The Eu-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference (ECC) “Sustainability in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy: between complexity and uncertainty” will take place in Rome on 6-7-8 March 2024, organised by the CNR-IRCrES - Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of the National Research Council of Italy.
Eu-SPRI ECC 2024 FINAL PROGRAMME
The Conference will focus on the role of science, technology, and innovation policies in promoting long-term sustainable development and equitable growth. Furthermore, the Conference wants to dig deeper into how STI research can help with the policy sustainability mission, looking for any existing or potential links between STI policy and long-term goals.
Information on Conference Proceedings
Topics of the Conference
- Organizational Perspective in SDGs;
- Science-Policy interface for achieving the SDGs;
- STI scenarios under complexity and uncertainty;
- Science and technology responses for green recovery;
- Regional systems of innovation;
- Knowledge and innovation networks.
Target of the Conference
Contributions from fields as sociology, economics, statistics, political sciences, public policy and innovation studies are expected. Nonetheless, participants from other fields, as Natural Sciences, are welcome considering the interest in the topic proposed.
The Conference aims at involving primarily early career researchers and PhD students working in the fields of Research Policy and Innovation studies. Criteria for eligibility are:
- doctoral students in the last year of their programme having research work on the themes of the conference;
- post-doctoral researchers;
- research assistants having obtained the PhD within 5 years, carrying out research on the themes proposed.
Selection will be based upon presentation of an extended abstract (500-1000 words) and the CV which should indicate PhD dissertation topic and, for research assistants and post-doctoral researchers, main research projects.