This section lists articles and reports for download which are written and edited by Science Shops and Living Knowledge Network partners about their work and experiences. Included are the findings from previous Science Shop cooperation projects such as SCIPAS, ISSNET, interacts or TRAMS but also media reports related to Science Shops.

In addition articles, reports and policy papers are mentioned which might be of interested for those active in Community Based Research, Public Engagement in Research, Service Learning or any other participatory activity.
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Documentation

• Degree of Public Participation in Science Shops: An exploratory Study
  by Francesc Rodríguez. The objective of the research for the master thesis is to provide insights into the Science Shops and Community-Based Research centers and to shed light in particular on the degree of public participation in theses facilities. A Master’s Thesis at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Universität Bielefeld, Germany April 2011 (pdf, 2MB)
  

• Bread, cheese, and expertise: Dutch Science Shops and democratic institutions
  PhD thesis by Nicole Farkas (May 2002)  (pfd-file, 1 MB)

• The Making of Citizen Science – Network Alliances between Science Shops and CSOs Engaging in Science and Air Pollution
  A research project to explore how Science Shops could contribute to promoting a dialogue between the ACCENT research community and the civil society and at the same time provide an arena for dialogue with CSOs about their interests related to air pollution. PhD. Dissertation by Søsser Brodersen, You can download the pdf of the Phd here (4.5Mb).

• Science Shops: A kaleidoscope of science-society collaborations in Europe
  (Leydesdorff & Ward (2005), preprint of article in Public Understanding of Science)

• Curriculum Development through Science Shops
  FOKKINK, Arie and MULDER, Henk A.J.. Paper presented at ICEEM2, Iasi, Romania, Sep 2004 and reprinted (2004) in Environmental Management and Engineering Journal 3 (3), pp. 549-560
  More and more, European higher education is oriented towards the future role of students outside university, in society. The priority of higher education therefore shifts to teaching students how to continue to acquire new knowledge and to use knowledge in a societal context. Science shops offer one method to include experiences with these aspects in the curricula.

• New Communities and Mental Health in Ireland: A Needs Analysis
  Dublin City University in partnership with Cairde
  This EC funded project was developed within the Science Shop framework as promoted by the International Science Shop Network and mentored by the Science Shop of Queen’s University, Belfast. The NewCom project dealt with two issues of major concern to Irish society that are generally under-researched and under-funded. These issues are mental health and the welfare of new communities. The full report with recommendations can be downloaded here (pdf 560kb).

• PARCEL, 2005 – 2007 Participatory Communication Activities on E-Learning
  Information about the project “Participatory communication activities on e-learning” (PARCEL), an EC-funded pilot project under the co-ordination of the Science Shop Vienna to complement the dissemination activities of KALEIDOSCOPE and PROLEARN. Read more at http://parcel.uni-sofia.b

• SCIPAS reports (July 2001) (7 reports, pdf-files)

1. SCIPAS report 1 – Science Shops: Operational options (1.8 MB)
2. SCIPAS report 2 – Success and failure in starting Science Shops (1.4 MB)
3. SCIPAS report 3 – Training programmes for Science Shops (1.1 MB)
4. SCIPAS report 4 – The development of an international Science Shop magazine (1.5 MB)
5. SCIPAS report 5 – Development of a public Internet database of Science Shops (1.0 MB)
6. SCIPAS report 6 – The impact of Science Shops on university curricula and research (1.1 MB)
7. SCIPAS report 7 – Living Knowledge: the network – Accomplishments and further opportunities for developing an international network of Science Shops (1.1 MB)

• Final report of the EC project TRAMS
• Final reports and documentation of the EC project ISSNET
• Final report EC project Interacts
  Improving interaction between NGOs, Science Shops and Universities: Experiences and Expectations (Final report and Appendicies)

• Living Knowledge flyer
  A  flyer with information of the Living Knowledge Network (160 kB)

• Documentation 2nd Living Knowledge conference (Seville, February 2005)
  Some presentations of the international conference ‘Advancing Science and Society Interactions’

• EC Science Shop brochure: Knowledge for the community
  This brochure produced by the European Commission in close co-operation with the Living Knowledge Network gives information on activities and impact of Science Shops.  French version, German version

• EC Science Shop flyer
  Paper copies can be ordered at the European Commission – DG Research, Science and Society (liz.vesterlund@cec.eu.int) or downloaded

• Shopping for Science: Paths to Science for Everyone
  In : Natural Selections: A newsletter of the Rockefeller University Community
  (Issue 13, March 2005)

• Science Shops – Thinking the future and twinning old/new shops
  Presentations of a workshop on the role of universities, partnerships with the NGOs and local entities, and the promotion of new Science Shops in Europe. Ongoing and new projects were presented and a possible partnership with FP6 projects was also discussed.

• Grassroots goes global
  Pragmatics: journal of community based research, Vol 6. No. 1, Winter 02-03

• Neighbourhood Science
  Article on Science Shops in November 2004 issue of EC RTD Info: magazine of European Research (pdf-document, 1.2 MB) . Also available in French, German and Spanish

• Wetenschapswinkels in de kennissamenleving
  Article in the Dutch Journal of Higher Education (Tijdschrift voor Hoger Onderwijs)
  (abstract )

• Article on Science Shops in Nature (July 5, 2001) (pfd-file, 180 kB)

• Let’s revive Busan Science 
  Busan Daily News / Busanilbo (July 29, 2004), Korean article about Science Shops (pdf-file, 1.8 MB)

• Le retour des boutiques de sciences
  La Lettre EMERIT, nr 37, 2003 (pdf-file 300 kB)

• EC’s Science and Society Action Plan (December 2001)
  Action 21 of the action plan is about the support of initiatives to build an international network of Science Shops.

• Communiqué on North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement
  Organized by the Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research (GACER) executive an experimental Global Video Dialogue on Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement was set up on 23rd September 2010. The 8 participating global networks draw up a joint communiqué. Please feel free to forward it. Translations into a couple of more languages will be available soon. You can download the communiqué here (pdf, 81kb)