EPINET

    (Integrated Assessment of Societal Impacts of Emerging Science and Technology from within Epistemic Networks)
    EPINET Consortium

  • Summary

    The funding for the EPINET project came while Cesagen was still operating at Lancaster. This project introduces the notion of epistemic networks as a way of conceptualising complex developments within emerging domains of innovation, as well as within the practices of evaluating their progress and outcomes. The aim of the project is to integrate a range of knowledge assessment methods and develop criteria for more socially robust and efficient interaction at the interfaces between critical evaluations and systematic assessments, policy making, and the world of innovators and research leaders. The work is guided by four case studies:

    1) Wearable sensors

    2) Cognition for technical systems

    3) In-vitro meat

    4) Smart grids

    The official EPINET project website.

    Contract No: FP7-288971
    Programme: FP7 Capacities
    Science in Society
    EU Grant: 1,488,746 €

  • Members of the Lancaster team

    Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir
    Brian Wynne
    Neil Stephens

    Project partners:
    University of Bergen, Norway (coordinator)
    Lancaster University, England
    University of Sussex, England
    Vrije Universiteit, Belgium
    Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
    JRC -Joint Research Centre- European Commission
    Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

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