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Repository monitoring in the context of repository governance
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Abstract
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| This report summarizes the social scientific component of the Modern2020 project (work package 5). This package has four objectives: i) to actively engage local public stakeholders in repository monitoring R&D within the Modern2020 project, and to analyse the impact this has on both the participating stakeholders’ and the project partners’ understanding of, and expectations regarding, repository monitoring; ii) to define more specific ways for integrating public stakeholder concerns and expectations into specific repository monitoring programmes, iii) to develop ideas on how to ensure accessibility and transparency of monitoring data (of the type gathered through in-situ monitoring) to public stakeholders, and iv) to learn lessons on how local stakeholder groups could be engaged effectively with R&D programmes and projects at an EU level. A theoretical framework is presented, inspired by the emergent field of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), which makes explicit the increasing demand for research and innovation systems to reflect upon their role and position in society and to re-examine their course and goals. The concept of RRI is also supported by the European Commission. From this background and based on Delgado et al. (2011), five crucial questions to deal with concerning citizen stakeholder involvement in R&D programmes are developed: “Why should we do citizen engagement?”, “Who should be involved?”, “How should it be organised?”, “When should it be done?”, “Where should it be grounded?”. We understand these questions as opening up tensions, since no clear or uncontroversial answers are to be found. Nevertheless, these questions are necessary to manage in practice, which requests sensitivity from responsible actors when organising and supporting citizen stakeholder engagement in relation to participants’ demands and to contextual factors. This framework is made a resource when analysing the activities carried out by WP5, i.e. citizen engagement at the project level and additional home engagement activities, and the development of a stakeholder guide and an online interactive survey. In a chapter called ‘lessons learned’, our aim is to present reflections on how citizen stakeholder engagement could be integrated in a good way in similar R&D projects by drawing on concrete lessons learned from local stakeholder engagement in the Modern2020 project. Finally, in the fifth chapter, we present some concluding practical recommendations following from these lessons learned. We hope them to be of use when considering the engagement of (local) citizen stakeholder in other R&D projects at the EU level, beyond the scope of monitoring and geological disposal of radioactive waste. |
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English
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Brussels
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EC-EURATOM
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2019
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78 p.
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Full text (open access)
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