ACCOMPLISSH final conference treats the role of human sciences on social challenges
The closing session of the European project ACCOMPLISSH, which takes place on January 30 and 31, is intended to be the starting point for a debate in Europe on the role of social and human sciences to face phenomena such as migrations, sustainability or technological changes. These sessions take place in the Humanities and Social Sciences Park of the UB, in the building Can Jaumandreu, with the participation of researchers from the fourteen European universities that take part in the project ACCOMPLISSH, and managers from public administrations and representatives of several social entities and companies. The aim of ACCOMPLISH is to promote the social impact of research in social and human sciences through the co-creation among academicians and social actors, so that they can carry out a collaborative innovation process.
The closing session of the European project ACCOMPLISSH, which takes place on January 30 and 31, is intended to be the starting point for a debate in Europe on the role of social and human sciences to face phenomena such as migrations, sustainability or technological changes. These sessions take place in the Humanities and Social Sciences Park of the UB, in the building Can Jaumandreu, with the participation of researchers from the fourteen European universities that take part in the project ACCOMPLISSH, and managers from public administrations and representatives of several social entities and companies. The aim of ACCOMPLISH is to promote the social impact of research in social and human sciences through the co-creation among academicians and social actors, so that they can carry out a collaborative innovation process.
The organization of the first day of the sessions counts on the participation of the Research Group on Teacher Training and Pedagogical Innovation (FODIP), and will be be dedicated to present the results of the project, and during the second day, they will show cases of innovation in themes such as migration, sustainability and technological change. Among the speakers is Péter Giczey, president of the Hungarian association Életfa, on support and community services to vulnerable collectives in Hungary, who will treat the topic on migrations. Managers of public policies in the Catalan administration such as Ismael Peña-López and Núria Guevara will give a workshop on citizen participation and new technologies. Other participants are Cristoph Köller, consultant interested in the application of human sciences to robotics and in technological challenges in general. During the day, cases of co-creation among academicians and social actors will be presented, with a special emphasis on the experience of young researchers. The opening session, which is taking place on Wednesday, January 30, at 2 p.m., will be given by Peter Meister-Broekema, coordinator of the project ACCOMPLISSH, the UB lecturer Núria Serrat, and Sharon Smith, coordinator in ACCOMPLISSH for the first two years of the project. Afterwards, there will be a presentation of the results of the project and the institutional welcome with representatives of the UB, the European Commission and the Catalan Government. After the speeches, workshops and roundtables, the second and last day will close the session with an open public activity, presented as a dialogue between the actors of the Quadruple Helix of Barcelona on how to search for shared solutions for the problems of the 21st century. You can read the rest of the program here.
The project ACCOMPLISSH, coordinated by the University of Groningen, stands for Accelerate Co-creation by Setting up a Multi-actor Platform for Impact from Social Sciences and Humanities. It wants to create an innovative valorisation of research in the field of social sciences, working together with social actors -the potential users of research- and in the frame of the so called Quadruple Helix (universities, private sector, public sector and third sector). During the first three years of ACCOMPLISH some resource documents on the theory and practice of innovation processes have been written, as well as the design and communication of research, and a manual of research valorisation has also been published.