Projects and Partners
INGSA has a long history of working in Europe with a diverse set of partners. In 2016, the European Commission hosted the 2nd International Conference on Science Advice to Governments, marking the start of an ongoing and productive relationship between INGSA and European institutions.
More recently, INGSA-Europe has undertaken a series of projects designed to complement and support existing efforts to strengthen science advice systems across the region. With a focus on building capability, synthesising evidence, and amplifying practitioner and researcher perspectives across diverse political and institutional contexts, these projects reflect INGSA-Europe’s commitment to evidence-informed, inclusive and context-sensitive approaches to science advice.
See below for more details of INGSA-Europe’s project work.
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Current projects
Science Advice in Challenging Settings
Across many national contexts, established approaches to science advice are being tested by political polarisation, shifting forms of governance, declining trust, rapid technological development, and pressures on democratic institutions. These dynamics raise difficult questions for those involved in providing, using, or supporting scientific evidence in policy debates regarding which practices remain fit for purpose, which need to evolve, and how advisors and institutions can act with integrity and effectiveness under constraint.
This project aims to identify and describe current and emerging challenges to the provision and use of science advice in Europe and contribute to ongoing discussion about how science advice can remain credible, inclusive, and impactful in complex and contested policy environments.
This project brings together a scoping review, a collaborative blog series and research with current and former practitioners to develop shared learning across diverse national and institutional contexts.
Scoping review: Science Advice in Challenging Settings
Blog series
A joint blog series by INGSA-Europe and Frontiers Policy Labs exploring how science advice operates under political, social, and institutional pressure
Capability Building for Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) in Europe
Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) are central to the future resilience and diversity of science advice systems, yet their engagement is often fragmented, informal, or poorly incentivised. This project focuses on strengthening how EMCRs are supported to engage with policy and decision-making across science advice systems across two broad aims:
- First, to better connect and amplify existing knowledge, training and opportunities, helping useful experience travel further and faster across Europe and beyond.
- Second, to strengthen the case for EMCR engagement by examining how, when and why their participation adds value to policy-making, rather than taking those benefits for granted.
These aims are pursued through a scoping review of evidence on EMCR capability building and a blog series and interactive workshops inviting reflection from EMCRs, practitioners and policymakers on lived experience at science–policy interfaces.
Visit the sections below to explore the different components of this project.
Scoping review: Capability building for EMCR’s
EMCR blog series
A blog series highlighting the experiences of Early and Mid-Career Researchers and sharing learnings from capability building efforts across science-for-policy ecosystems
Past projects
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INCLUSIVE – Language, Culture, and Context
To support the development of its new Chapter in Europe, INGSA launched The ‘INfluence of Culture and LangUages on Science adVice in Europe’ or ‘INCLUSIVE’ project in January 2023. The project aimed to explore how language, culture and context affects the provision and use of scientific evidence in Europe and to consider any implications for…
INGSA-Europe Collaboration Partners
European Commission – Joint Research Centre & DG Research and Innovation
From the very beginning of INGSA, we have had a close working relationship with the European Commission – largely through the Joint Research Centre and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (including the European Commission Science Advice Mechanism).
INGSA greatly values the ongoing support and collaboration with European Commission. In 2016, the European Commission hosted INGSA’s 2nd international conference.
University College London – UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)
INGSA would like to recognise UCL for the long term partnerships and support that has enabled diverse and fruitful projects and collaboration. From working together via the International Public Policy Observatory, to working with many of the exceptional individual researchers on issues such as Legislative Science Advice and Science Diplomacy, there remain strong ties between INGSA and STEaPP.
