A frequently stated problem is the poor communication of scientific knowledge to other parts of society, including policy-makers, innovators, and citizens (this is not about some 'popular science', but the overall state-of-the-art). Not only does it prevent the implementation of the best available technique in relevant domains, but also makes being a researcher an unpopular career path, makes researchers disconnected from the rest of the world, and reduces available funding to only what is deemed most appropriate according to the other powerful people disconnected from the researchers. The increasingly complex current world and interconnected, ill-defined grand challenges require novel and better ideas, as good as possible methods, the consideration of all available data and information, and a dedication to allocate all required financial, tangible, and human resources to solve them. European Reference Framework for Researchers (a.k.a. ResearchComp) elaborate on these problems in their report oriented towards researchers. Moreover, among sustainable development goals (SDGs)
The status quo here decelerates scientific development and the development of society in general. Scientists are more prone to get too individual even though they utilize the information accumulated by the entire humanity for thousands of years, the tools developed all over the world, the taxes collected through the country they are working from everyone, and indirectly from all people in the world. Prevalence of such behavior in scientists may let others think that this is normal, yet other paths are available almost every day via open source tools, open science activities, and fully and freely accessible scientific knowledge dissemination media. Hence, the fact that scientists are in an ivory tower can be altered for good for the sake of everyone.
FIRE-AE will provide training programs to enhance the researcher's transferable skills and be a role model in creating scientific knowledge for everyone without discrimination. The details of what is being planned by FIRE are on this webpage, especially in Trainer-Enhancer page.
The partners will undoubtedly be researchers, future researchers, funding agencies, scientific output disseminators, trainers, and other relevant people in their cases.
FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti. aims to make scientific research less of a bureaucratic, financial, personal challenge, inequality enhancer entity to more open, encompassing, progressive, agile without compromising the quality and advancement it already brought and likely to bring.
How much impact FIRE has over researchers and society, in general, will be known via the number of researchers and researcher candidates trained, how the training enhanced or changed their skills and ideas, and the number of contracts and funds FIRE generates and provides for open scientific activities.
After the intervention of FIRE, researchers are targeted to be more proactive in policy-development-related communications, science communication to citizens, and the utilization of the best available method and information by others in their expertise. They will also be more versatile when needed, while they can focus on specific problems uninterrupted without being in an ivory tower.
FIRE sees itself as a key player in discovering new information, knowledge, and insight, training scientific researchers, and making high-quality scientific research more accessible and available to all. It will conduct research studies, enhance other researchers' works, fund research directly, and create/provide training/education material. After the enhancement of researchers and research itself, FIRE envisages a more powerful and resilient society that can reach the boundaries of intelligence and go beyond.
