A study of a structured faculty exchange program established between Carnegie Mellon University and Portuguese universities found the program enabled the Portuguese faculty to acquire new pedagogies, collaborative opportunities, and access to international research-related resources. Another finding was that a longer time spent at the host university proved beneficial for assimilating new ideas and approaches. The faculty participants gave positive ratings to their experiences in the exchange program. (55 ref)-Shephard, Kerry, et al. Valuing and Evaluating Community-Engaged Scholarship.
European societal challenges tackled by the Horizon 2020 [11]. Formalized by the European Council with the declaration of Rome in November 2014, RRI was broadly defined as 'the on-going process of aligning research and innovation to the values, needs and expectations of society'. For such purpose it requires that all stakeholders, including civil society, take shared responsibility for the processes and outcomes of
In recent years, increasing criticism has been levelled against case study based research on public engagement and participation in science and technology (PEST). Most critics argue that such case studies are highly contextual and fail to provide global, holistic and systemic views of public engagement phenomena. In this study, we mapped the case study literature on PEST by identifying a robust sample of articles, and analysed it looking for emerging patterns that could provide empirical evidence for new frameworks of public engagement design and analysis. Results show that the case study based literature on PEST continues to grow, although concentrated in a few countries and knowledge domains. The trends that emerged from the sample reveal high centralisation and planning and suggest that deficit science communication models are still common. We argue that future frameworks may focus on decentralising hierarchical power and dependency relationships between agents.
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