Science and technology culture is now more than ever at the very heart of the social project, and all countries, to varying degrees, participate in it: raising scientific literacy, improving the image of the sciences, involving the public in debates and encouraging the young to pursue careers in the sciences. Thus, the very destiny of any society is now entwined with its ability to develop a genuine science and technology culture, accessible for participation not only to the few who, by virtue of their training or trade, work in the science and technology fields, but to all, thereby creating occasions for society to debate and to foster a positive dialogue about the directions of change and future choices.

Communicating science: heterogeneous, multiform and polysemic.- Citizen science as participatory science communication.- Science communication on offer by research institutes in eight countries.- Attempts to categorize and evaluate science festivals, a 30-year-old science communication event: the case of Greece.- Emerging practices in science communication in Canada- Meeting the needs of society: experiences from practices at the science-society interface.- Science communication in Nigeria and South Africa: beliefs, social groups and the social space of science.- The cultural distance model: empirical evidence from India.- Science culture: a critical and international outlook.- Cultural differences in media framing of AI.- Segmentation disparities in scientific experts' knowledge of and attitudes towards GMOs in China- Responsible research and innovation in China and the risks in innovation.- Exploring emerging public attitudes towards autonomous vehicles.- The evolution of scientific,technical and industrial culture in France.- Emerging practices based on new media in the Chinese science popularization industry: transformation in the new era of science communication.- Science communication in the new era: skills education at science and technology museums.- Science museums: the Brazilian case.