Recommendations for "Societal Integration and Public Engagement in Science"

6. Prioritize Infrastructure for Effective Science-society Interaction

Actions for RPOs & Institutional Support officers

Implement and/or maintain guidelines and provide capacity for securing meaningful and effective engagement
Ensure organisational capacity to support researchers that employ public engagement and work to ensure that public engagement lives up to the highest standards of research integrity and ethics
Stimulate the development of new and novel forms of public engagement. Ensure that lessons learned are kept alive in and between organisations
Create designated infrastructure for including and engaging society and ensure administrative support for engagement activities. These should be able to serve as collaborative spaces as well as avenues of dissemination, deliberation, and co-creation
Facilitate events, courses, and resources that provide opportunities for broad societal access to science and provide venues for lifelong learning and participatory capacities
Create structures and networks that assist researchers and institutional communicators in connecting to each other and local stakeholders

Prioritize and incentivise public engagement research and public engagement activities in and outside research institutions
Ensure support for implementing and developing public engagement, to continually develop practice and ensure that engagement does not become a mere biproduct
Work to establish and maintain networks in and across institutions to facilitate the development, sharing, and maintenance of expertise on engagement
Provide resources for implementing public engagement initiatives and infrastructure through cross-contextual cooperation and learning
Ensure that lessons learned are channelled between national and institutional contexts in networks and research collaboration