We need to talk about our partnership: lessons from the EVALUATE project How to evaluate strategic partnerships? International officers of six universities asked this simple yet challenging question. CWTS and STIS participated and decided to co-create with the international officers. The result is an evaluation framework that looks unlike anything they had imagined. Leonie van Drooge, Carole de Bordes, Niki Vermeulen and Mayline Strouk • November 29, 2022
Why are diversity and inclusion important for Global Science? CWTS is starting a new UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science. In this blog post we outline why this topic matters and how our team aims to contribute to UNESCO's agenda of making science a positive force for development. Ismael Rafols, Ingeborg Meijer and Rodrigo Costas • November 10, 2022 • 1 comment
Reflections on guest editing a Frontiers journal In this blogpost, the authors critically discuss their experience as guest editors for a Frontiers journal. They aim to foster open scholarly debate about Frontiers publishing practices, triggered by Frontiers hindering such debate on their own pages. Serge Horbach, Michael Ochsner and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner • October 31, 2022 • 4 comments
Q&A about Wiley's decision to open its abstracts In this post Ludo Waltman and Bianca Kramer reflect on today’s announcement that Wiley is joining the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and is going to make abstracts openly available through Crossref. Ludo Waltman and Bianca Kramer • October 25, 2022
A monitoring and evaluation framework for responsibility in R&I In this blogpost (and the next), the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation framework for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the EU is told through our learnings in the H2020-funded project SUPER MoRRI over time. Ingeborg Meijer • October 20, 2022
Dreaming at CWTS What happens when you bring together the CWTS team and let them dream into the blue? Five visionary project ideas! From a New Society-Science Collaboration to the Participatory Activists Network or the enigmatic GRRASS: nothing was unthinkable. Ed Noyons and Ludo Waltman • October 18, 2022
Cocreating science that society needs: introducing the EXPLORE approach How can local knowledge production help regions to create more sustainable and inclusive societies? This post will delve deeper in how we combined the core concepts of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and smart specialisation and how this developed into the EXPLORE methodology. Ingeborg Meijer, Tim Willemse, Sonia Mena Jara, Anestis Amanatidis, Tjitske Holtrop and Gaston Heimeriks • October 05, 2022
University technology transfer: 'it's not a business, but run it like a business‘ Technology transfer from universities can be intricate. The roles – and perceptions – of researchers, universities, and companies alike need to be considered on the way from ideas and inventions to innovation and investments. But in the end, it may just be a question of “Einstein or Columbus?” Ivo de Nooijer • September 28, 2022
CHERRIES and RIPEET: CWTS traveling the Science - Society interface This blogpost presents how CWTS got involved in two H2020-funded projects, CHERRIES and RIPEET, what they are about (territorial RRI), what we have learned from it, and what our contribution was (and still is) to developing interactions between science and society. Ingeborg Meijer, Sonia Mena Jara, Anestis Amanatidis, Tim Willemse and Gaston Heimeriks • September 22, 2022
