Sylwia Mrozowska (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Speaker: Prof. Sylwia Mrozowska (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Talk: Public Understanding of Biotechnology
Time: Friday, 5th of September 2014, 8:30 (gr. A), 10:45 (gr. B)
Venue: Biotechnology Summer School 2014, OW Syrenka, Stegna
Category: Invited lecture during Biotechnology Summer School
Sylwia Mrozowska, biographical note
Associate professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Gdansk and the head of the post-graduate studies in the field of “Civic activation of local communities in the European Union”. She is the principal investigator and coordinator of national and international projects (the National Center for Research and Development (NCBR), the Jean Monnet Programme, the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy) and the author of publications dealing with the issues of lobbing, strategies, democratic engagement, social participation, civic society, public understanding of technology. Currently, her work focuses on the development of the social communication model in the scope of new nuclear technologies (strategic research project NCBR).
In 2013 Sylwia Mrozowska became a founding member of the Polish Society of Technology Assessment.