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Knowledge Management at the interface between Science and Policy
Kjell Andersson was Guest Editor for a Special issues of the journal Knowledge Management Research & Practice. The Special, Issue, published in September 2011, has the title Knowledge Management at the Interface between Science and Policy. The Special Issue takes a broad perspective of knowledge management at the societal level and seven papers cover issues from employee motivation in companies to the interface between science and policy making in societal controversial areas like nuclear energy. The guest editor observes that knowledge management in all cases requires input from a broad variety of angles to avoid a too narrow framing at the science policy interface.
palgrave-journals.com: Volume 9, Issue 3 (September 2011)The IPPA Project
A course on the RISCOM Model was held in Prague on May 19-20, 2011 for leaders of the implementation in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Romania.
The first IPPA report has been published. In the previous ARGONA project, new approaches to participation were explored, the project included both theoretical studies and practical implementation, and resulted in proposed guidelines for participation and transparency. This IPPA report is intended to be an "easy to read" report for linking ARGONA achievements to the implementation in IPPA.
The report can be downloaded here (PDF, 0.8 MB)The RISCOM Reference Group in Poland has been established by an agreement between the participants. The Agreement especially recognizes that "the collaboration between Reference Group members is only for clarification of issues and creating mutual understanding and not for any material or procedural joint decision making thus making it possible for a very wide spectrum of organizations to take part without jeopardizing their autonomy and independence of each other".
The Agreement, which included a list of participants, can be downloaded here (PDF, 0.5 MB)The second IPPA report has been published with the title "The IPPA Knowledge Base Version 1". The aim of this report is to take a step in building a Knowledge Base of tools for participation. In order to do this, a number of engagement processes concerned with contentious issues in different policy areas in several countries have been examined. The review is presented in a framework that may form the point of departure for building a systematic and comprehensive knowledge base of participatory approaches.
The report can be downloaded here (PDF, 1.8 MB)Copper corrosion
Recently is has been decided that the domain of the SKB reference group for copper corrosion will be expanded to include selected experiments at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory. Namely the current retrieval of parts of the "Prototype Repository" and the "Minican" experiment.
Äspö Hard Rock LaboratoryRecent presentations, conferences, etc
At the SKB conference "Stockholm Spring Talks" on May 3-4, 2011, Kjell Andersson had a presentation "Implementing methods of participation and transparency at national and international levels" which dealt with Fundamentals for public involvement and the safe space concept linking the two EU projects ARGONA and IPPA.
The presentation can be downloaded here (PDF, 0.4 MB)