PACITA: Scenario workshop “Teleassistance in ageing societies” (Spring-Summer 2014): National Report Wallonia

PACITA (Parliaments and civil society in Technology Assessment) has been a four-year EU financed project under FP7 aimed at increasing the capacity and enhancing the institutional foundation for knowledge-based policy-making on issues involving science, technology and innovation, mainly based upon the diversity of practices in Parliamentary Technology Assessment (PTA). The key practices in focus have been interactive in the sense that they engaged science, civil society organizations, stakeholders, citizens, parliaments and/or governments directly in the activities in order to activate different kinds of knowledge, engage the actors, create common ownership to the results and enhance the communication between the societal actors.