Objectives
- To develop and introduce new governance practices to foster Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
- To set up new governance practices to co-design transdiciplinary RRI-projects that are attuned to local needs, values and opportunities and that connect and mobilise local stakeholders
- To build on capacity with respect to collaborative agenda-setting on the level of research performing organisations
Activities
- Synthesis reporting of research and innovation systems (practice, barriers) and potential levers within 5 partner countries
- Establishing of Knowledge Arenas, and Business model for them, and alternative funding and evaluation methods for RRI projects and solutions
- Investigating of the state-of-the-art of research and innovation systems in European knowledge economies
- Designing of Co-RRI Knowledge Arena and a Co-RRI web based platform
- Establishing local/regional transition – knowledge arenas in order to develop Co-RRI project concepts through a multi-actor exercise involving research, civil society, policy, and the business sectors
- Drafting policy recommendations and materials for fostering co-RRI uptake
Results
- Concepts for co-RRI-projects: which describes the local/regional problem definition of the global challenge, the systemic analysis of causes of and reasons for the challenges, the projected potential solution, the co-RRI project concept
- Established co-RRI knowledge arenas and developed business model for their functioning
- Reports on Policy recommendations for co-RRI in the EU
- Materials for fostering uptake of co-RRI and future of RRI in EU
Partners
- VITO – Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V. (Belgium, coordinator)
- LGI Consulting SARL (France)
- ESSRG – The Environmental Social Science Research Group (Hungary)
- UCM – Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
- ERRIN – European Regions Research and Innovation Network (Belgium)
- IFZ – Interuniversitäre Forschungszentrum für Technik, Arbeit und Kultur (Austria)
- CESIE (Italy)
