COALESCE Publications
Policy Briefs
Here, you can download the policy briefs produced during the project. These are practical policy recommendations to improve science communication at different levels, and are all available in the COALESCE Zenodo Community.
Policy Brief on excellent scicomm for society at large through informal activities
This policy brief is a living document with a set of policy recommendations that will evolve across the series of policy briefs as it integrates the outcomes of COALESCE case clinics on four topics: Climate, Water, Oceans and soils, Health, and Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation. While the case clinics inform the challenges that are raised in the Evidence and main findings section of each of the policy briefs, the recommendations are intended to be overarching. This policy brief draws together the main conclusions from SwafS-19 projects that pertain to the role of informal science engagement organisations, as well as drawing on the outcomes of the series of COALESCE case clinics carried out with representatives of different organisations, on the topic of public engagement on climate change, as one of the key topics addressed within COALESCE.
Policy Brief on excellent science communication for urgent societal challenges
The uncertain and interrelated nature of urgent societal issues makes the theory and practice of the field of science communication more important and relevant than ever. At the same time, supporting constructive dialogue and exchange between different types of knowledge and expertise while maintaining trust is challenging – especially in an era of misinformation and polarisation. This policy brief summarises the outcomes from a series of individual interviews and topic-based workshops that investigated how science communication can contribute to navigating complex, urgent societal issues in four topic areas: 1) Climate emergency, 2) Water, oceans and soils, 3) Health & vaccines, and 4) Artificial intelligence & digital transformation.
Policy Brief on boosting the science communication ecosystem in Europe
This policy brief represents an exercise of consolidating and outlining key findings from the Science with and for Society (SwafS-19) sister projects (QUEST, CONCISE, NEWSERA, GlobalSCAPE, RETHINK, PARCOS, ENJOI and TRESCA), funded under the H2020 programme to take stock and re-examine the role of science communication. The commitment of these sister projects and their members for sustaining a collective legacy gave origin to the COALESCE project.
This document is a first analysis on current reports/recommendations on science-communication policies and will feed a mutual-learning exercise in science communication run by COALESCE. The exercise will be open to EU member states and details will be announced soon.
Public Deliverables
Here, you can download all the public deliverables produced during the project. These are official reports about our key achievements, all available in the COALESCE Zenodo Community.
D1.2 COALESCE Data Management Plan
This document outlines the data management plan (DMP) prepared for the COALESCE project. It informs about the intentions of the consortium partners concerning data collection, its documentation, sharing and short- and long-term storage. It represents the most up-to-date knowledge and awareness of research data management, as well as data to be collected in the scope of the COALESCE project. The strategy aims to enable Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable (FAIR) data use, which will be actively evaluated throughout the project. The DMP will evolve during the lifespan of the project as a living document and will be regularly updated.
D1.3 Report on Ethics Management
This document reports on the management of the ethical dimensions within the COALESCE project. It informs about the procedures and criteria to identify and protect research participants, the protection of personal data and the development of consent forms and other ethical implications of the research efforts.
D6.2 Communication and Dissemination Guide for National and Regional Hubs and Networks
This guide is a resource for the N&R hubs and other networks and other aforementioned networks associated with COALESCE. It is intended to outline the aims of the communication activities but most importantly provide practical guidance on COALESCE-related communication activities. Moreover, it proposes ideas for co-organised events that could enhance the dissemination of COALESCE results and describes co-creation events that will be organised during the project lifetime to co-produce communication materials.
D2.1 Crisis Navigator for rapid mobilisation of science communication
The Crisis Navigator is designed as a strategic resource to support the rapid mobilisation of science communication in times of crisis. This first version specifically addresses science communicators, based on the guiding question: How can science communicators contribute when a crisis emerges? The Crisis Navigator distinguishes four key phases (pre-, imminent, actual, and post-crisis), in which science communication supports effective crisis management, creating space for constructive dialogue involving researchers and other stakeholders.
D4.4 Report on Educational Needs in SciComm for quadruple helix stakeholders and R&I actors
The COALESCE project is building the European Competence Centre for Science Communication, which will operate under a virtual platform connected to a distributed network of physical National and Regional Hubs. The Competence Centre will include a Science Communication Academy to provide training and support to quadruple helix stakeholders and research and innovation (R&I) actors with a view to improving the quality of science communication. This report focuses on understanding the skills used, training needs and preferred formats for training delivery expressed by the various different actors that play key roles in science communication.
D3.1 Co-designed virtual Competence Centre requirements specifications
This report documents the co-design-co-development methodological framework to be used under the COALESCE project. A literature review, an internal brainstorm session and periodic mutual learnings meetings were conducted. The main goal was to understand processes, commonalities, lessons learnt and points of improvement, and build upon previously tested and validated methodologies under the COS4CLOUD, ECS and PARCOS EU-H2020 funded projects. Furthermore, aspects such as interoperability and complementarity of services/tools/resources are being considered and explored with ongoing collaborations amongst the COALESCE, ECS, PATTERN, REINFORCING and Skills4EOSC projects.
D4.3 Guidelines for non science journalists in times of crisis
These guidelines are dedicated to generalist journalists who are not specialised in science topics but can be asked, more or less frequently, to deal with news that involve scientific information as well as ethical and social implications of new research methodologies or results. These guidelines aims at helping journalists to understand and tackle complex issues emerging around the communication of science and technology, especially in relation to crises, such as, climate change, soil and water related emergencies, pandemics, and AI and its impact on society.
D2.2 Strategies to address critical challenges to effective science-society relations, including misinformation and trust
This deliverable focuses on strategies to address critical challenges to effective science-society relations, including misinformation and trust. In this deliverable, we provide an overview of approaches present in the field of science communication that nurture open and constructive science-society relationships. Specifically, we zoom in on approaches to navigate dis- and misinformation that support trust between science and society.
Other Publications
Here, you can find any other COALESCE-related documents or relevant articles.
CORDIS Results Pack about scicomm projects
The article Science communication: Empowering citizens in the public discussion of science was published on the CORDIS portal featuring EU Research & Development projects. It is an updated Results Pack on science communication showcasing nine innovative scicomm projects, including COALESCE.
Poster on Envisioning the future European competence centre for science communication
This poster, developed in the initial phase of the COALESCE project, summarises the project’s goals. In order to decrease the distance between science and society, the COALESCE project will develop, consolidate and mainstream generated knowledge and connections on science communication to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
