Making Europe through and for its Research Infrastructures: CoproducingEuropean Science and Society in Transnational Research Infrastructures

通过研究基础设施建设欧洲：在跨国研究基础设施中共同创造欧洲科学与社会

• 批准号: 410412406
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Sebastian Pfotenhauer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/410412406?language=en
• 关键词: Making; Europe; through; its; Research

At present, the European project is widely considered to be in a state of crisis. Citizens express increasing skepticism about the value of transnational collaboration and the European Union appears to struggle in responding to complex problems. At the same time, cross-national scientific collaboration in Europe seems to develop unimpeded. This is noteworthy, as the project of scientific integration so far has proceeded hand in hand with the political and economic integration project that is presently controversial. So far, there has been little research that systematically traces this link between scientific and socio-political integration. We comparatively explore how European integration and European science have influenced each other by looking at four eminent Transnational European Research Infrastructures (TERIs): the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (1954), the European Space Agency (1975), Laserlab Europe (2001), and Biobanking and BioMolecular Research Infrastructure (BBMRI). We will explore how changing imaginations of Europe since World War II affected the foundation, the institutional forms and societal positioning of TERIs. Mobilizing theoretical approaches from Science and Technology Studies, we conceptualize TERIs as sociotechnical machineries of integration that promote broader processes of European integration through relating diverse scientific and socio-political elements to each other. We consider TERIs as shaped by shifting European political visions and practices of integration while simultaneously being relevant actors in the making and stabilizing of Europe. We empirically trace how TERIs by using a comparative multi-method approach to understand how TERIs are not only the result of a changing European society, but also promote specific ideas about Europe at large. By studying the dynamics of European scientific integration, the project potentially also holds lessons for making sense of the complex challenges European political integration confronts today.

目前，欧洲项目被广泛认为处于危机状态。公民们对跨国合作的价值表示越来越怀疑，欧盟似乎在应对复杂问题方面举步维艰。与此同时，欧洲的跨国科学合作似乎发展顺利。这一点值得注意，因为迄今为止，科学一体化项目一直与目前有争议的政治和经济一体化项目齐头并进。到目前为止，几乎没有什么研究系统地追踪科学与社会政治融合之间的这种联系。我们比较探讨欧洲一体化和欧洲科学是如何相互影响的，通过观察四个著名的跨国欧洲研究机构（TERI）：欧洲核研究中心（1954年），欧洲航天局（1975年），欧洲激光实验室（2001年）和生物库和生物分子研究基础设施（BBMRI）。我们将探讨自第二次世界大战以来欧洲不断变化的想象力如何影响TERI的基础，制度形式和社会定位。从科学和技术研究调动理论方法，我们概念化的社会技术一体化的机器，促进欧洲一体化的更广泛的进程，通过相关的不同的科学和社会政治因素相互联系的TERI。我们认为TERI是由不断变化的欧洲政治愿景和一体化实践形成的，同时也是欧洲建设和稳定的相关行为体。我们经验性地跟踪TERI如何使用比较多方法的方法来了解TERI如何不仅是一个不断变化的欧洲社会的结果，而且还促进了对欧洲的具体想法。通过研究欧洲科学一体化的动态，该项目还可能为理解欧洲政治一体化今天面临的复杂挑战提供经验教训。