Friday May 24th 2013
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The Danish Board of Technology is a part of an EU project to 1 billion Euro Information meeting for municipalities on comprehensive climate adaptation Theme meeting on the current energy policy in Denmark Successful dialogue meetings in Aarhus Municipality PACITA – Technology Assessment across Europe DESSI - Decision Support on Security Investments Renewable Energy Systems: role and use of Parliamentary Technology Assessment Security of eGovernment Systems |
EST Frame - Integrated EST Framework
Integrated assessment methods for measuring societal impacts of emerging science and technology. The aim of the EST Frame project is to contribute to socially robust and ethically sound research and technology development by providing further methodological development of appropriate tools for social impact assessment and technology evaluation. The project will appraise current assessment methods for evaluating emerging science and technology with the objectives of mapping their strengths and weaknesses and determining their appropriate application domains. It will examine the current policy context for emerging science and technology (EST) policy advice and will identify future trends and needs that should be considered. The project will also identify to what extent – and in what contexts –a framework of a more integrated nature can be applied, and it will examine the appropriate position that such an integrated framework can operate in, within a context characterised by internationalisation, market politics, and new forms of public-private partnerships in technology governance. Finally, this work will result in the design of a flexible, integrated framework that is intended to facilitate holistic societal dialogue and reflection as well most significantly, policy advice on emerging science and technologies.The main output of this project is an integrated framework that can be applied by policy forming actors (economic councils; ethical councils; technology appraisal institutes, government technology assessment boards, etc.) who are involved in the process of conducting analyses and coordinating policy deliberations on the broad range of science and technological developments. The project will use four examples of emerging science and technologies – (1) nanotechnology in food production, (2) synthetic biology, (3) biofuels and (4) security in emerging ICTs – to determine how current frameworks are applied to assess social impacts and then interpret these assessment procedures in the context of the integrated framework that will be developed within this project. An added value aspect of the project is the policy relevant outcomes that will result from the assessment of these four technology case studies. Project duration: 1/2012 – 12/2014 Coordinator: Oslo University College (N), Ellen-Marie Forsberg Partners: - Wageningen University and Research Center (NL), Erik de Bakker - University of Nottingham (UK), Kate Millar - Danish Board of Technology (DK), Lars Klüver - Fraunhofer ISI (D), Thomas Reiss Last update: 04-06-2012 
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