ESOF 2018 is constructed around the motto “Sharing science: towards new horizons”. Sharing science means bridging barriers between disciplines, communities and countries, making a link between generations, encouraging and welcoming citizen aspirations and initiatives, and being the anchor of a knowledge based society. Sharing science is an active endeavour that needs tools, methods, political will, imagination, curiosity, evaluation and reward. In the country of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it is timely to re-analyse the social contract between science and society that is undergoing profound reshaping, broadening the scope of science-society interactions. New ways of practising science and conveying to the public values of science, research and innovation throughout society are rising. Europe has been and is still being constructed by sharing its diversity in an open-minded way. In difficult periods, sharing is what allows a new take off.

ESOF 2018 Scientific Programme sessions will focus on current and future path-breaking science and its ways of producing and sharing knowledge and innovation. ESOF includes all disciplines. At ESOF, the word “science” is understood as encompassing the arts, social sciences and humanities as well as physical and life sciences, engineering and medicine. Science and technology are now embedded in a myriad of contexts, greatly affecting the everyday life of people across virtually every corner of the globe. Many of the universal challenges of all societies are now pervaded by science and technology. We take into consideration transversal themes such as risk, inequalities, gender and ethics in the proposal for sessions, inviting in particular interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches from the social sciences and the humanities.

Source and further information: ESOF