Synergy '22

Programme

13.00 - 13.30 Welcome & registration
13.30 - 14.15 

Plenary opening: Synergy Café

Joining you at your table around the central stage are professionals from the research and education sector, government, Dutch Top Sectors, and social partners. Keynote speaker, dr. Bernice Bovenkerk (WUR) en prof. dr. Tom van der Meer (UVA), will open Synergy ’22. They have been invited to take a stand based on their vision and to offer challenging questions to the audience. Perspectives will be shared and collected at every table. A great opportunity to share your ideas and get to know your peers!

Tom van der Meer, professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, will challenge participants to find the dividing line between scepticism and distrust. Is (too) much confidence in institutions desirable? How can we ensure that society displays a healthy scepticism towards authority, without lapsing into blind distrust? A perfect question for the theme 'Building Trust'.

Bernice Bovenkerk, associate professor of Philosophy at Wageningen University & Research, would like to ask participants to what extent science should be coloured by activism. Do activism and research go hand in hand, or is there a limit? And if so, where do we draw the line? How do you act as a professional among competing visions of how science should interact with society? The answers to these questions fit perfectly with the theme 'Building Impact'.

14.30 - 16.30 Breakout sessions
16.30 - 17.00 Plenary closing and presentation of the Synergy award
17.00 - 18.00 Drinks: Closing & Drinks


On the parade square you can meet other participants, visit the silent disco with podcasts, have a poet write an impactful poem about your research and have a snack and drink.

Breakout sessions

Programma - Building impact

First aid for grant applications: how to increase my chances of success?

PrACTical Knowledge

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:30 uur

Working across the Atlantic: research collaboration in the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Studio Talk

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:30 uur

Development (digital) SSH infrastructure strategy

Debate Café

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:30 uur

Societal impact, are you part of the process?!

PrACTical Knowledge

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:30 uur

Panl - reaching people in the Netherlands

Debate Café

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:30 uur

Co-creation for societal impact

Debate Café

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:30 uur

Building impact with digital technologies: advanced approaches to the Social Sciences and Humanities

Insights

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:00 uur

Greater than the sum of its parts? Interdisciplinary collaboration in practice

Studio Talk

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:30 uur

Hybrid work and positive influences from leisure activities to work: developing an intervention tool

Other

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:30 uur

Making play out of work?!

PrACTical Knowledge

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:30 uur

Collectively reflecting on 'giving back' in social science and humanities

Debate Café

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:30 uur

Want a good conversation? Initiating dialogue between scientists and non-scientists

Insights

donderdag 16 juni
16:00 - 16:15 uur

Programma - Building trust

Policy responsiveness in national and European Union parliaments: analysing partisan preferences in multilevel settings from political speech

Insights

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:00 uur

Towards a more diverse and inclusive SSH community

PrACTical Knowledge

donderdag 16 juni
14:45 - 15:30 uur

In the EU We Trust?: how the European Union responds to public opinion in the Netherlands and beyond

Insights

donderdag 16 juni
15:00 - 15:15 uur

Changes and continuities in political (dis)trust: a Dutch citizens' perspective (2010-2022)

Insights

donderdag 16 juni
15:15 - 15:30 uur

The ethics of engineering: should you take up a job with Facebook?

Debate Café

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:30 uur

Experience and context: doing justice to different perspectives

PrACTical Knowledge

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:30 uur

What to ask? Building trust by enabling your audience to ask better questions about the science you'll present

PrACTical Knowledge

donderdag 16 juni
15:45 - 16:30 uur


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