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Citizens’Agenda for
Science, Technology and Innovation:Universities & Public Appproach to Science
Montreal, May 2015
Roberto Escalante, UDUAL
The UDUAL organized the query with the support of its associate universities.
The Citizen’s Agenda for Science, Technology and Innovation stemmed from theMexican Senate’s request made to the National Council of Science andTechnology to celebrate a national query on science and technology.
A linking strategy was created among government institutions in three areas,public and private universities, nongovernmental organizations, and technologytransfer centers, in order to develop the consultation.
On 2011, the Commission of Science and Technology of the Senate, the National Council
for Science and Technology (CONACyT), the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), the
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Union of Universities of Latin
America and the Caribbean (UDUAL) designed the rules of a Citizen’s Agenda for
Science, Technology, and Innovation.
The initiative consisted of ten challenges from which three had to be chosen.
The query was held in Mexico from November 7, 2012 to January 30, 2013.
Its purpose was to create an exercise of scientific popularization in order to increase the
culture of science. In addition, it aimed to review the opinion of people on science and
technology subjects.
More than 70 entities joined the initiative.
Develop a competitive Mexican
aerospace industry with results
geared towards society
Preserve the
environment to improve
our quality of life
Integrate mental health
and addictions to public
health
Modernize the Education
System with a humanistic,
scientific and technological
approach
Ensure the supply of
drinking water for the
entire population
Have a more productive
field in order to reach
food sovereignty
Have a clean,
sustainable, efficient and
affordable energy system
Form a high quality
Health System for the
entire population
Develop the ability to prevent
and adapt to the effects of
climate change
Build an informed society on
immigration and diversity
sensitized to the rights of
migrants
On 2010, a similar public consultation took place in Spain. It was internet based and sponsoredby the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT).
The challenges were, for instance:
1. Overcoming language barriers through technology2. More comfortable, accessible and ecological cities3. Personalized medical treatments by genetics4. Robots that make our lives easier5. Artificial organs to replace damaged ones This initiative won 107.309 votes
between April 16 and May 26, 2010.
The main objective of this query was to value science, innovation and creativity as drivers of progress and welfare of society, and to reach new audiences and segments away from publicdecisions on collective challenges.
Background
Publicperception of science in Mexico
18+ year-old population, by age group.
We rely too much on faith and very little in science
The application of science makes our way of life change too fast
Some numbers are lucky Technological development creates an artificial and dehumanized way of living
Strongly agree Do not knowAgree Disagree Strongly disagree
Source: National Query of Public Perception on Science, INEGI, 2011
Source: National Query of Public Perception on Science, INEGI, 2011
18+ year-old population, by age group.
Relies equally on both
Total Relies more on science
Do not rely on any
Relies more on faith or religion
Do not know
Publicperception of science in Mexico
Why did the universities join this initiative?
The need to establish a new model of Latin American University: More sensitive to challenges of globalization and knowledge society.
More approached to social sector; strengthen extension activities.
Public and private universities must take the global trends to take advantage from them. However , universities should not lose their direction or their autonomy and remain the critical conscience of society.
Universities have the responsibility to provide scientific, professional, humanistic, artistic and technical training at the highest level.
Contribute to economic competitiveness and sustainable human development.
Reports of Public Perception of Science, Research and Innovation in Spain, Mexico and Latin American countries; people think that budget to R&D&I is wasted in unnecessary expenses.
It is necessary to remind people that science and technology are everywhere, in all objects used daily and improve their living conditions.
R&D&I to improve the quality of life (developed countries): Transportinfrastructure, adaptation of society to an ageing population, security of citizens, protection of personal data, education and skills, artificial intelligence, health.
R&D&I to resolve the social debts left by the demise of the welfare state (Mexico and Latin America): immigration, water supply, education, availability of food, social care and Health, reduction of inequalities.
Why did the universities join this initiative?
Objectives of Citizen’s Agenda for
Science, Technology and Innovation
To face the problems that affect the country with
R&D&I and social innovation.
To establish ways of communication and citizen
participation on scientific affairs.
