Odense, Denmark 23-25 April 2012
The EU Presidency conference Science in Dialogue will outline different perspectives on how to further develop the dialogue and interaction between science and society. It will discuss how societal actors, researchers and innovators become more mutually responsive and reflective with regard to the ethical acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the direction taken by the innovation process and its marketable products.

• To the Conference website

We are delighted to announce a limited financial subsidy to help Community Members / NGOs, Post Doctoral Fellows and Graduate Students to attend the 5th Living Knowledge Conference (10-12 May 2012) in Bonn.

Please note that the size of this fund is small and as a result we will not be able to support a large number of applicants. If your application is not accepted the insufficiency of the funds is the primarily reason why.
Under circumstance, we believe the scholarship fund provides an invaluable opportunity for the LK supporters to “make connections that count.”

 
What Does the Scholarship Fund Offer?

The scholarship fund will cover the conference registration fee (includes conference lunches and conference dinner, accommodation (max. 3 nights) at the conference venue). We are not able to provide assistance to cover travel costs, incidental and outside the conference meals.

The deadline for the Scholarship Application is March 15th, 2012.
The notices of the outcomes will be announced on March 20th, 2012. Successful applicants will be asked to confirm whether or not they will accept the offer by the March 30th final deadline.

Application Procedures

1. Please complete and the applicant contact information and application statements. The application must be received by March 15, 2012.
2. All applications received by March 15, 2012 will be reviewed by a Scholarship Committee. Applicants will be notified by March 20, 2012.
3. Applicants who have been awarded a scholarship must confirm if they accept the scholarship by March 30th, 2012 and must complete their Conference Registration no later than April 8th, 2012.

No extension will be granted if these deadlines are missed.

To Scholarship Application Form

The theme of the 10th issue of the Living Knowledge Journal of
Community-Based Research is “Re-imagining Research Relationships:
Co-creating Knowledge in a Democratic Society.”  The journal welcomes the
contribution of reports, articles, news, press releases and clippings,
letters, contribution to discussions, job offers, internships etc. To
simplify your contribution you can send your press releases, headlines,
brief information or news. Reports and detailed articles should follow
the editorial guidelines for the journal.

Here’s a link to the May 2011 issue

Please note that the journal is not a peer reviewed scientific
publication.  Its purpose is to disseminate informative articles and
reports that represent the current work of Science Shops and similar
organisations in the field of community based research.

The deadline is 2 March 2012.  Please send your contributions to: Norbert
Steinhaus, norbert.steinhaus@wilabonn.de

Entitled to nominate are specialists and experts in the field of child and adolescent research worldwide. The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize awards outstanding scientific contributions of individuals from all disciplines aiming at the improvement of young people’s development and perspectives worldwide. All documents pertaining to the nomination should be submitted to the offices of the Jacobs Foundation by 15 March 2012.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, from 1:00PM to 2:00PM New York Time

Within the new series of monthly live webinars on “Emerging Practices in Equity-focused Evaluations1″, UNICEF, UNWOMEN, the Rockefeller Foundation, Claremont Graduate University and IOCE, in partnership with IDEAS, OHCHR, UNEG Task Force on National Evaluation Capacities, UNDP, ILO, IDRC and PAHO, are pleased the ninth webinar with Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign on “Values-Engaged Evaluation.”

Webinars are free and open to interested people. You may attend virtually from your personal or work computer anywhere in the world. In addition to watching live presentations, you will have the option to ask questions and provide comments. You just need a computer, internet connection, speakers and a mic/headphone. You will also be able to write comments and continue the discussion after the webinar.

Agenda
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, from 1:00PM to 2:00PM New York Time.
Please check the local time in your own town at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

12h30 – 1h00 Log in
(To log in, simply type your name and organization) of participants at
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008270&password=M.35CA10352FCB356727E3E1CED9E262

1h00 – 1h05 Welcome
Marco Segone, Systemic management, UNICEF Evaluation Office
        
1h05 – 1h25 Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign

1h25 – 1h55 Questions and Answers
Moderator: Stewart Donaldson, Claremont Graduate University

1h55 – 2h00 Wrap-up
Penny Hawkins, Evaluations Specialist, the Rockefeller Foundation
 

The call for posters for the 5th Living Knowledge Conference will end 1 March 2012. The acceptance notices will be sent by 15 March 2012. We reserved a special space and time for the poster presentations  (there’s no other session parallel) on Friday morning, 11 May. We are looking forward to your interest to share your work with other colleagues and to contribute in making the conference a success. More information

Early bird fees apply. Please follow the link for the registration process

In June 2011 started the Sozialwissenschaftsladen (Social Science Shop), a non-profit-organisation
based in Berlin, Germany, that aims at the mediation between science and society. It tries to strengthen community oriented research and education at Universities and to disseminate interesting societal topics by offering seminars and workshops, writing papers and evaluations, conceptualising own projects and realizing them in cooperation with different partners. The interdisciplinary team (political science, sociology, economy, pedagogy and cultural science) is focussed on the topics: participative research methods, empirical research methods, social, political and cultural change related to the European
Union, ethnicity and migration and education, employment and labour market.
Contact: Sabine Schwirner: schwirner@sozialwissenschaftsladen.de; Serttas Dündar: duendar@sozialwissenschaftsladen.de, www.sozialwissenschaftsladen.de (English version of the website is coming soon)

New Science Shop launched in Grenoble, France

With the start of the new academic year 2011, ADReCA (Association pour le Developpement d’une Recherche Citoyenne et Active ) has officially launched its science shop, called ‘L’Echop’ à Sciences’. A new website online , which will allow NGOs, scientists and students to interact. During the past five years the support of Living Knowledge and PERARES has been essential to enable this project to be realized.
The French partners are the Fondation Science Citoyenne (FSC) and there is a similar project in Lyon. In parallel the ADReCA successfully bided for funding to support research projects, via the Rhone-Alpes regional authority’s “Université Citoyenne et Solidaire” program.
Since March 2010 the ADReCA employs 2 staff, who are building a network of contacts with NGOs and scientists. In June the ADReCA, with the FSC, ran a successful two-day Permanent Dialogue workshop with 30 members of the NGO and scientific community. The conclusions were clear. NGO’s need scientific expertise and the scientific community is willing to work with NGOs but is limited in terms of time and resources for such projects. Information: www.echopa-sciences.org/

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement is pleased to announce the publication of its fourth volume, a special edition on the theme of ‘Sustaining community-university partnerships’. It is the result of a collaboration between Gateways and the University of Brighton Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP), and is guest edited by Professor Angie Hart and Simon Northmore of CUPP.

Gathered together in this volume are articles from around the world, reflecting on projects and partnerships big and small, young and more established. The articles offer a wealth of detailed material and identify some important characteristics of sustainable community-university partnership working, often in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage. The commitment, creativity and ingenuity on display in these articles suggests that there are many reasons for optimism when reflecting on the sustainability of community-university partnership working. To read more, go to: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ijcre/index