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S4D4C EUROPEAN SCIENCE DIPLOMACY ONLINE COURSE

1. How to Get Started?

1.1 User Manual- Introduction to the Module

1.1.1 Learning Objectives

1.2 Structure of the Course

1.2.1 What modules are available and what do they cover?

1.2.2 In what order should you take the course?

1.2.3 How can you navigate between modules, lessons and topics?

1.2.4 How do you see the progress?

1.2.5 How can you complete the modules, lessons and topics?

1.2.6 Is there a way to take the course offline?

1.2.7 How can you interact with your fellow course students, the European Science Diplomacy Community and the S4D4C team?

1.2.8 How do you receive the S4D4C certificate?

1.2.9 Licensing of the course

2. What Is Science Diplomacy?

2.1 Science Diplomacy – Introduction to the Module

2.1.1 Learning Objectives and Experts’ Preliminary Insights

2.2 The Worlds of Science and Diplomacy

2.2.1 How Does Science Work? An Overview

2.2.2 The System of Diplomacy and International Relations

2.3 Science Diplomacy in the World Today

2.3.1 What Do We Mean by Science Diplomacy?

2.3.2 The Royal Society and AAAS’s Conceptual Framework

2.3.3 The Strategic Purposes Approach

2.3.4 The Pragmatic Approach

2.3.5 The Madrid Declaration on Science Diplomacy

2.3.6 Science Diplomacy for Addressing Global Challenges: Stoppers, Warnings and Drivers

2.3.7 A Critical Reflection on the Science Diplomacy Discourse

2.3.8 Can Science Diplomacy Tackle Societal Challenges?

2.4 What Kind of Science Diplomats Are There?

2.4.1 Diplomats

2.4.2 Chief Science Advisers

2.4.3 Science Counsellors, Attachés, Advisers, and Envoys in Embassies

2.4.4 The Activist Researcher – The Organic Science Diplomat

2.4.5 Other Profiles

2.5 Question Time

2.5.1 Brainstorming Questions

Let’s See How Much You’ve Learnt – Quiz Time: What Is Science Diplomacy?

