Event Date: May 22, 2024 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: FSS 4004, 120 University Private, University of Ottawa

This event is presented by CIPS, GSPIA and the French Embassy as part of a new project ‘Diplomatie scientifique/Science Diplomacy’ jointly funded by Ottawa U and the French Embassy.

This seminar, organized by Alexandra Gheciu (University of Ottawa), Patrick Fafard (University of Ottawa) and Pascal Griset (Sorbonne Université), visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, will present the main findings of the Horizon 2020 InsSciDE project “Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe”. It will describe the prospects for the development of a science diplomacy in Europe and briefly review the implications for Canada.

The event will take place in English and in French. It will be followed by an informal buffet lunch from 12pm – 1pm.

Introduction

Rethinking science diplomacy in France, Europe, and Canada

• Alexandra Gheciu (University of Ottawa) and Pascal Griset (Sorbonne Université-Sirice)

Panel 1: Insscide project benefits and extensions (in French)

The InsSciDE project: main results and new initiatives (Formydhs)

• Léonard Laborie, Research Fellow at CNRS (Sirice), former deputy director of the Insscide project

The example of the Arctic space: Europe, Norway and scientific diplomacy

• Rasmus Bertelsen, Professor at The Arctic University of Norway

Break (from approximately 10:20am – 10:40am)

Panel 2: Structuring the European Union’s science diplomacy through research (in English)

The European Commission and science diplomacy

• Jan Marco Muller, Coordinator for Science Diplomacy and Multilateral Relations European Commission, DG Research and Innovation.

Origins and development of EU science diplomacy

• Leire Leguina Casas, Project Manager, EU Science Diplomacy Alliance and FECYT

Conclusion

France-Canada collaboration to advance research on science diplomacy

• Patrick Fafard (Université d’Ottawa) and Pascal Griset (Sorbonne Université-Sirice)

Speakers:

Leire Leguina is the Science Diplomacy Coordinator at the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology. She is a seasoned project manager with over fifteen years of experience coordinating scientific, technological, and cultural projects for Spanish public institutions. Currently, she serves as the Science Advice and Diplomacy Coordinator at FECYT, where she focuses on strengthening science diplomacy strategies to internationalize Spain’s science, technology, and innovation system. She has also managed H2020 projects related to Citizen Science and the role of the Public Sector. Previously, she worked at the Consulate General of Spain in New York, overseeing scientific activities for the Spanish research community in the USA, and at Instituto Cervantes, promoting cultural and scientific events for its global network. LinkedIn / Twitter

Dr. Jan Marco MÜLLER is the Coordinator for Science Diplomacy and Multilateral Relations at the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation. Following his PhD in Geography, Jan Marco Müller’s career included management positions at environmental research centres in Germany, Italy and the UK. After being an Assistant to the Director-General of the Joint Research Centre JRC (2009-2012), he managed the office of the Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission (2012-2015) and then helped setting up the Commission’s current Scientific Advice Mechanism. 2017-2020 he worked for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) as Coordinator for Science Diplomacy. 2020-2022 he served as first Science & Technology Advisor of the European External Action Service (EEAS), before joining DG Research and Innovation as Coordinator for Science Diplomacy and Multilateral Relations. Jan Marco Müller is a Fellow of the International Science Council. Twitter/X: @JanMarcoScience

Dr. Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen is a Danish political scientist and International Relations scholar. He is the inaugural Barents Chair in Politics at the University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Bertelsen does research on the place of the Arctic in global environmental and political-economic globalisation processes. He is therefore focused on the role of the Arctic in a transforming international order where Asia is reclaiming its historical economic and political weight. Where Asian powers see themselves as stakeholders in regions around the world, these powers are concerned with climate change and they have interests in energy security, raw materials supply and shipping lanes for continued economic growth.

Léonard Laborie is a Research Fellow at the CNRS, UMR Sirice (Paris). An historian trained at Sorbonne Université, his research currently deals with the history of science councellors and attachés in the French diplomatic network since the 19th C. Laborie acted as the Deputy Coordinator for the H2020 InsSciDE Project (Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe).

Pascal Griset is Professor of Modern History at Sorbonne Université. Coordinator and PI, project H 2020 Insscide (Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe) Former director of the Institute of Communication Sciences (ISCC) (2013-2018) Trained as a business historian, his research focusses on innovation, research policies and research organisations in France and Europe. Former Fulbright Visiting Fellow and auditor of the Institute for Industrial Strategy, he is currently president of the Scientific Committee for the history of INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale), vice president of the Association for the History of Computing and Telecommunications, a member of the Committee for the economic and financial history of France, of the Scientific Committee for Historical Defense Research and the Scientific Council of the Committee for the History of La Poste. The first chairman of CNRS National Committee’s Section 42 (Interdiciplinary research on communication), Pascal Griset was a founding member of the steering committee of the Tensions of Europe international academic network. As such he participated in the ESF-Eurocores programme “Inventing Europe” (2008-2012) definition. He also was a member of the NIAS theme group “The Making of Europe”, which prepared a 6 volume European history of technology (1850-2000), J. Schot and P. Scranton eds; Palgrave, 2015-2017

Patrick Fafard is a Full professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He is the Research Director of the Public Health Institutions research program at the Global Strategy Lab (York University/ University of Ottawa). His research is focussed on public health governance, the role of science in the making of public policy, and global health governance, especially an integrated approach to the collective action problem of antimicrobial resistance.

Dr. Alexandra Gheciu is the Director of CIPS and a Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include, in addition to articles in leading academic journals, several books: NATO in the ‘’New Europe’: The Politics of International Socialization After the Cold War (Stanford University Press, 2005); Securing Civilization? The EU, NATO and the OSCE in the Post-9/11 World (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Return of the Public in Global Governance (co-edited with Jacqueline Best, Cambridge University Press, 2014); Security Entrepreneurs: Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe (Oxford University Press, 2018); and The Oxford Handbook of International Security (co-edited with William Wohlforth, Oxford University Press, 2018). She is a member of the team working on the Global Right project and is writing a new book on NATO in an illiberal world.