccardo Cappellin - University of Rome &
Judith Mosoni-Fried - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
In more recent policy making for science
and technology achieving "research excellence" has gained quite
an exceptional status and has become one of the leading themes/aims of
policy. This process is fairly universal and governments of countries
varying widely according to their levels of socio-economic and
technological development include ‘achieving research excellence’ into
their political discourse. Meanwhile the very concept of ‘research
excellence’ as well as its social manifestations and supporting policies,
are fairly complex, multi-faceted and more often than not politically and
culturally grounded. This workshop aims to initiate a focused and, we hope,
fruitful discussion on the meaning and implementation of ‘excellence in
research’ within different cultural contexts. It is our conviction that
such a discussion is particularly timely in the light of implementation of
the European Research Area (ERA).
The following topics will be addressed:
a) The changing (or not) nature and
understanding of ‘research excellence’ in different national contexts.
Here particularly important and interesting issues are: ‘Is ‘research
excellence’ understood to mean the same thing(s) within different
cultural and policy-making contexts?’; ‘What are the ways and
mechanisms (tools) used to distinguish ‘research excellence’?; ‘Are
‘research excellence’ and ‘scientific excellence’ different?’
b) Policies for ‘excellence’. Here the
discussion will focus on the variety of national/regional policies aiming
to encourage ‘research excellence’. Presentations raising the issues
related to diverging rationales for policy formulation and implementation
are particularly welcome. While discussing these rationales contributors
are encouraged to consider the international dimensions of the issue of
‘research excellence’.
c) Excellent research and best practice. Is
‘excellent research’ entirely contextual or it is possible to
establish and disseminate best practice?
d) How to register and measure ‘excellent
research’? Under this heading contributors are invited to consider (and
share experience about) ways to evaluate excellence in research. |
| 10:00 -
10:30: |
Consensus
of the excellence paradigm, differences of the approaches to put
it into practice
Christo Balarew & Mirolyuba Madjarova - Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences |
| 10:30 -
11:00: |
New
directions for the governance of science policy - A view from Portugal
Tiago Santos Pereira - Institute for International Scientific and
Technological Cooperation, Lisboa |
| 11:00 -
11:30: |
Discussion |
| 11:30 -
12:00: |
Coffee
Break |
| 12:00 -
12:30: |
Evaluating
Excellence
Kate Barker - PREST |
| 12:30 -
13:00: |
Discussion |
| 13:00 -
14:00: |
Lunch |
Session
3: Networking for excellence (Afternoon)
Chairman: Michael Steiner - Technical University Graz
Rapporteurs: John Crowley - CIR Paris & Hans-Luidger Dienel - ZTG,
Berlin
Networking is the mechanism for production
and reproduction of social capital. In R&D, networking is also a
mechanism for production and reproduction of cognitive capital.
There are four major structural levels for
networking in R&D aiming at the increase of quality of research and
development.
- First, this is the structural level of
networking in R&D teams. The constructive group dynamics is the
major mechanism of networking which fosters excellence at this level of
R&D.
- At the level of R&D organizations
the well balanced relation of formal rules and informality is the major
characteristic of networking supportive to excellence.
- At the third level of national R&D
complexes the situation is to some extent similar because of the need to
keep a balance between the necessary state support to R&D and the
very much needed autonomy of R&D institutions.
- Fourth, international networking is
getting more and more relevant in fostering excellence in R&D.
Given this background, there are three
burning issues for discussion: What factors foster or hinder constructive
networking at these structural levels of R&D systems and thus foster
or hinder excellence in R&D? What are the relationships between
networking at these four structural levels and how do they influence
excellence of R&D? Last but not least, what are the implications of
the emerging common European Research Area for networking at the different
levels in R&D and consequently on the search for excellence in
European science?
In this session very specific features of
networking for excellence have to be addressed. It should be practically
oriented, as a forum of exchanges of good practices, suggestions, comments
of practitioners etc. |
| 14:00 -
14:30: |
Territorial
knowledge management: towards a metrics of the cognitive
dimension of agglomeration economies
Riccardo Cappellin - University of Rome |
| 14:30 -
15:00: |
Networks
as evolving social technologies. Institutional perspectives and
policy issues
Michael Steiner - University of Graz |
| 15:00 -
15:30: |
Discussion |
| 15:30 -
16:00: |
Lunch |
| 16:00 -
16:30: |
The
social-ecological research programme – towards an transdisciplinary
and integrated governance structure in science and research on global
change
Alexander Carius - ADELPHI Research Berlin |
| 16:30 -
17:00: |
The
Role of Networks for the Development of Knowledge
Lidiya Kavunenko - Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, STEPS, Kiev |
| 17:00 -
17:30: |
Setting
up innovative networks in Silesia
Jan Stachowicz & Stanislaw Walukiewicz - CIMPAN |
| 17:30 -
18:00: |
Discussion |
| 18:00 -
18:45: |
Buffet
Dinner |
| 18:45 -
19:30: |
Concert
at the National Philharmonic Hall |
Saturday,
October 19th, 2002
Closing
Session
Chairman: Ronald J. Pohoryles - ICCR Vienna |
| 10:00 -
10:30 |
Conclusions
Christo Balarew & Mirolyuba Madjarova - Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences |
| 10:30 -
12:30: |
Round
table discussion
Aaron Benavot, Konrad Buschbeck, Krzysztof Jan Kurzydlowski
and Jan Woroniecki |
| 12:30 -
14:00: |
Lunch |
| 14:00 -
15:00: |
Steering
Committee - transfer to Warsaw |
| 15:00 -
17:00: |
Steering
Committee Meeting |
| 18:00: |
Dinner |
Available
Downloads:
Progamme: [semmering7-programme.pdf]
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