3. Who Are the Science Diplomacy Stakeholders?

3.1 Stakeholders – Introduction to the Module

3.1.1 Learning Objectives and Experts’ Preliminary Insights

3.1.2 The S4D4C Approach to Science Diplomacy: a Multi-Stakeholder Endeavour

3.1.3 Science Diplomacy Stakeholders. Our Proposal

3.2 Types of Science Diplomacy Stakeholders

3.2.1 Governmental Stakeholders

3.2.2 Intergovernmental and Supranational Stakeholders

3.2.3 Research Stakeholders

3.2.4 Academic Stakeholders

3.2.5 Private Sector Stakeholders

3.2.6 Civil Society Stakeholders

3.3 Types of Science Diplomacy Networks

3.3.1 Sub-national Networks

3.3.2 National Networks

3.3.3 Sub-global Networks

3.3.4 Global Networks

3.4 Question Time

3.4.1 Brainstorming Questions

Let’s See How Much You’ve Learnt – Quiz Time: Stakeholders

4. How Does the EU Practice Science Diplomacy?

4.1 The EU and Science Diplomacy – Introduction to the Module

4.1.1 Learning Objectives and Experts’ Preliminary Insights

4.2 The European Union

4.2.1 The History of the European Union: a Cooperation/Integration Process

4.2.2 The European Union Institutional Framework I

4.2.3 The European Union Institutional Framework II

4.2.4 Euroscepticism on the Rise

4.2.5 The European Green Deal

4.2.6 Recovery Plan for Europe after COVID-19

4.2.7 The Global Gateway

4.3 The European Science and Innovation System

4.3.1 Framework Programmes and the European Research Area

4.3.2 European Scientific and Innovation Organisations

4.3.3 European Research Infrastructures

4.3.4 European Scientific Collaborations with the World

4.3.5 Freedom of Scientific Research

4.4 EU Science Diplomacy

4.4.1 The EU Science Diplomacy Ecosystem I: EU Level

4.4.2 The EU Science Diplomacy Ecosystem II: Member States Level

4.4.3 The EU Science Diplomacy Vision

4.4.4 From Vision to Implementation: the EU Science Diplomacy State-of-the-Art

4.4.5 First Research Insights into EU Science Diplomacy

4.4.6 The EU Science Diplomacy Cluster

4.4.7 The European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance

4.5 Question Time

4.5.1 Brainstorming Questions

Let’s See How Much You Have Learnt! Quiz Time – The EU and Science Diplomacy

5. What Are the National, Regional and Thematic Approaches of Science Diplomacy?

5.1 Approaches to Science Diplomacy – Introduction to the Module

5.1.1 Learning objectives and preliminary experts’ insights

5.1.2 Structure and content of the module

5.2 Regional and National Science Diplomacy Strategies

5.2.1 Differences and similarities in national and regional approaches

5.3 Science Diplomacy Strategies for Global Challenges

5.3.1 Food and Nutrition Security

5.3.5 COVID-19 Crisis

5.4 How to Design a Science Diplomacy Approach

5.4.1 Procedural principles

5.4.2 Infrastructural principles

5.5 Question Time

5.5.1 Brainstorming Questions

Let’s See How Much You’ve Learnt – Quiz Time: National, Regional, and Thematic Science Diplomacy Approaches

6. What Set of Skills Do I Need to Be a Good Science Diplomat?

6.1 Skills – Introduction to the Module

6.1.1 Learning Objectives and Preliminary Experts’ Insights

6.1.2 Challenges in Science Diplomacy Training

6.2 Skills in the literature

6.2.1 Skills for Working at the Science-Policy Interface

6.2.2 Skills for Science Advice in Foreign Policy

6.2.3 Science Advisers to Foreign Ministries

6.3 The Science Diplomat’s Toolbox

6.3.1 Negotiation Skills

6.3.2 Role-play Simulations

6.3.3 Languages and Intercultural Communication

6.4 Science Diplomacy Curriculum and Training materials

6.6 Question Time

6.6.1 Brainstorming questions

Let’s see how much you’ve learned – Quiz Time: What set of skills do you need to be a good science diplomat?

7. Hands On! Case Studies

7.1 Case Studies – Introduction to the Module

7.1.1 Learning Objectives and Experts’ Preliminary Insights

7.1.2 Rationale for S4D4C Case Studies

7.1.3 Transversal Analysis of S4D4C Case Studies

7.1.4 Historical Case Studies from InsSciDE

7.2 Infectious Diseases

7.2.1 The Science Diplomacy Dimension

7.2.2 Research Methodology

7.2.3 Main Findings

7.2.4 Main Recommendations

7.3 Food Security in EU-Africa

7.3.1 The Science Diplomacy Dimension

7.3.2 Research Methodology

7.3.3 Main Findings

7.3.4 Main Recommendations

7.4 Open Science

7.4.1 The Science Diplomacy Dimension

7.4.2 Research Methodology

7.4.3 Main Findings

7.4.4 Main Recommendations

7.5.1 The Science Diplomacy Dimension

7.5.2 Research Methodology

7.5.3 Main Findings

7.5.4 Main Recommendations

7.6 Designing a European Health Diplomacy

7.6.1 The Science Diplomacy Dimension

7.6.2 Research Methodology

7.6.3 Main Findings

7.6.4 Main Recommendations

7.7 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

7.7.1 The Science Diplomacy Dimension

7.7.2 Research Methodology

7.7.3 Main Findings

7.7.4 Main Recommendations

7.8 Question Time

7.8.1 Brainstorming Questions

Let’s see how much you’ve learnt – Quiz Time: Case Studies

8. How Can You Dive Deeper into Science Diplomacy?

8.1 Introductory Remarks

8.2 Science Diplomacy: Definitions and Conceptualizations

8.3 National and Regional Approaches to Science Diplomacy

8.4 Science Diplomacy: Skills and Stakeholders

8.5 Science Diplomacy at its best

Satisfaction Survey

Satisfaction Survey

Section A: Demographics

Section B: Questions regarding the course

Let’s See How Much You’ve Learnt – Quiz Time: Stakeholders

S4D4C EUROPEAN SCIENCE DIPLOMACY ONLINE COURSE
3.4 Question Time
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Question 1 of 10

