Network technology assessment
The network technology assessment (TA network, NTA) is a scientific association of German scientists, experts and practitioners from Germany, Switzerland and Austria in the broadly understood topic of Technology Assessment / Technology Assessment (TA). This group is made up of the (partly overlapping) areas of technology assessment, practical ethics , systems analysis , risk research, technology design for sustainable development , innovation, institutional and technology analysis , innovation and future research and the scientific disciplines involved from nature, technology and , Economics and social sciences, politics and law as well as philosophy.
history
The TA network was founded on November 24, 2004 in Berlin by around 80 researchers and practitioners at a conference (NTA1). This was initiated by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis ( ITAS ) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . The German BMBF funded the first two NTA conferences. On the occasion of the 5th annual meeting in Berlin in November 2009, the network was extended for a further five years. It now has over 250 members.
activities
The TA network organizes annual meetings and a larger conference every two years and is partly organized in thematic working groups that meet online and offline. The conferences were commented on in various specialist newsletters and journals. In addition, a proceedings volume is published for each of these conferences in which the main results are recorded. Furthermore, the NTA leads under the leadership of ITAS which the BMBF -funded doctoral project "TRANSDISS" by whose goal is in a series of workshops TA-related PhD projects in relation to their "transdisciplinary" shares to accompany.
The network comprises a large part of the German-speaking community of technology assessors in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, including the European Academy Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler , the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research and the Office for Technology Assessment at the German_Bundestag at the German Bundestag and reaches over his email discussion list also attracted a large number of interested parties.
aims
The main goal of the network is to improve cooperation between institutions that advise politicians on technology assessment (TA) or conduct scientific technology assessment. In addition, research results from the areas relevant to technology assessment should be exchanged and joint research projects developed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Conference program NTA1
- ↑ ITAS press release of November 25, 2004 ; Report to Heise online
- ↑ TATuP Dec. 2009, p. 119 ; ITA-News 12/09, p. 8f
- ↑ Directory of Members
- ↑ http://www.openta.net/kalender
- ↑ ITA News 6/08, p. 2ff. ; TATuP Dec. 2006, p. 132ff. ; ITA-News 12/06, p. 5f.
- ↑ Proceedings tape for NTA1 ; Proceedings volume on NTA2
- ↑ http://www.itas.kit.edu/projekte_deck08_transdiss.php
- ^ Message from the Karlsruhe Research Center at uni-protocol.de