2006-2008

The overall objective of SUPER-SME is to contribute to a quantifiable increase in research expenditure by the business sector in the participating regions within a 5-year period after the project. This will be done by promoting an improved integration of public and private research capacities through evaluating, rationalizing, and strengthening the know-how of regional systems of science and technology intermediaries.
The project if financially supported by the EU’s 6th Framework Programme (subprogramme KNOW-REG-2). Among its participants there are seven countries (France, Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, and Turkey), the consulting agency for innovation Technopolis, and regional organizations for innovation from the above mentioned countries.
The Centre for Science, Technology, Society Studies, represented by Adolf Filáček, is the Czech partner of the project.

2006-2008

The BCI project is commissioned by the European Social Fund, Objective 3 Single Programming Document of the region the Capital City Prague.
The overall objective of the project is to support the transfer of knowledge, experts and technologies from the research sphere to business and to increase the qualifications of firms and research institutions in the management of the innovation process. The project proceeds from the methodology for evaluating the innovative potential of a company and introducing a system of innovations that was developed by a team of the University of West Bohemia in 2000-2001. Within the framework of the BCI project the methodology is adapted to the needs of the coaching technique (personalised guidance of company managers).
Cheval s.r.o. is the project implementer and the partners of the project are: Association of Research Organisations, Prague Economic Chamber, University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, and Centre for Science, Technology, Society Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (represented by Petr Machleidt and Karel Mráček).

2006-2007

ProAct is an acronym for the project ”Practical Regional Research and Innovation Policy in Action – the Efficient Tools for Regional Catching-up in New Member States”. It is a Coordination Action financed within the Regions of Knowledge (identifier: 2 FP6-2004-KNOW-REG-2) activity of the European Commission.
In ProAct 4 old and 4 new EU member states (Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) join forces in search of best practice of regional innovation policy implementation.
The Czech partners of the project are the Centre for Science, Technology, Society Studies, represented by Adolf Filáček and Jiří Loudín, and the South Moravian Innovation Centre in Brno.
An international conference was organised in Prague on the 20th of September 2007 to discuss the best practices in regional innovation and research policy worked out during the first 20 months of the ProAct project. The main objective of the conference was to make a wider publicity of the ProAct network and the book (under finalisation), which summarises the benchmarks as well as the regional case studies (Hungary, Austria, Great Britain, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Slovakian, and the Czech Republic). The Joint Declaration of the ProAct network was introduced.

2006

This European analytical project was pursued in 2006 on behalf of the DG Regional Policy EC. The main coordinator and implementer of the project was Technopolis, Ltd. The Czech partners were Adolf Filáček and Jiří Loudín from the Centre for Science, Technology, Society Studies and Šimon Krbec from Cheval s.r.o. The final analysis is presented here.

2004-2005

INES investigated the issue of the incorporation of ethics in Science and Technology Policy in terms of the methodologies used and their actual impact in decision making. Debates on technological developments touch fundamental ethical considerations and uncover wide mistrust in public authorities and scientific establishments. Policy makers have reacted by incorporating ethics into the decision making processes of S&T policy. Different nations have different ways of doing this, ranging from advisory expert committees to open debates with relevant stakeholders. The form and method in which ethics is incorporated in S&T varies greatly throughout Europe and its actual impact in decision making is still unclear. INES brings together a group of leading European experts in the area of S&T ethics and the relevant policy making community, to analyse comparatively the manner by which ethics is incorporated into the official decision making structures.
Eight EU countries (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Great Britain), Switzerland and one candidate country (Bulgaria) participated in the INES project. The main objectives of the project were: comparison of different forms of institutionalised ethics in decision-making processes in the field of science ant technology; identification of gender problems related with incorporation of ethics in the field of science and technology; identification of “the best practices“ in incorporation of ethics into decision-making processes; identification of procedures for anticipation of impacts of ethics on decision-making processes; establishing of an Europe-wide communication platform for dealing with ethics problems within the field of science and technology.

2002 - 2004

Research institutions of 9 countries took part in the Project RECORD: 3 EU member countries (Austria, Ireland, Great Britain) and 6 new member countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia). Results have been published in several proceedings (two of them were issued in 2002, the third one in 2003, and the last one in 2004 – all can be downloaded at www.record-network.net) and the total results of the project are presented in the following two books:

1) The RECORD Manual: Benchmarking Innovative Research Organisations in European Accession Countries. Borsi, B., Dévai, K., Papanek, G., Rush, H. (eds.), EC STRATA initiative, Budapest, January 2004, 80 p.

2) Experimental map of the project RECORD: Innovative Research Organisations in European Accession Countries. Borsi, B., Dévai, K., Papanek, G. (eds.), EC STRATA initiative, Budapest, January 2004.

2002 - 2003

The TAMI project (including first of all creation of an international TA network), was supported by EC within the 5th EU Framework Programme. Ten research centres from the whole Europe were taking part in this project. TAMI project was focused on assessment of impacts (including political impacts) of the TA results and on comparison of TA methods (identification of criteria, classification of TA methods and legalisation of TA results). The project resulted in the monograph “Bridges between Science, Society and Policy. Technology Assessment - Methods and Impacts. Decker, M., Ladikas, M. (eds.), contributor Machleidt, P.; Springer Verlag, Berlin - Heidelberg - New York 2004, 250 p.

1999 - 2000

This large scale project realised by the Joint Research Centre EU, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies at Sevilla, was aimed to current problems of the EU development, including enlargement of EU by candidate countries. Studies “Enlargement Chapter“ and “Education, Training and Skills“, elaborated by the Joint Research Centre EU Sevilla, encompassed analyses of the problems with enlargement in the field of research, development and education. Adolf Filáček provided bases for and comments on the studies and took an active part at the final conference (IPTS Futures Project, Brussels, 10-11 February, 2000.

1999 - 2000

The project in question was realised by the European Academy for study of consequences of technical and scientific advance (Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Ltd.). In 2001 the following monograph has been published by C. J. Langenbach, Otto Ulrich (eds.): “Elektronische Signaturen Kulturelle Rahmenbedingungen einer technischen Entwicklung“, Springer – Verlag, 2001 ,where the Chapter „From reality to vision“, section 2.9.1.2 „Tschechische Republic”, was elaborated by P. Machleidt.

2001

The project was supported by EC within the EU´s 5th Framework Programe. A case study on utilisation and development of human resources has been elaborated in co-operation with the Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse des Forschungszentrums Karlsruhe and with Joint Research Centre EU, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). The Centre participation on the projects was co-ordinated by P. Machleidt, the study itself has been elaborated by A. Filáček, J. Loudín and P. Machleidt.