Initiatives and Actions
— MiXtura has several areas of activity and is constantly developing new ones.
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This initiative promotes more open and responsible science with respect to society and the environment.
Responsible Research and Innovation and Open Science are necessary to improve the social (equality, peaceful purposes, ethics and social justice, needs of marginalized communities, etc.) and environmental impact of Science, Technology, and Innovation.
This initiative promotes interdisciplinary cooperation, incorporating society into the R&D&I process and the design of inclusive and responsible policies to strengthen the science-policy-society interface. It focuses on raising awareness and promoting the practice of more responsible science in line with the 2017 UNESCO Recommendations on Research and Researchers and the 2021 UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science.
It promotes learning and exchanges, and the inclusion of the perspectives of rural society, diversity, and the Global South in scientific discussions and challenges for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change agreements. Along these lines, Mixtura, through its President, is leading an effort to create a permanent Science and Innovation Coordination Group for CELAC with the European Commission, a Marine Mammal Research Network in the Caribbean with UNEP, and advisory services to define priorities for marine scientific cooperation between Europe and the Caribbean within the Horizon Europe program. It is also leading, with UNESCO, the work package on the reform of the research evaluation system for the promotion of Open Science for the OPUS project, funded by the same Horizon Europe program, and the Social Impact Assessment and Gender Integration package for the European FIC-fighters project on phosphogypsum valorization.
You can contact its coordinators here:
-Juliana Chaves Chaparro, Bachelor of Environmental Sciences, DEA in territorial planning, soon to be PhD in Sociology. Senior consultant in international scientific cooperation for UNESCO in Africa and UNEP, EC in Latin America and the Caribbean, SIDA, AECID, among others.
– Dr. Carlos Fernández Tornero, PhD in Biochemistry, Research Director at the Center for Biological Research of the CSIC.
