Link to the program on the 26th of January
| Tuesday 27th | ||
| 8:00 - 10:00
Science and democracy in a sustainable world | How does new advances in biotechnology, genomic and nanotechnology impact peasantry and agriculture. How does science relate to the limits to growth, how to deal with negatives externalities (global change, climate crisis, energy needs, control society, increase in inequalities, poverty, social costs,...). How can Science contribute to peace construction ? How can Science contribute to the implementation of fundamental rights ? | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Pause | |
| 10:30 - 12:30
Social responsibility, what cooperation between sciences and society ? | How to favour the scientists to exercise their civic role and responsibilities, not only as an expert in the public debate ?
Specific role of researchers and scientists in society : necessity and limits to democratic decisions in science, freedom of research and responsibility. How to associate the communities, rural and/or urban, in particular poorest, with the choice, the conception and with the realization of the research which relate to them ? How to allow a dialogue between the society and the researchers on the consequences of research ? How allow the rise of the secularization of the State and education. | |
| 12:30 - 14:00
Round table : First Step | A short conclusion.
To facilitate the dispatching of the scientists in the workshops of the WSF. A very short presentation of the workshops. |