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ELSA and RRI – Editorial

This editorial presents the background for the article collection 'ELSA and RRI'. It sets the stage for the topics discussed in the collection and briefly presents the different contributions. It concludes by opening up for continued discussion of the relations between ELSA and RRI.

Physics at ELSA

Recent experimental results of the Crystal-Barrel/TAPS collaboration at ELSA are presented. The experiments used a tagged photon beam incident on proton and neutron targets. Multiple photon final states were detected in the hermetically closed Crystal Barrel/TAPS detector setup, enabling the reconstruction of various neutral meson production channels. In addition to cross sections also photon b...

Institutionalising ELSA in the moment of breakdown?

This article discusses outcomes of a dialogue conference on 'The road ahead for ELSA in Norway: Issues of quality, influence and network cooperation' held in Oslo in December 2012. Norwegian researchers in the field of ethical, legal and social aspects of technologies (ELSA) were invited to discuss conceptual and strategic issues, as well as the setup of a researcher network. In the article I t...

From ELSA to responsible research and Promisomics

* Correspondence: h.zwart@science. ru.nl Department of Philosophy and Science Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Science, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (ISIS), P.O. Box 9010, 6500, GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Centre for Society and the Life Sciences (CSG), P.O. Box 9010, 6500, GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end o...