Developing as a Boundary Spanner
Boundary spanning’ plays a valuable role in the current EU legislative landscape: the Digital market strategy and agenda with the GDPR, Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act and AI Act, or the EU Green Deal with the recently first Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act. The aim is to reconcile evidence-based approaches with regulatory perspectives on the policy side (precautionary, do no harm).
Open Science and Science Diplomacy
My role as a ‘boundary spanner’ involves bridging the different stakeholders for Open Science to become the norm, and this indeed involves a clear focus on Science in Diplomacy. Busting OA myths and educating policymakers on the benefits and significance of Open access is important. This surely involves a collaborative effort between the public, private and governmental sectors.
Relevance of Science Diplomacy in the Caribbean
The power of Science Diplomacy at work – a collaborative mechanism in which CAS demonstrated ‘science in diplomacy’, through its provision of technical guidance and successfully informed foreign policy objectives with science. UNESCO’s Cluster Office for the Caribbean demonstrated ‘diplomacy for science’, facilitating international science cooperation”
Science Education in Colombian Diplomacy
We want Science Diplomacy as a structural pillar of Colombian foreign policy, and we want to put science at the core of the policymaking and negotiation processes, and thus the recent development of a national strategy is fundamental for building state policy in Science Diplomacy.
Science Diplomacy for Open Science
This question carries the three dimensions of Science Diplomacy. First, introducing this new element within the NCP system would have a very important impact on ‘science in diplomacy’. Especially with the advent of the UNESCO Open Science recommendation, such a measure would allow the strengthening of the involvement of the scientific community in developing national policies in response to these recommendations.
Science Diplomacy’s Potential for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and the Prevention of Illicit Trade
Cultural heritage safeguarding is a common issue that is gaining increasing attention in foreign policy agendas. It has become a priority for the European Union, and the European External Action Service recently included it in the EU foreign policy toolbox
Science Diplomacy in Geneva and Switzerland
Switzerland, as a Host-State of international organizations, supports a number of platforms, which offer a neutral space for collective brainstorming and exchanges outside of formal settings, where stakeholders explore and test new ideas, share good practices, or discuss emerging issues. There are currently seventeen platforms of various sizes, covering issues ranging from human rights to the environment.
A perspective from Jordan
I find it easier and more logical for a scientist to learn the world of diplomacy, which already exists, acquiring the needed skills to bring science into the spot-light, rather than a diplomat doing it the other way around.
An enormous learning experience
I was introduced to Science Diplomacy through the National Science Policy Network (NSPN) and realized that my scientific expertise could be used in several other ways, such as to frame or inform the policymaking process or to advise diplomatic decisions.
Boundary spanning successes and challenges
The techniques I learned during the course helped me to use scientific facts in negotiation. Despite the fact that in traditional societies even scientific facts are not accepted science can still help to open the conversation.
