Project description
Funded by Horizon 2020 (European Commission)
NewHoRRIzon is a project that aims at further integrating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the research and innovation systems on national and international levels. The concept of RRI is an approach which intends to bridge gaps between science, research and innovation communities and society at large by fostering more inclusive, anticipatory, open and responsive research and innovation systems. In this frame, multiple stakeholders (from research, business, policy making, education and civil society) are involved in research and innovation on the project and system level to better align its processes and outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of society. A first big step was the operationalisation of RRI into the following six key elements: ethics, gender equality, governance, public engagement, science education and open access.
Objectives
- foster the integration of RRI into European, national and local Research and Innovation practice and funding
- organise 19 Social Labs and co-create pilot actions and activities and develop narratives and storylines based on the experience from these pilots
- develop and disseminate a concept of Societal Readiness of Technology (= Societal Readiness Levels)
- raise awareness on Responsible Research and Innovation and mainstream RRI best practices and NewHoRRIzon results
- provide results on how to better integrate RRI into the next European Framework Programme
- create a RRI Network including the national funding agencies and develop a RRI community starting with a RRI Ambassadors programme
Social Labs
Click on the Social Labs in the image below to get more information.

Social Lab 1
Social Lab 2
Social Lab 3
Social Lab 4
Social Lab 5
Social Lab 6
Social Lab 7
Social Lab 8
Social Lab 9
Social Lab 10
Social Lab 11
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Social Lab 13
Social Lab 14
Social Lab 15
Social Lab 16
Social Lab 17
Social Lab 18
Social Lab 19
The Social Labs are at the core of the project. Their goal is to provide a socially based, experimental and systematic approach for addressing complex social challenges related to RRI. Each Social Lab is dedicated to a different section of Horizon 2020 (H2020), the current European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (see the image below). For every section of H2020 different stakeholders will gather in a Social Lab to define the social challenges at stake and develop social experiments (= pilot actions and activities) to overcome them. This process will eventually produce storylines and narratives which will be shared as widely as possible to mainstream RRI. If you are interested in participating in a Social Lab, get in touch with us at contact@newhorrizon.eu.
More information on our page What is a social lab?.
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Project consortium

NewHoRRIzon is dedicated to diversity and bridging spheres – starting within the project. The consortium is formed by 1 grassroots organisation, 1 NGO, 4 funding agencies, 7 universities, 3 research & technology organisations and 3 academic research organisations. They are representing 11 countries from Asia, Central & South America and Europe.
They are scholars and practitioners in innovation coming from backgrounds as diverse as:

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NewHoRRizon news
Joining forces for a global 21st century Responsible Research and Innovation Network
As a part of the European Scientific Open Forum 2020, the RRING network, the NewHoRRIzon and the ORION project hosted an interactive online roundtable on “Joining forces for a global network of responsible research and innovation in the 21st century”. The round table was chaired by Dr. Gordon Dalton RRING project coordinator, and the initial Read more about Joining forces for a global 21st century Responsible Research and Innovation Network[…]
Try RRI! A guide for Responsible Research and Innovation
Welcome to our course on Responsible Research and Innovation! It is a Public course which is open for everybody. The course is spread over three weeks with a 3-4 hours training per week and is organised around four modules.
WORKSHOP for the final selection of the Tips&Tricks Cards for Responsible Research & Innovation
Are you familiar with the concept of Responsible Research & Innovation? If your answer is yes, please join us for a special online workshop for the final selection of the Tips & Tricks Cards for the Responsible Research & Innovation.
2nd NewHoRRIzon Cross-Sectional Workshop: Reflect, inspire and find a way forward
Cross-Sectional workshops are one of the elements of the learning cycle of the Social Labs set up in the course of the NewHoRRIzon project. Due to the current pandemic crisis, the project organiser team arranged the 2nd Cross-Sectional workshop virtually. The meeting mainly consisted of different live sessions, fostering as much as possible interactivity, and Read more about 2nd NewHoRRIzon Cross-Sectional Workshop: Reflect, inspire and find a way forward[…]
Fourth NewHoRRIzon Policy Brief
The NewHoRRIzon project published its fourth policy brief in November 2020, authored by Stefan de Jong, Wouter van de Klippe, Tung Tung Chan, André Brasil and Ingeborg Meijer.
Pilot Action 2: RRI Education
This pilot action addresses younger children at the age of kindergarten and primary education as well as teenagers. The second workshop of the social lab 15 took place at the premises of one of the pilot hosts, the Trnovo kindergarten in Ljubljana.
Success Story: New HoRRIzon – adopting the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation
The latest success story from the Science with and for Society programme has been published in the form of a very interesting interview with Erich Griessler, the coordinator of New HoRRIzon.
Social Lab 11 – Workshop 3
The final workshop of Social Lab 11 took place in mid-February 2020 in Berlin. The workshop presented an opportunity to reflect on the processes of the different pilot actions, and to consider a future course of action.
Third NewHoRRIzon Policy Brief
The NewHoRRIzon project published its third Policy Brief which deals with similarities and differences of responsibility of research and innovation as applied in India and in the EU.
Social Lab 19 – Workshop 3
On November 19th and 20th, 2019 the third and final workshop of the Social Lab EURATOM took place in Warsaw, Poland. For this workshop, the Social Lab team aimed for focussing on reflection and mutual learning amongst the participants.