23-09-2014
The editors and authors of the 6 volumes book series Making Europe: Technology and Transformations, 1850-2000, were awarded the Freeman Prize of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). Professor Maria Paula Diogo, from FCT-UNL Department of Applied Social Sciences, co-authors with Dirk van Lack (University of Giessen) volume 6, entitled Globalizing Europeans: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging (in press, 2015). This prize is also awarded to the authors’ and editors’ institutions, in this case to FCT- UNL and to the research center CIUHCT. The series' editors are Johan Schot (University of Eindhoven / University of Sussex) and Phil Scranton (Rutgers University) and the publisher is Palgrave Macmillan.
The Freeman award is made to "a publication, which is a significant collective contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation. Selection will be based on the successful development of social approaches to the dynamics of innovation, originality, and better understanding of the pursuit of innovation for societal and environmental goals."
