RRI Tools

SYNENERGENE is a four-years mobilization and mutual learning action plan (MMLAP) supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The project aims at initiating and fostering public dialogue on synthetic biology and mutual learning processes among a wide variety of stakeholders from science, industry, civil society, education, art and other fields.

Specifically, SYNENERGENE aims...

• to make existing practices of RRI in synthetic biology socially more robust,
• to mobilise new stakeholders to participate in discourse on synthetic biology,
• to involve the general public and specific “publics” and improve the quality of public participation by a wide variety of means,
• to analyse and to make available the results of all public dialogue and stakeholder-oriented activities to policy makers, other stakeholders, and the public,
• to promote mutual learning processes between a wide variety of established and new stakeholders in the discourse on synthetic biology, stimulating reflection and activities on a novel and innovative avenues to an inclusive governance framework in accordance with a European concept of RRI and of high international visibility, and
• to help to develop sustainable agendas for RRI in synthetic biology which systematically take into account the views of citizens involved in public communication activities.