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SYNENERGENE Calls for Proposals/Rathenau Instituut
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<h2>Take your iGEM Project to the next level!</h2> | <h2>Take your iGEM Project to the next level!</h2> | ||
| - | <h4>Rathenau Instituut</h4> | + | <h4>Partner: Rathenau Instituut</h4> |
| + | <h4>Due date: May 01, 2014</h4> | ||
| + | <h4>Questions: contact Virgil Rerimassie, v.rerimassie AT rathenau.nl</h4> | ||
| - | <p> | + | <p><em>Is your iGEM team looking for an exciting human practices challenge? Would you like to take the potential of your project to the next level by exploring it with various stakeholders? And would you like to get support and funding throughout this entire process? If your answer is "yes" your team just might be an excellent candidate for our SYNENERGENE call.</em></p> |
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| + | <h3>Introduction</h3> | ||
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| + | <p>The Rathenau Instituut is partner of SYNENERGENE, a four-year collaborative project funded by the European Commission, aimed at fostering Responsible Research and Innovation in synthetic biology (SynBio). In order to examine how SynBio can be optimally embedded in society, the Rathenau Instituut and its SYNENERGENE partners aim to conduct real-time technology assessments of potential SynBio applications. To this end, we seek collaboration with iGEM teams and focus on promising ideas for SynBio applications as developed in iGEM projects. Teams can dedicate their policy and practices (formerly: human practices) work to a process of real-time technology assessment and will be supported by SYNENERGENE partners throughout the process. Teams can apply for support and funding by submitting to us proposals.</p> | ||
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| + | <h3>Rewards and support</h3> | ||
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| + | <p>Awarded teams will receive €5.000 each and be assisted in their work by SYNENERGENE partners, providing them an excellent way to work on the policy and practices dimension of their project through real-time technology assessment and to enhance the overall quality of their project.</p> | ||
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| + | <h3>Requirements</h3> | ||
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| + | <p>Selected iGEM teams will have to contribute in their Policy & Practices work to a process of real-time technology assessment by elaborating two different kinds of future scenarios relating to SynBio applications envisaged by the teams: | ||
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| + | <li><strong>Application scenarios</strong> | ||
| + | <p>Application scenarios offer detailed and realistic descriptions of how SynBio ideas can lead to actual applications in society, including: design criteria for the products proposed, target producers and users of the products, the needs and costs involved, legal issues of patenting, regulatory requirements, potential safety, social and ethical implications, and available or conceivable alternatives.</p></li> | ||
| + | <li><strong>Techno-moral scenarios</strong> | ||
| + | <p>A techno-moral scenario is a tool to stimulate imagination, reflection and debate about ways in which SynBio applications may transform our society through wider impacts, including ethical, legal and social issues.</p></li> | ||
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| + | <p>SYNENERGENE partners will take up the scenarios as a starting point for an interactive process of technology assessment, involving a variety of stakeholders and iGEM team members in workshop settings with the aim to develop socially robust agendas for SynBio innovation. Scenarios will also be used by SYNENERGENE partners as a tool in organizing public debates on SynBio futures. For more information about the kind of scenarios that selected iGEM teams will have to deliver, click here*.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 17:05, 3 April 2014
Take your iGEM Project to the next level!
Partner: Rathenau Instituut
Due date: May 01, 2014
Questions: contact Virgil Rerimassie, v.rerimassie AT rathenau.nl
Is your iGEM team looking for an exciting human practices challenge? Would you like to take the potential of your project to the next level by exploring it with various stakeholders? And would you like to get support and funding throughout this entire process? If your answer is "yes" your team just might be an excellent candidate for our SYNENERGENE call.
Introduction
The Rathenau Instituut is partner of SYNENERGENE, a four-year collaborative project funded by the European Commission, aimed at fostering Responsible Research and Innovation in synthetic biology (SynBio). In order to examine how SynBio can be optimally embedded in society, the Rathenau Instituut and its SYNENERGENE partners aim to conduct real-time technology assessments of potential SynBio applications. To this end, we seek collaboration with iGEM teams and focus on promising ideas for SynBio applications as developed in iGEM projects. Teams can dedicate their policy and practices (formerly: human practices) work to a process of real-time technology assessment and will be supported by SYNENERGENE partners throughout the process. Teams can apply for support and funding by submitting to us proposals.
Rewards and support
Awarded teams will receive €5.000 each and be assisted in their work by SYNENERGENE partners, providing them an excellent way to work on the policy and practices dimension of their project through real-time technology assessment and to enhance the overall quality of their project.
Requirements
Selected iGEM teams will have to contribute in their Policy & Practices work to a process of real-time technology assessment by elaborating two different kinds of future scenarios relating to SynBio applications envisaged by the teams:
- Application scenarios
Application scenarios offer detailed and realistic descriptions of how SynBio ideas can lead to actual applications in society, including: design criteria for the products proposed, target producers and users of the products, the needs and costs involved, legal issues of patenting, regulatory requirements, potential safety, social and ethical implications, and available or conceivable alternatives.
- Techno-moral scenarios
A techno-moral scenario is a tool to stimulate imagination, reflection and debate about ways in which SynBio applications may transform our society through wider impacts, including ethical, legal and social issues.
SYNENERGENE partners will take up the scenarios as a starting point for an interactive process of technology assessment, involving a variety of stakeholders and iGEM team members in workshop settings with the aim to develop socially robust agendas for SynBio innovation. Scenarios will also be used by SYNENERGENE partners as a tool in organizing public debates on SynBio futures. For more information about the kind of scenarios that selected iGEM teams will have to deliver, click here*.
