The IANUS | POIESIS | VERITY Final Conference was held with great success on May 13th and 14th at Talk C.E.C., Brussels.
The Conference started with Michael Arentoft, Head of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Unit of the European Commission giving the keynote speech "Fostering Trust In Science?", while in the second session "Building bridges, strengthening trust" participants had a welcome and a brief introduction to the event by EC Officers Georgios Papanagnou and Wainer Lusoli, along with the sister project co-ordinators.
Sister projects were on the spotlight for the "Setting the scene: Trust in Science in and beyond the sister projects" where Tine Ravn of POIESIS, Hub Zwart of IANUS, and Agata Gurzawska of VERITY presented their projects' research and main findings taking valuable feedback from Former European Commission Official and Chairman of the MLE Science for Policy Rene Von Schomberg and many other important external speakers.
The "Advancing Policy, Implementing Recommendations: IANUS, POIESIS, and VERITY’s three-year journey panel session featuring Juliana Chaves Chaparro (UNESCO), Anastasia Deligkiaouri (JRC), Jim Dratwa (EC), Suzanne Dumouchel (EOSC/OPERAS), Shaofeng Hu (UNESCO), Georgios Papanagnou (EC), and Maciej Woszczyk (NCBR/INSPIRING ERA) was moderated by the events' organiser Steffi Friedrichs (AcumenIST) was extremely helpful and fruitful in exploring how policy frameworks can meaningfully support and strengthen trust in science. A panel with such experience could only provide deep insights into how policy frameworks can meaningfully support and strengthen trust in science.
The last but not least session of Day 1, the World Café was presented by Eleni Spyrakou of POIESIS and Kalypso Iordanou of IANUS and was smoothly moderated by Lisa Häberlein of EUREC and VERITY. Gabor Szüdi and Evren Yalaz from VERITY, Hendrik Berghäuser and Amalia Kallergi from IANUS, Simon Fuglasang and Richard Woolley from POIESIS facilitated the discussions in the 6 tables of the World Café, which provided many interesting uptakes and thorough discussions around Trust In Science, impact and sustainability.
The last concluding session on Day 2 (May 14th) was moderated by Hendrik Berghäuser of IANUS. The World Café tables rapporteurs shared their insights and brief summaries of yesterday's discussions, while the Conference closed with Miriam Barton presenting the wonderful graphic designs which summarised the fruitful discussions of the Conference and the sisters projects recommendations for Strengthening Trust In Science in Europe.
