Global Governance of Science

1. The Report: Its Background and Recommendations Global Governance of Science

2. Theauthors • Pamela Andanda – South Africa • Matthias Kaiser – Norway • Carl Mitcham – USA • Linda Nielsen – Denmark • Žaneta Ozoliņa – Latvia • Ren-Zong Qiu – China • Nico Stehr – Germany • Jack Stilgoe - UK

3. Whatdrivesglobalgovernanceofscience? • Creeping global agenda – multi-level, multi-dimensional • Pressing national agenda • Intsitutionalism • International regime – laws, codes, norms • Growing networks • Economic pressures – challenges for growth

4. Whatdrivesglobalgovernanceofscience? • Transnationalism – innovation, technologies, brain - drain, circulation, bridges • Politics pressure on science and science pressure on politics • Expansion of interdisciplinarity • Science as a common international good • Ethics

5. HowtheReportapproachesglobalgovernance? • Global governance is about change • Change of actors • Change of resources • Change of methods • Change of relations (society and science, science and politcs, science and scientists) • Change of priority settings

6. HowtheReportapproachesgovernance? • Governance - as innovative practices of networks or horizontal forms of interaction, in which actors (political and non-political), arrive at mutually acceptable decisions. • Governance is needed for providing, distributing; regulating

7. Six Recommendations • #1 Within the society of science, ethical governance should be promoted. • #2 Scientists should be encouraged to be self-critical. • #3 Scientists should adopt open access publication protocols.

8. Six Recommendations • #4 ERA research projects should seek ways to enact fundamental human rights. • #5 ERA research should promote critical reflection on the ends as well as the means of science.

9. Six Recommendations • #6 EU should seek opportunities to exercise global leadership in harmonizing the internal and external governance of science across national borders.