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MERCK SERONO SCIENTIFIC CONTEST
Merck Serono intends to strengthen its commitment to spreading and promoting a culture of science, turning this time to a…More
SCIENCE IN SOCIETY PERFORMACES
In recent years, an increasing number of research institutions at national and European level has devoted time and resources to…More
TIME for NANO
The TIME for NANO Project aims at engaging the general public, with a special attention to young people, on benefits…More
ITALIANS AND BLOOD DONATION
Italian health activities increasingly require the contribution of transfusion medicine. Despite the fact that Italy as a whole has now…More
MAPPING SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES
Is climate changing due to human activities? Do GMOs effectively address food challenges at the global level? Are nanotechnology developments…More
The PAR.CO Project
In 2007 ATO of Valle del Chiampo, a consortium of thirteen municipalities in the western area of the Province of…More
ESCITY – Europe, Science and the City
ESCITY is the acronym of Europe, Science and the City: promoting scientific culture at local level, a two-year project (2006-2007)…More
Decide (DEliberative CItizen DEbates)
Stem cells, biotechnology, genetic testing, privacy, nanotechnology, neurosciences: nowadays, politics deals more and more frequently with decision making-processes concerning science…More
Women and science
Gender equity in techno-scientific careers has become one of the central issues in the research and innovation policies agenda of…More
EcoGenEtic.com
EcoGenEtic.com is an organ of multidisciplinary study and research on the question of risk management on plant exogenous gene transfer…More
Genetic Data, Security and Public Opinion in Italy
Almost 80% of Italian citizens are favourable to the use of DNA tests use in the fight to crime, particularly…More
Biotechnologies and Public Opinion in Italy
A large part (70%) of Italian citizens think that the media do not pay enough attention to biotechnologies and would…More
First Italian Forum on “Science and Society”
Within the framework of the first European Science & Society Forum 2005, promoted by the European Commission to highlight the…More
Public participation and governance of innovation
Contemporary techno-scientific innovations have raised a fall in traditional decision making processes showing the weakness of experts’ system and the…More
Do young people not like science anymore?
The decreasing interest of youth towards studying science subjects is a perceived phenomenon in many countries of the world. Less…More
Food in Veneto Region: habits, risks and culture
Observa, in collaboration with the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie and The Regione Veneto, has fulfilled a study on consumers…More
Biotechnologies: Democracy and Governance of Innovation
Italians are getting more and more skeptical towards GMOs (68% of respondents considers them unsafe, compared to 49% in 2001),…More
Couldn’t be without it
Observa has just concluded a survey in five European countries (Italy, Germany, UK, Norway and Portugal) on the most common…More
The Cognitive Impact of Museum Visit
A first attempt to analyse, by way of a field study, the expectations people have when visiting museums, and particularly…More
Learning Physics by Visiting Laboratories?
Project Inside the Big Black Box (IN3B), Analysis and evaluation of the impact on visitors of public visits programme to…More
Citizen Involvement in Decision Making about Biotechnologies
Project PARADYS “Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning – the Case of Biotechnology. Images of Self and Others in…More
Biotechnologies between responsability and Innovation
The second survey of ‘Biotechnologies and public opinion in Italy’, resulting from a cooperation between the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti Poster…More
Biotechnologies and Public Opinion in Italy
Observa, together with Poster, a research center active in the field of social research and in particular in the area…More