A project financed by the European Commission on Citizen Participation in Science and Technology - supplying a training package

1. CIPAST
Citizen Participation in Science and Technology
CIPAST aims at fostering citizen participation by exchanging know-
ledge and experience. The transfer of knowledge and expertise is
accomplished by tools like newsletters, website and a discussion
list. But the heart of work is the implementation of a case-studies’
based corpus of training tools: ‘CIPAST in Practice – Doing Public
Participation’.
The studies, experiences and proposals that the CIPAST network intends to share The CIPAST consortium
and develop are based on two phenomena or two major trends in our societies:
The CIPAST platform strongly takes into account a rich
On the desire to renew and enhance the democratic dialogue and decision-mak- context of recent initiatives, studies and research pro-
ing processes in contemporary so