BrasilBreizh - Workshops in Science and Democracy World Forum

Workshops - February 4th and 5th, 2011 - Dakar

                            foto da biblioteca da Universidade de Dakar, Senegal, R. Nizet

February 4th, 2011

- Synergies researchers/civil society to have a better influence on policy makers (a worshop proposed by : DRC-CRDI of Canada and IRD of France) :

    How can civil society organisations use science and research more effectively to renforce their action movement and advocacy ?

     How can researchers and scientists build alliances and working relationships with civil society ?

-   Knowledge commons (a workshop proposed by : VECAM- France, AIPSN-India, UNAMAZ-Brazil, CODESRIA-Africa)

-   Governance of Emerging Technologies (a workshop proposed by "Friends of the Earth - USA and Australia, ETC Group - Canada, Brazilian Research Network in Nanotechnology, Society and Environment - Brazil,  Biofuel Watch - UK and VivAgora - France)

-   Unions Science and antiglobalism (a workshop proposed by SNESUP - France, World Federation of Scientific Workers - FQPPU - Quebec :

     Current transformations of societies and of their environment require to consider research sciences and tecnologies as one of the crucial topics to deepen in priority. The union's vision defended here consider missions, management and professions of research as a service mostly public, knowledge as a common good and scientific activities as meaningful for both scientific actors and society.

-  Science Education issues : cultural appropriation by social movements and stakes of universal education (a workshop proposed by RIP-France and Association "Petits débrouillards"-France and Sociologists without borders - International Network)

       Science Education remains to be one of the most important way of individual emancipation of children and young people around the world.

 Christian Leray

http://christianleray.over-blog.com