Excellent Paper Award 2024 by the ECPR Standing Group on Knowledge Politics & Policies

From the Standing Group on Knowledge Politics and Policies

It is our great pleasure to announce that the jury comprising Tatiana Fumasoli (University College London, UK), Emanuela Reale (IRCRES NRC, Italy), and Kieron Flanagan (University of Manchester, UK) has decided to award the 2024 Excellent Paper Award by the ECPR Standing Group on Knowledge Politics and Policies to Anna-Lena Rülandfrom the University College London (UK) for her paper titled 'We need a CERN for AI': Organized scientific interests and agenda-setting in European science, technology, and innovation policy.

In the view of the jury, the paper presents an in-depth case study of the CERN for AI initiative to shed light on the role of organized scientific interests in European STI agenda-setting. The manuscript is very informative on the lobbying strategies and process of interactions in the case analyzed. The analytical framework is constructed well and the methodological approach and analysis of whether and how prominent ideas make it onto the formal political agenda.

The paper has been recently published in Minerva, and you can read it open access here [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-024-09568-6].

Anna-Lena Rüland is a research fellow with the European Research Council-funded project “Addressing Global Challenges through International Scientific Consortia” at the University College London Global Business School for Health. She graduated with a PhD in science policy from Leiden University (Netherlands) in July 2024 and currently conducts research on science diplomacy, research security, as well as science, technology and innovation policy.