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participation by making explicit what it would mean to use
different approaches within these different cultural and
organisational settings. Finally, the ARGONA partners will
develop guidelines for the application of novel approaches
that will enhance real progress in nuclear waste
management programmes.
Improving stakeholder participation
The ARGONA project will map policy-making structures
within EU and in the participating countries and clarify the
roles of deliberative and transparency approaches in policymaking
structures. It will test a number of approaches to
stakeholder participation within the system currently
established in the Czech Republic. The project will
disseminate good risk communication techniques and
strategies across national borders and develop a framework
for how behavioural sciences findings and more technical
approaches can be integrated in risk communication
strategies.
More public involvement
for better decision-making
ARGONA will improve the knowledge of how different
approaches to stakeholder participation can enhance
public engagement and involvement. It will increase the
awareness among decision-makers and other stakeholders
of the roles of ‘mediators’ of public participation methods,
so that their advice can be effectively reviewed before
appropriate participation methods are implemented.
The project will also disseminate the resulting ARGONA
approaches and findings to other ‘controversial’ policymaking
areas, such as biotechnology, the oil industry and
other energy-related areas.
Public events
The results of the ARGONA project may be presented at the
Euradwaste conference in October 2008.
MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE
Geological disposal
Coordinator
Josefin Päiviö Jonsson
Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate
Klarabergsviadukten 90
S-106 58 Stockholm
Tel. (46-8) 698 84 00
Fax (46-8) 661 90 86
josefin.p.jonsson@ski.se
www.argonaproject.eu
Project details
Project type: Specific Targeted Research Project
Project start date: 01/11/2006
Duration: 36 months
Total budget: EUR 1 857 410
EC contribution: EUR 1 200 000
EC Project Officer: Christophe Davies
European Commission
Directorate-General for Research
Unit J. 2 – Fission
CDMA 1/61
B-1049 Brussels
Tel. (32-2) 296 16 70
Fax (32-2) 295 49 91
Partners
Karita Research AB, Management, SE
Göteborg University, SE
Nuclear Research Institute ŘeŽ plc (NRI), CZ
University of Tampere, FI
DECONTA, SK
SCK•CEN, BE
University of Lancaster, UK
RAWRA, CZ
Stockholm University, SE
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, NL
Galson Sciences Ltd, UK
University of Stavanger, NO
Wenergy AB, SE
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