1. Developing new modes of collaboration between NGOs, the public and the academic sector Kateřina Ptáčková Tereza Stöckelová

2. context of the project from the point of view of Green Circle increasing impact of the science and research on the quality of everyday life and the shape of the society public participation on the research process – science and research priorities setting, defining the research question, data collecting civic sector as a knowledge and expertise resource accessibility of the research outcomes, practical problems solutions, the resource of arguments, advocacy and lobbying in sector policy

3. context of the project from the point of view of the science policy in flux public accoutability/ societal usefulness third role of the university innovation sectoral mobility FROM ECONOMIZATION TO DEMOCRATIZATION

4. collaborations under way NGOs using expertise and collaborating with academic researchers collaborative efforts people from NGOs participating in university courses and tutoring students localization of knowledge interdisciplinarity “If we took outcomes of scientific research and simply transfer them to practice, we would offer meshwork instead of compact cloths. Something very leaky. Thanks to communication with people having local knowledge this can be supplemented, transform, darned.” (conservation biology)

5. Ecological institute Veronica applied research activities (participative urban planning, sustainable development) education, mutual cooperation with students (educational programmes, student participation in research) cross-sectoral cooperation DAPHNE - Institute of applied ecology set up by students applied research activities applying ecological and scientific techniques to restore degraded ecosystems influencing the development of policy and legislation, increasing knowledge promoting values and encouraging public participation encouraging co-operation, co-operation with volunteers by research data collecting

6. collaborations under way, but… mostly on individual (not institutional) basis little support from universities (NGOs and universities may even be competitors in some contexts for the same projects/funding) different timing of university and NGO worlds no possibilities for public participation in formulation of strategic documents increasing pressure from the State on researchers to deliver output in narrowly defined genres of publication (purely academic publications; industry-related outputs) still a strong feeling between researchers that collaboration with NGOs could compromise their objectivity

7. critical points of change support for collaboration and participatory research (science shops etc.) and for access of NGOs to research results (vouchers on innovations for NGOs; budgets for collaborative research etc.) public participation in debates on and formulations of research priorities development of alternative criteria of research quality and impact assessment as a basis for funding academic institutions, project evaluation and academic careers (both at the level of national science policy and academic institutions) changes in the self-understanding of academics towards social embeddedness of research