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Another round of interesting discussions about Trust in Science The Portuguese POIESIS team, led by Professor Marta Entradas and supported by Dr. Inês Sousa and Dr. Feng Yan, has just wrapped up an insightful focus group study to investigate questions of research integrity in universities and public trust in science! [...]

The LSE POIESIS team Dr Bankole Falade, Hannah Bunt and Professor Martin W Bauer have completed another round of focus groups discussions, this time with professional staff at British universities. In February/March 2024, local co-investigators had invited 6 men and 20 women who joined the conversations in Glasgow, Bristol and Loughborough and [...]

The POIESIS Consortium latest meeting confirmed our dedication and high standard approach in fullfilling POIESIS research ambitions. The POIESIS 3rd General Assembly was successfully held on February 22nd and 23 in CIES-Iscte, Lisbon. There were plenty interesting things to discuss such as the implementation and a short summary for each [...]

On the eve of the last General Assembly in Lisbon, on the 21st and 22nd February 2024, the LSE and WiD POIESIS members organised the second POIESIS expert workshop, this time with a focus on dynamics of recovering public trust and reputation after a crisis in different contexts. To discuss why public [...]

We have just published our latest Newsletter! Learn about POIESIS latest news, progress, engagement activities, plus one exciting trip across Europe for our Public Deliberative Workshops and their main findings with just one click.

The Lisbon Team represented the project in the University of Minho Conference Our Lisbon-Portugal team members (Marta Entradas, Inês C. Sousa, and Feng Yan) attended XIII SOPCOM Congress from Jan. 24 to Jan. 26, 2024. The conference took place at University of Minho, in Braga, a city in the north [...]

POIESIS is getting ready for its new excitng engagement activity With the 2nd Expert Workshop scheduled for Lisbon on February 21st, and the Public Deliberation Workshops already conducted, another POIESIS engagement activity is already on the cards. 3 Focus Groups will take place on February in each consortium country (Denmark, [...]

POIESIS has been present at the Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation 2023, the biggest science communication conference in Germany, held this year in Bielefeld. Anne-Sophie Behm-Bahtat (Wissenschaft im Dialog) presented the project in a session with two other research projects with a focus on trust in science, science communication and also the context [...]

The 1st Review Meeting was a huge boost for POIESIS efforts The latest POIESIS Review Meeting was held on 7 November in Paris, a day after the Executive Board meeting. The valuable comments received, on our progress over the first year of the project, will aid us apply the work [...]

The latest Executive Board Meeting of the POIESIS Project was held in Paris last Monday, 6 November 2023. There were some interesting and fruitful discussions about our latest progress and the tasks at hand, especially with engagement activities, such as Focus Groups and Expert Interviews on our doorstep. We are [...]

We are proud to announce that POIESIS was included in an article published in the European Research Executive Agency (REA) website. POIESIS efforts to tackle societal mistrust in science gained further more recognition with its inclusion along with  CDE4Peace,  CROWD4SDG, EL-CSID and our sister projects IANUS and VERITY in an article of [...]

But it's only just the start for the POIESIS engagement activities! The journey of the POIESIS Public Deliberative Workshops came to an end with the submission of their findings. 7 public discussions were conducted in 7 different European countries from May till July. More than 150 people of different social [...]

The European journey of the POIESIS Public Deliberative Workshops ended last Friday (July 7th) in Paris The Workshop was held at the Maison de la recherche of the Sorbonne University. The organization and recording were partly handled by n-clique, a company set up by former students from the Sociology department [...]

42 people of various backgrounds from around the UK participated in the last weeks' POIESIS London Public Deliberative Workshop The London team organised public deliberations in the Marchmont Citizen Centre located in Central London, where no less than 42 participants engaged in discussions about trust in science. The sessions were [...]

The Valencia Public Deliberative Workshop was held on June, 22nd by the CSIC team! The 20 participants spent the day enjoying thorough conversations around the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate change and how those affect trust in science in general. POIESIS consortium members Richard Wooley and Irene Monsonís Payá organised, managed [...]

On the 19th and 20th of June, the London and Berlin team jointly organised the first POIESIS’ expertworkshop on trust in science in Berlin which has been a great success. The workshop had two distinct and at the same time closely interrelated parts: on the one hand,the debate about how [...]

The journey of the POIESIS Public Deliberative Workshops continues! The Berlin public deliberative workshop, called Bürger*innen-Dialog in German, successfully tookplace on a hot Friday afternoon on the 9th of June. Even with a somewhat smaller group ofparticipants (15 in total), we had great and fruitful discussions based on our material [...]

POIESIS coordinator and WP5 Leader Dr. Serge P.J.M. Horbach presented the overall work, the concept, the methodology and the current progress of the POIESIS Project at the 6th Nordic STS Conference, which was held at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture of the University of Oslo. This is [...]

Another fruitful event for POIESIS, this time in Portugal. The 3rd POIESIS Public Deliberative Workshop was also a success. 24 people took part at the event which was held last Saturday afternoon on 3rd of June, at Ιscte. The event was moderated by Dr. Rita Mourão. The expert talk by [...]

The 2nd successful Workshop of POIESIS took place at the Aarhus University. The Danish POIESIS workshop successfully took place, on Friday June 2nd and we had a great experience! The participants were very engaged and we had really interesting, informative and nuanced discussions in all four groups. Importantly, there was [...]