Observa is carrying on the First Italian Forum on-line on “Science and Society”, a new discussion space on science and technology issues and their relationship with society. This Forum offers to all participants the opportunity to raise issues and proposals in order to improve the dialogue between science and citizens, or simply to express their…
The choice of a place to store garbage or to build up a thermo-electric station, traffic limitation’s measures to reduce pollution, experiments and trading on GMOs, the use in medicine and research of embryo’s staminal cells: the public agenda and the one of political decisions, even at local level, get full of complex questions related…
Observa, in partnership with the National Committee for Biosafety and Biotechnologies, is conducting the fourth survey on Biotechnologies and public opinion in Italy. The 2003 edition revealed that Italians grew more skeptical attitude towards GM food – two italians out of three considering it dangerous, while they continued to express a remarkable positive attitude with…
In the last twenty years scientific research and technological innovations have been abruptly accelerating, at the same time of important political and social changes (as the end of the bipolar balance and the increasing globalisation of economy): this contributed to the complexity of the relation between three of the most important agents of our society…