High-level consultation event

Scientific Advice and Research for Social Justice

SEE OUR SOCIAL JUSTICE JOURNEY, 2012 – 2023

28/29 June, 2012, South African Mission to the EU, Brussels

First High-Level Consultation Event: 27 African, American & European thought-leaders from 15 countries gathered under the chairpersonship of Dame Anne Glover, Chief Science Adviser to the European Commission President and Prof. Patrick Cunningham, Chief Science Adviser to the Government of Ireland.

(For a full listing of attendees, please click on the picture).

A snapshot of interim meetings & scientific panels held 2012 – 2016

July 2016, Manchester Town Hall: Final High-Level Consultation Event Codifying the Brussels Declaration on Ethics & Principles for Science & Society Policy-Making

February 2017 – Brussels Declaration Launch American Association for the Advancement of Science Boston

The 2017 Brussels Declaration is a 20-point blueprint for a new set of ethics and principles to inform work at the boundary between science, society and policy. It makes the case for a multi-disciplinary approach encouraging greater integrity and accountability among stakeholders.

June 2017 – First African Science, Society and Policy Indaba

First meeting aimed specifically at maximising the knowledge gained from 2012 – 2017 towards establishing a new five-year, open consultative process towards the 2022 Cape Town Declaration on Science for Social Justice.

7 June 2017, Cape Town, The African Science, Society & Policy Indaba co-chaired by Prof Roseanne Diab (SA), CEO, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) & Prof. Julian Kinderlerer (SA-UK), President, European Group on Ethics.

7 June 2017, Cape Town, The African Science, Society & Policy Indaba co-chaired by Prof Roseanne Diab (SA), CEO, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and Prof. Julian Kinderlerer (SA-UK), President, European Group on Ethics.

2017 – 2022 Igniting Conversations About Science and Society: Towards the Cape Town Declaration 2022

4 December 2022, Cape Town: Final High-Level Consultation Event: Agreeing the essence of our collective’s social justice messages

17 July 2023: Be part of history and get involved in our Cape Town Declaration on Science for Social Justice final gathering

17 July 2023, Pretoria, finalising the Cape Town Declaration on Science for Social Justice with draft texts presented by Prof. David Budtz Pedersen (DK), Professor of Science Communication; Director of the Humanomics Research Centre, Aalborg University, Copenhagen and Founding Member, Cape Town Declaration on Science for Social Justice; and finalisation of texts presented by Aidan Gilligan (IRL), CEO, SciCom – Making Sense of Science; Initiator and Organiser, Cape Town Declaration on Science for Social Justice 2012 – 2022.

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The SDCfA was initiated by South Africa’s Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to promote multilateral collaboration to address the challenges facing humanity.

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