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Informed Consent Road-STEAMer Project (European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme - HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-70 – Project N° 101058405) - Participation in the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite

This informed consent sheet explains the further processing of your data and information provided in the research process and documents your rights.

Acceptance

Accessing and using the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite you accept to take part in Road-STEAMer research project since in order to carry out the outcomes of the project we need to collect the opinion and information provided by different stakeholders among which you are.

Description of the Project

The overall aim of the EU-funded Road-STEAMer project (funded under the programme Horizon Europe under grant agreement #101058405) is to develop a STEAM roadmap for science education in Horizon Europe, i.e. a plan of actions that will provide guidance to EU's key funding programme for research and innovation on how to encourage more interest in STEM through the use of artistic approaches involving creative thinking and applied arts (the “A” in “STEAM”).

You can find more information about Road-STEAMer on the project website www.road-steamer.eu. 

The service “Road-STEAMer CoP Suite” is provided within the “Road-STEAMer” project. The project team is composed by the following entities:

• The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness Asbl
• Ellinogermaniki Agogi Scholipanagea Savva Ae
• Association Europeenne Desexpositions Scientifiques Techniqueset Industrielles
• Association Traces Theories Etreflexions Sur L Apprendre Lacommunication Et L Educationscientifiques
• Universita Ta Malta
• Politecnico Di Milano
• Ellinikh Enosh Dhmosiografon Episthmhs, Syggrafeon Episthmhs Kai Eikoinoniologon Episthmhs Astiki Etaireia
• Zentrum Fur Soziale Innovation Gmbh
• Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
• Panteio Panepistimio Koinonikonkaipolitikon Epistimon
• European School Heads Association
• The University Of Exeter

Your participation

The use and participation on the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite is voluntary and if you agree to take part in the project, you will be asked to agree with this participant’s consent according to GDPR Article 6.1.a. As a volunteer, you can stop your participation at any time. This agreement enters into force as soon as you use the service for the first time and then remains in force until the end of Road-STEAMer project (see section “Use of Service”) or until you decide to delete your account. If you wish to terminate this agreement and your account on Road-STEAMer CoP Suite, you have just to delete your account; stored information such as name, nickname, mail, password will be also removed from the database and platform, whereas opinions and comments will be anonymised.

Road-STEAMer CoP Suite

The Road-STEAMer CoP Suite is a web-based open-source set of tools to support on-line interaction, dialogue, collaboration, and participation among RoadSTEAMer Community members, offering a virtual environment where issues, needs and ideas can be explored and discussed through a co-creation-driven approach.

Through the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite, the users will be able to perform participatory activities, interact and discuss about topics, challenges and ideas.

Kind of Data collected

The application collects the following information: name, nickname, mail, password and opinion as you participate in different debates and blogs.

Use of service

The service Road-STEAMer CoP Suite allows you to create a profile, share contents, participate in online discussions, present proposals, vote on proposals, and engage and interact with other users.

To use the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite, you need to sign up first. By signing into the service, you agree that proposals and comments submitted by you may be published under your name, and text written by you may be edited or deleted by moderators, if it is deemed to be abusive or inappropriate.

Your personal data is not disclosed to external parties or used for other purposes than the usage of the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite service itself and for the purposes of the Road-STEAMer project.

You have to assure that no one else can access your account using your credentials.

You have to keep the password strictly confidential.

Road-STEAMer CoP Suite processes your personal data. Using this service, you give your consent for processing your data within the scope of the Road-STEAMer project.

Road-STEAMer CoP Suite will be kept accessible for the entire duration of the Road-STEAMer project (that at the moment is by 31st August 2025).

At the end of the Road-STEAMer project, the service Road-STEAMer CoP Suite will cease. Information and personal data will be kept for the purposes of research and presentation of the Road-STEAMer project, as well as for further research that may be conducted based on the Road-STEAMer project, for a period of no longer than 5 years after the completion of the Road-STEAMer project.

