The aim of the European Commission's Science and Society Action Plan is to pool efforts at European level to develop stronger and more harmonious relations between science and society. Its objective is to put practice ideas in these debates concerning the links between science and society. To this end, it proposes 38 actions to be undertaken jointly with member States, the regional authorities, scientists, policy-makers, businesses and other stakeholders in civil society. The EU's science and society action plan is very characteristic of Europe, to a large extent, the level of need in the whole of Europe was on the issues of concern to the general public and from different countries are complementary experience. Currently in Europe, the meaning of science and society have far exceeded the often-mentioned “Popular Science”, which areas of research and scope of activities is not only the dissemination of scientific knowledge and universal access to alternative.“The action plan of science and society” of the EU is strongly characterized by Europe, which to a large extent, needs the researches into the public general concerned issue on the whole Europe, and obtains complementary experience from different countries. At present in Europe, the meaning of science and science was far beyond often-mentioned “Popular Science”, whose scope of researches and activities cannot merely be substituted by the dissemination and popularization of scientific knowledge.

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