The first five years of the 2020s have seen policymakers wrestling with major challenges, including the global pandemic, international military conflicts and significant political and economic uncertainty, as well as the escalating impacts of climate change.
What lessons have we learned from recent crises in terms of how science advice mechanisms perform? What remains to be done to strengthen our science advice ecosystems, infrastructures, processes and practices to deal with what lies ahead?
This was a side event to the European Scientific Advice Mechanism 2025 Conference, Building bridges: shaping Europe’s science-for-policy-landscape.
We were delighted to welcome back some of the international panel who debated this topic with us in 2022, alongside new experts and perspectives:
- Professor Pearl Dykstra MAE, Professor of Empirical Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and former Deputy Chair of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors
- Dr David Phipps, Director, Research Impact Canada
- Dr Cornel Hart, University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and Member of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship
- Sarah Chaytor, Director of Research Strategy & Policy, University College London, Co-Chair, UPEN
- Dr Alessandro Allegra, Science-policy practitioner and researcher and Policy Assistant to the Deputy Director-General RTD, European Commission
This event was organised and hosted by Academia Europaea Cardiff and SAPEA, in partnership with UPEN.
Recording will be published soon
Updated 13th May 2025. For more information contact AECardiffHub@cardiff.ac.uk
