Italians are more and more willing to talk about going back to using nuclear energy. Twenty years after the referendum on nuclear energy, more than one out of three Italians declare they are in favour of investments in nuclear energy, whereas less than four out of ten are still contrary. One out of four is…
ESCITY is the acronym of Europe, Science and the City: promoting scientific culture at local level, a two-year project (2006-2007) aimed at creating the core of a network for the exchange of information and best practices in the area of promoting scientific culture. Two particular features characterize it: firstly, ESCITY focuses on local and regional…
Stem cells, biotechnology, genetic testing, privacy, nanotechnology, neurosciences: nowadays, politics deals more and more frequently with decision making-processes concerning science and technology issues; At the same time there is a growing demand for greater public involvement in establishing science and technology policy. But how can society become more effectively involved, beyond giving their views in…
Flying cities, mozzerella ravioli, and The Beatles: the unedited meetings between astrophsyicians, artists, philosophers and chefs. “The astro-physician and the artist play with the idea of building a flying city. The chef and the food science expert discuss how similar the kitchen is to a laboratory. The sociologist and the linguistic philosopher explore the cover…
Since the early 1980’s, the post-Mao China has been governed by three generations of technocratic leadership. As a result of massive elite transformation under new leadership of Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s, technocrat emerged at the core leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China. While the CCP, under Mao’s regime, was largely led…
Stem cells, biotechnology, genetic testing, privacy, nanotechnology, neurosciences: nowadays, politics deals more and more frequently with decision making-processes concerning science and technology issues; At the same time there is a growing demand for greater public involvement in establishing science and technology policy. But how can society become more effectively involved, beyond giving their views in…
Gender equity in techno-scientific careers has become one of the central issues in the research and innovation policies agenda of national and international institutions. In the framework of the Gender Action Plan launched by two European project on genomics, SABRE and EADGENE, Observa has promoted a survey among research personnel involved in the networks with…
