Making sense of science in the 21st Century – trust, repair, dialogue, and engagement

Available at https://policylabs.frontiersin.org/content/commentary-making-sense-of-science-in-the-21st-century-trust-repair-dialogue-and-engagementWe live in a time of significant global challenges.The term polycrisis has emerged as we face wide-reaching and impactful issues such as the climate, war and conflict, and health.To address these challenges, we will need political will, global collaboration, inter-multi-and transdisciplinary approaches, systems thinking and scientific breakthroughs at scale.Science and scientists have an important role to play as societies tackle these challenges and lay foundations for actions that will direct the course of the future.It is possible to argue that science that engages effectively with society will depend on the sharing, uptake and accessibility of scientific knowledge and insight, but also on the way that science is designed and co-designed in ways that reflect excellence and the aspirations and expectations of societies.