Tackling societal
mistrust
in science

Probing the impact of integrity and integration on societal trust in science

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Explore Our Recommendations

The nine final recommendations of POIESIS aim to provide guidance on sustaining current initiatives that bolster trust and trustworthiness, while also addressing existing challenges and further strengthening the science-society relationship. All recommendations are accompanied by targeted actions for key stakeholders.

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Our Methodology: The 3i4t model

In exploring how integrity and integration shape trust, POIESIS is guided by the Integrity, Integration, and Institutions for Trust (3i4t) model. The model assumes that institutions are key to facilitating both integrity and integration, and that the translation of these principles into the societal conversation on science is contingent on the quality of the chains of mediation which connect science and society

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Research Ambitions and Methodology

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Poiesis Recommendations

Basic Objectives

Provide recommendations for tackling societal mistrust in science, research and innovation

for policy makers, research funding and performing organisations, higher education institutions and other R&I actors.

Provide recommendations to research performing and funding organisations,

for strengthening the co-creation of research and innovation contents by society, and for the spreading of good practices and evidence of their effects.

Communicate and Disseminate,

by using innovative means the findings and messages of our research Implement innovative means ofcience, research and innovation; for policy makers, research funding and performing organisations, higher education institutions and other R&I actors.

Key Concepts

The movement to make scientific research and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society.

Conducting research in such a way that allows others to have confidence and trust in the methods and the findings of the research.

Increased inclusion of citizens and societal stakeholders throughout the different phases of research and innovation cycles.

Key actors and core processes involved in the pursuit of delivering robust and relevant research results in the interests of both science and society.

Following regulations, complying with codes of conduct and taking professional, legal and ethical responsibility.

Research practices that do not constitute “research misconduct”, i.e. falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism, but fail to align with the principles of scientific integrity.