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Science & Society
Last update on: 01/20/2009
The result of the 2005 conducted Eurobarometer Studies (download as PDF) concerning science and society within Eu countries suggested that:
- respectively a third of the inquired did not understand or was not interested in scientific questions,
- further reasons for the disinterest in science and technology were cited as age of the inquired, lack of time and lack of relevance within their personal life
Why are they not interested in science and technology in particular?
Figure: The reasons for the disinterest of the European citizens in scientific topics according to the Eurobarometer conducted in 2005.
The study published by the European Commission in 2005 is available via mouse click PDF
The web portal "Science in Society" was developed with the aim to fascinate EU citizens for scientific topics and make findings of research publically accessible.
The direct usage of research very often remains inaccessible to the European citizens. As the breakthrough of a research project is very often the product of several complex partial results, it is specifically difficult to explain the logic of medicine based upon findings and the meaningfulness of funding many, amongst which some very costly, partial projects.
