Governance

Students will be in charge of finding and getting in touch with different stakeholders, who will be involved in the different phases of the activity. Students and stakeholders will make responsible decisions collectively.

i.e.: Depending on the topic that you want to raise in the project, students will be responsible for finding and involving different stakeholders, experts in the field with which they will share the progress in order to make decisions that may affect the results of the project.

Public engagement

A very important part of this activity is the interaction of the stakeholders, who will be found by students according to the topics contemplated in the Accelerator. Students will be able to establish new relationships with stakeholders and encourage them to collaborate with each other in order to discuss issues related to the project.

i.e.: to develop this activity, students must create new relationships with expert stakeholders in the topics that they wish to contemplate. For this, they will be able to interview them periodically, with the aim of involving them in the research and innovation phases.

Gender equality

Students will be able to consider the gender dimension throughout the activity, and work to break social stereotypes on gender issues.

i.e.: the debates that take place must have a vision of gender equality, in which the opinions of both men and women matter. Students may also involve the same number of male and female stakeholders, with the aim of looking for a gender equal vision of the debates.

Science Education

Students will encourage discussions to address the solutions with a critical perspective. Furthermore, students can also share the responsibility for formulating scientific policies, depending on the topic covered in the debates and the conclusions drawn.

i.e.: when discussing during this Accelerator, students can choose topics that foster critical thinking around the world of science and that enable citizens to discuss around policies and, if possible, generate new ones.

Ethics

Students can reflect on the opinions expressed by the stakeholders involved in the activity as well as by society in general, sharing responsibility for the conclusions drawn with them.

i.e.: When preparing a debate, students will be able to reflect on all the opinions generated around the topic or topics discussed. In addition, they may be responsible for drawing conclusions that reflect the ideas and conceptions of the stakeholders involved, including those of the experts and those of society in general (through neighbors, relatives, etc.).

Open Access

Students will be able to consult peer-reviewed literature, dissemination publications and data around the chosen topics. All this information will allow you to delve more deeply into the issues to be discussed in the debates.

i.e.: once a topic of debate has been chosen, in order to prepare it, students will be able to consult different sources of online information that will allow them to extract opinions formed on the issues to be worked on. In addition, their conclusions may also be published on social networks and / or websites to disseminate and share it with the interested public.