New Protocol for Science Diplomacy

Science Diplomacy has the potential to play a considerable role in future international collaborations aiming to tackle societal challenges.

Science Diplomacy is an area on the interface between foreign policy, problem articulation (e.g. concerning SDGs) and science that is characterised by fluidity and multi-interpretability. Its definition, stakeholders and job descriptions are not fixed. As long as it is applied in collaborative situations and based on cosmopolitical interests, this new Science Diplomacy Protocol capitalizes on these circumstances and proposes principles of interaction that are applicable to various configurations of stakeholders and topics pertaining to the challenges societies face today.

The S4D4C Protocol outlines a set of twelve procedural and infrastructural principles that need to be considered to create transformative science diplomacy interactions. Not all are applicable to every situation, but it will be useful to consider combinations of principles in most. Depending on the specific situation, it can be possible that several of the principles need to be balanced with each other and that sometimes trade-offs between them are inevitable.

You can access the 12 principles here.

The “New Protocol for Science Diplomacy” has been developed by S4D4C consortium members Ewert Aukes, Gonzalo Ordó?ez-Matamoros, Stefan Kuhlmann, and Sanaz Honarmand Ebrahimi from University of Twente, the Netherlands, in collaboration with James Wilsdon, University of Sheffield.

On a S4D4C background page of you will find everything you need to know about the Protocol what it is, how we developed it, and what use you can make of it.

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/ewertaukes/

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/gonzalo-ordonez-matamoros-4b11645/

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/james-wilsdon-0112a7/

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/sanaz-honarmand-ebrahimi/