SCIENCE ADVICE FOR POLICY
BY EUROPEAN ACADEMIES

Florian Süssenguth on advising Angela Merkel

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How does Angela Merkel’s confidential science and innovation advisory group function? When can industry stakeholders play a role in science advice, and what are the benefits and challenges when they do? Florian Süssenguth discusses these questions with Toby Wardman of SAPEA.

We also discuss the difficulty of measuring impact, science advice in the post-Merkel future, and what innovation actually means anyway.

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Salvatore Aricò on science advice at the United Nations

How might the future of science advice look at the global level? Will the establishment of a UN Group of Friends on Science for Action be the catalyst that elevates science advice to the highest levels of multilateral decision-making, and how will this complement the Secretary-General’s renewed scientific advisory board? And what should the role of the international science community be?

In this episode, Dr Salvatore Aricò, chief executive of the International Science Council, shares his experience and his vision with Toby Wardman, drawing on practical examples to illustrate how such science advice mechanisms work in practice.

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