Author: Leonidas Ananiadis

POIESIS was present at the 10th Congress on the Social Communication of Science (CCSC2025), which took place in Palma de Mallorca from October 28 to 30, 2025, at the Auditorium Palma de Mallorca.

Marta Entradas, leader of POIESIS WP2, participated along with POIESIS Advisory Board member Mike S. Schäfer, Celia Diaz Catalan, and Pampa Garcia Molina in a roundtable about trust in science, sharing precious insights from the POIESIS key findings and results, which derived from large scale research actions throughout Europe.

Held under the theme “Creative Communication of Science”, the Congress brought together professionals in communication, outreach, journalism, and science from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Its main goal was to foster debate on issues related to scientific culture and to encourage collective reflection among participants, aiming to strengthen and update strategies, directions, actors, and objectives in the social communication of science.

The thematic lines for the 2025 edition included trust in science, risk communication, advertising with a critical perspective, technology, fiction, entertainment, and art.

The focus on creativity, as highlighted in the Congress theme, sought to enhance the quality of scientific communication, outreach, and journalism, as well as to promote learning and inspire scientific vocations. Creativity was not regarded merely as an added value, but as a key element contributing to a closer relationship between science and society, in a world that continues to be shaped by scientific and technological progress.

We are delighted to announce that we have published our last Newsletter containing all the POIESIS Policy Recommendations for tackling societal mistrust in science, as well as direct access to the action points proposed for each one of them, the research participatory activities that lead to those recommendations, and the POIESIS latest news.

You can easily download it just by clicking here!

POIESIS is proud to contribute to the collective discussion on how to enhance (and preserve) the public’s Trust in Science!!

Last Wednesday morning, at the ENRIO 2025 Congress in Ljubljana, two distinguished members of our research team, Martin W. Bauer and Michel Dubois, featured on the Congress Keynote Session about Trust in Science presenting the results the POIESIS secondary data analysis and participatory research actions (7 countries, 22 focus groups, 7 round tables, hundreds of participants) respectively!

As it was the case with the project’s presentation on Mondays’ Satellite Event, we are very happy to see POIESIS’ research outputs being well received and contribute to the effort of tackling societal mistrust in Science in these challenging times.

Last week marked another great achievement for POIESIS, as it was represented by Tine Ravn on the ENRIO 2025 Congress Satellite Event in Ljubljana, examining how European funded projects promote research integrity policy and practice in the European Research Area. The event was co-organised with our sister projects VERITY and IANUS, along with RE4GREEN, PREPARED, CHANGER and The Embassy of Good Science!

Our project co-ordinator presented the key findings of our 3-year research journey which consisted of 7 types of engagement events with 7 types of stakeholders and many hundreds of participants throughout Europe, and our final recommendations for tackling societal mistrust in Science!

POIESIS poster featuring our research findings was also very well received and gained much attention during the poster exhibition!!

The POIESIS Newsletter V is here! Read our latest news including our Final Conference with our sister projects IANUS and VERITY, our Scenario Workshop, and the POIESIS team noteable presence at the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference in Aberdeen, with a simple click.

The third and final POIESIS expert workshop focusing on trust in science took place in Paris on 23 and 24 June 2025. Organised collaboratively by the POIESIS teams from Berlin, London, and Paris, the event offered participants a great occasion for exchange and connection.

This concluding workshop, held within Work Package 1 (WP1) of the POIESIS project, brought together 20 survey experts on trust in science, representing diverse countries across Europe and beyond. Among the participants were many familiar faces from the first POIESIS expert workshop held in Berlin two years ago, but we also had new participants around the table, adding even more surveys to the discussion.

The agenda opened with an afternoon of presentations showcasing 14 different national and international surveys. These contributions provided a broad and diverse overview of how trust surveys approach, design, and interpret questions around trust in science today.

The second day offered space for more in-depth exchange. Three short inputs and following discussions allowed participants to tackle shared challenges — from how survey items are formulated, over methodological changes and what they imply, to the effects of disinformation on social media on public trust in science.

Throughout both days, participants shared advice, discussed experiences, and deepened connections within this expert community working on trust-related surveys. By continuing the groundwork started at the first meeting in Berlin, this event marks an important step towards building a European network dedicated to surveys on trust in science.

We want to thank all participants for their time, valuable input and the engaged discussions! We look forward to continuing this important exchange!

We support the European Research Area aimed at creating a single, borderless market for research, innovation and technology in the EU.

The year 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the European Research Area (ERA) – a milestone in building a unified, borderless space for research, innovation, and technology across the EU.

As part of this celebration, POIESIS is pleased to highlight the ERA Platform, launched in 2024. This platform serves as a central hub for information on the ERA Policy Agenda, EU-wide initiatives, and the ERA monitoring mechanism. It also offers access to key documents and resources supporting collaboration among researchers, innovators, policymakers, and citizens.

We encourage our visitors to explore the ERA Platform and learn more about the efforts driving research excellence in Europe. Click here to navigate to the ERA Platform

Last week in Aberdeen, POIESIS was strongly represented at the Public Communication of Science and Technology conference (PCST2025). Project members presented and discussed how research integrity and public engagement matters for public trust in science, and the crucial role of science communication for bridging science and society.

Tine Ravn joined sister projects VERITY and IANUS to explore the role of science communication in fostering trust in science, highlighting that while trust in science is high science communication plays a crucial role in maintaining this trusting relationship.

Marta Entradas presented findings on integrity in science and its impact on public trust, arguing that transparency is key to fostering public trust and that the channels through which science communication is received are highly consequential for the perceived trustworthiness.

Anne-Sophie Behm-Bahtat shared insights into citizens’ views on participation across Europe, revealing misalignments between public and expert perceptions of science engagement and demonstrating how participation is not perceived as universally positive.

Finally,Simon Fuglsang examined whether institutional commitment to good scientific practice strengthens trust in science, finding that while university commitments do matter for trustworthiness, the finer details of such commitments are less impactful.