1. Question

1. Science diplomacy stakeholders operate at the sub-national, national, sub-global, and global level. Depending on their nature, they could be grouped as…

a. Governmental, industrial, research, political, and non-for-profit
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b. Governmental stakeholders, Intergovernmental and supranational institutions, researchers and academia, civil society and private sector
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c. Co-funded, multi-stakeholder, regional and international
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d. Governmental, global city-driven, regional and lobby-driven.
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2. Question

2. FMSTAN is a network…

a. Formed by science attachés of the different embassies based in London willing to share information and identify common goals for collaboration
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b. Funded by the European Commission and appointed to be the science advice mechanism to the External Action Service
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c. Of science advisors with experience within countries’ Foreign Ministries, operating under the auspices of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA)
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d. Of researchers lobbying for circular economy to be a flagship of the next research and development framework of the European Commission, Horizon Europe
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3. Question

3. Science diplomacy stakeholders…

a. Make up a diverse ecosystem that still has room for improvement in terms of coordination, training and securing funding, among others.
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b. Can be consulted in the United Nations database “science diplomacy stakeholders worldwide”
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c. Are always governmental officials and diplomats that interact only at the government-government level
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d. Have the same training and education background
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4. Question

4. Regarding national science diplomacy strategies…

a. All member states in the European Union have their own science diplomacy strategies
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b. They are shaped and created acknowledging each national landscape, country specific goals and approaches.
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c. They are all funded by the United Nations through UNESCO
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d. Are always led by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the country
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5. Question

5. Researchers can be involved in science diplomacy pursuing different interests. From the list below, select the one that is NOT one of their interests…

a. Establishing cross-border scientific collaborations and exploring new research funding opportunities
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b. Lobbying for certain scientific issues to permeate into public policy affairs and raising awareness of the importance of evidence-informed policy making
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c. Serving as science advisers to Ministers for Foreign Affairs in order to promote misunderstandings, mistrust, and fake news among nations
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d. Raising the public value of science and making the case for science to be a key element to achieve national/regional/global goals
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6. Question

6. The UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN)…

a. has three offices, in Paris, Washington DC, and Tokyo
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b. is a diplomatic network operating in London and gathering scientific attachés of all the countries with a diplomatic representation in the UK
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c. is a multi-stakeholder network in which industry, academia, civil society organisations, and the UK Government work altogether in developing specific training for British diplomats
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d. is a network of STI attachés (locally hired officers) who are embedded in British embassies and consulates abroad, working alongside with career diplomats
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7. Question

7. The Science Diplomats Club of Washington DC…

a. brings together scientific attachés from European Members States in the US with the aim of better coordinating its science diplomacy strategies in the US
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b. is a network of US scientists aiming at raising awareness of the importance of US diplomacy to be better informed by scientific evidence
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c. is a social club in Washington DC to provide an informal meeting place and networking channel for all science diplomats from diplomatic missions
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d. is the only current scientific attachés circle in the world
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8. Question

8. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

a. is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change
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b. is a joint effort of international NGOs to raise awareness of the climate change emergency
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c. is an international knowledge exchange mechanism for local, regional and national policy makers working on climate change
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d. is a global fund for international research projects on climate change
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9. Question

9. The German Academic International Network (GAIN)…

a. is the German Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) ex-alumni working together to promote bigger budget for MSCA actions
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b. is the network of German scientists and researchers of all disciplines, working at leading research institutes worldwide
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c. is a German fund to foster academic exchange between Germany and the UK
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d. is a fund to attract German researchers to come back to Germany and continue their research career in German universities and research centres
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10. Swissnex is…

a. a network of Swiss researchers working in the US that aims at building bridges among the US and Switzerland
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b. a joint effort of the Swiss diplomatic body and the Swiss universities to better train Swiss diplomats in scientific matters
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c. a public-private partnership to promote international cooperation in science, technology, and innovation of Switzerland
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d. the only diplomatic network with a focus on science and technology in Europe
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