Terms of use

Your access to Road-STEAMer CoP Suite services entails that you have read, understood, and agreed these terms and conditions. Accessing or using any service of the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite also means that you have the legal authority to accept its Terms on behalf of yourself and of any party you represent. If you do not agree to the Terms, you are not authorised to use any of the Services provided by the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite.

All users have the full responsibility for their own writings and for the contents they provide.

It is not permitted to use Road-STEAMer CoP Suite for any illegal purpose or in violation of any local, national or international law. In any case, any abuse will remain under the direct responsibility of the user.

The messages sent to the service must observe good manners of discussion and be relevant to the topic of the discussion. Inappropriate or unlawful messages and text will be deleted. Examples of inappropriate or unlawful messages are those that:

• Include user’s personal information.
• Violate the privacy of third party, for example by distributing its personal data without permission
• Harass third parties with repeated and unwanted communications.
• Post or transmit content that is harmful, offensive, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, hateful, discriminatory, defamatory, false or misleading.
• Include swearing or vulgar language.
• Make identifiable oneself or any other party.

Comments and contents are not checked in advance before they become public. You can report an inappropriate message by using the Flag symbol.

Road-STEAMer CoP Suite’s moderators and/or administrators have the rights to delete reported comments and/or contents that violate the terms of use.

Data Breach

The consortium will do its best to protect people's information (or privacy), despite everything mistakes can happen. We appreciate it if you contact us as soon as possible, in case you detect a security problem, we'll solve it in the shortest time and with the least possible damage.

Supervision

Road-STEAMer project appointed an Ethics Committee for the project. You can contact The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness Asbl at [email protected] . The team will gladly answer all your questions on Data Protection and the Ethics Code applied in the Road-STEAMer project.

Data Controller

The data controllers for the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite is The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness Asbl that must guarantee the security in the treatment of these under the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Contact:

The Lisbon Council asbl

IPC-Résidence Palace

155 rue de la Loi

1040 Brussels, Belgium

info [@] lisboncouncil.net

Your rights

You are always free to not answer a specific question or leave without any consequences. If you would like to address a question or an issue, please feel free to do so. Furthermore, you shall have the right to access, to rectify, to erase, to restrict the processing, the right to data portability and the right to object, as granted in GDPR Article 15 -22. You can also withdraw the consent given by agreeing this agreement at any time according to GDPR Article 6(1) without any consequences. Upon request your local supervisory authority will provide you information on exercising your right according to Article 57(e) GDPR.

Usage of your Data

The data shared on the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite will only be used for the activities relating to Road-STEAMer. This includes the processing for research purposes and dissemination activities. Your data will under no circumstances be sold to any third party.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a collection of information, stored on the local computer of a person when uses a web navigator The cookies used are functional and are necessary for the proper functioning of the platform. These cookies do not collect personal information.

The Road-STEAMer CoP Suite uses the following required cookies:

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Cookies are stored into the user’s device browser. In any case, you can always configure the browser of your device, avoiding the storage of any type of cookies, including functional ones. Consult the specific information of your browser to know how to do it. Please note that this may affect your experience on the website.

Dissemination of Results

The data generated will be used for research purposes and dissemination. This includes publications, and the creation of a report on impact analysis, lessons learned and recommendations for any public administration aiming at using similar disruptive technologies.

Changes to terms

These Terms and Conditions of Use are subject to updates in compliance with legal or regulatory provisions. They can include changes, removals or additions to the Terms.

Any changes to the Terms and Conditions reported will be notified to all registered users and their acceptance will be requested at the first new access to Road-STEAMer CoP Suite.

If you do not want to accept a change or addition, you can terminate the agreement before the date the change takes effect. The use of Road-STEAMer CoP Suite after the date of effect shall constitute your acceptance of the changes to terms and conditions and therefore your agree with those changes.

After having stated these general conditions and rules, we are looking forward to a good cooperation and positive project results. We would like to thank you in advance for your participation in the project.

The access to the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite shall imply your understanding and consent to the conditions and rules stated in this document. Accessing and using the Road-STEAMer CoP Suite you release Road-STEAMer project and any of its associated or affiliated institutions, their directors, officers, agents, employees and customers from all claims of every kind on account of such use.