Angela Simone

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ABOUT ANGELA SIMONE

Citizen engagement in R&I processes and policies and sci comm expert. Current EU projects: Coordinator of the EU HEU REINFORCING project on building up an EU Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (ORRI) hub; Citizen engagement in knowledge valorization processes for the HEU CO-VALUE project; RRI activities leader of the EU H2020 ENLIGHT project aiming at developing 3D bioprinter for pancreatic tissue; MEET, EU Researchers\' Night in Milan; Citizen engagement on autonomous vehicles in Cesena for Interreg GINEVRA. Adjunct Professor in RRI at the Polimi Graduate School of Management (Executive Master in Management of Research, Innovation and Technology). EU Commission expert evaluator and citizen engagement policy expert since 2018. Jury expert (Involve section) for the ERC “Public Engagement with Research” Award (2022). Expert member of the MLE on Public Engagement in R&I (2024). Project designer/manager and communication manager in EU projects. Past projects: BIOPOP (FP6)- public communication of life sciences (20••••06); CIRCE (FP6) & RACES (LIFE+)- climate change in the Mediterranean area (20••••11); VOICES (FP7)- public engagement in EU waste research agenda setting (20••••15); RRI Tools (FP7)- RRI Toolkit for R&I actors (20••••19); SMART-map (H2020)- RRI in the industrial context of 3D med, Precision Medicine, SynBio (20••••18); SOCIETY (H2020)- EU Researchers\' Night in Bologna and Romagna area (20••••17); TRANSFORM (H2020)- coordinator; citizen engagement in R&I policymaking in Lombardy, Catalonia and Brussels-Capital, leading Lombardy participatory research agenda setting (20••••22); MOSAIC (H2020)- deputy coordinator - research project on co-creation actions in the context of the EU Mission \"Climate Neutral and Smart Cities\" in Milan and Gothenburg, leading the pilot in Milan (20••••23). Past science communication activities: a) project designer/manager for public and school projects related to science, technology, open science; b) chair/speaker of national and international public events; c) freelance journalist for several press, web and radio outlets (past - selected: Il Venerdì di Repubblica; Wired Italia magazine; Le Scienze- Scientific American Italian edition); d) science writer of textbooks, audio products and webseries plots. Citizen engagement, science communication and RRI lecturer for: Master classes and workshops for R&I managers, researchers, communication officers, entrepreneurs, TT officers, sci comm practitioners, and policymakers. Scholar in RRI, STS, and Science Communication.