To include citizen opinion in drafting the National
Agenda on Science, Technology and Innovation.
To be an exercise of science popularization.
As a part of the reflection and analysis of the challenges, ten volumes containing the diagnosis of the current situation were published, along with possible solutions for each challenge.
The books and the results were
delivered to the main decision
makers of country.
And most importantly: The
books are available to the whole
population.
The coordination of these books was given by leading experts in each topic.
Preserve the environment to improve our quality of life
33,655
364,803 votes
Modernize the Education Systemwith humanistic, scientific and technological approachEnsure the supply of
drinking water for theentire population
Integrate mental health and addictions to public
health
Have a more productive field in order to reach food
sovereignty
Have a clean, sustainable, efficient and affordable energy system
Form a high quality Health System for the
entire population
Develop a competitive Mexican aerospace industry with results
geared towards society
Develop the ability to prevent and adapt to the effects of climate change
Build an informed society on immigration and diversity sensitized to the rights of migrants
19,111
19,175
23,167
36,534
49,410
62,328
56,254
42,599
22,570
First Science and
Technology
Interuniversity Contest
Vive Conciencia Contest is a call for social innovation.
Considering the ten challenges of the Citizen's Agenda, undergraduate students must design an innovative project to address the challenge.
Students of nationwide universities, both public and private.
Students offer practical solutions to everyday problems to improve their environment and the population as a whole. Students should offer an innovative idea, which consists of a change in behavior or new uses for an existing product or invention of new products.
Bring citizens closer to science, technology and innovation and recognize the contributions that these sectors performed in different areas of daily life.
Nowadays, the complex of emergent economies demands creative and innovativesolutions to face the poverty and generate income sources.
In this case, we understand social innovation as a continuous transformationsustained in some phases:
1. Identifying social needs uncovered by government.2. The development of social needs.3. Evaluating the effectiveness of the innovations.4. The scale of the innovations or products and their.
popularizing to the rest of the society.
The US government created the Social Innovation Fund, which recognizes theentrepreneurs and the social sector as subjects for the economicaldevelopment of the country.
About the contest
About the contest
Vive ConCiencia contest was launched on Science and Technology week, on November 2013
The same institutions of Citizens Agenda for ST+i organized the contest.
The deadline to send the projects was March 31, 2014.
A winner from each challenge (Ten challenges) and five Honorable Mentions.
The winners’ projects were presented in Science and Technology Week2014.
1,342 proposals were received, but only 961 were elegible.
Solutions to daily problems
The challenge was to create an innovative product or solution to the selected problem and translate the results into a video of 1 to 3 minutes:
1. Explain the problem and how it impacts the communityor the environment where they live.
2. Describe the new product or solution.
3. Indicate a scientific substantiation of the proposal.
4. Present how innovation solves that problem.
Extension activities: Incubation of business innovation projects with socialcontent.
Bootcamps, New Ventures, AVINA, Ashoka: Catalyzes social innovation inhigher education.
RedUNES-UDUAL: Uniting Latin American universities through SocialEntrepreneurship. Companies with human sense which seek to be financiallysustainable, but generate shared benefits.
Entrepreneurship and social innovation are two aspects of socialmanagement, driven from the universities.
Social service is a link between the university and society, which reaffirms thesocial relevance of the University. It is necessary to strengthen the socialservice with scholarships.
Universities and Social Innovation
Innovation is an engine of development, but it has always been regarded asscientific or technical.
Innovation not only results in patenting: The social vision of entrepreneurshipfocuses projects to parliamentary democracy, gender equality, universal socialsecurity, free education, generalized literacy and social peace (Ikka Taipale).
Social innovations guarantee equality, but require social participation.
Social innovation does not solely relates to emerging economies: Developedcountries stimulate as well because they seek to ensure equality andenvironmental balance.
The university plays a fundamental role in the design and implementation of socialinnovations.
Universities perfect innovations that emerge from society. Students retake theseneeds and take them to laboratories and classrooms, which in turn are redefinedwith scientific and technological vision.
Universities and Social Innovation