Organizers: Robert Gianni; Darian Meacham; Dani Shanley   H2020 allocated a strong role to ethics by adopting mandatory standards and implementing a cross-cutting strategy named Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).  Some of the strengths of RRI are exemplified by its attempt to empower stakeholders and to increase awareness about ethical issues across different domains. RRI has, nonetheless, encountered criticism due Read more about Session 7: H2020 to Horizon Europe: from ethical guidelines to democratic practices[…]

Speakers: Erik Fisher, Erich Griessler, Anne Loeber, René von Schomberg, Martina Schraudner, April Tash, Fern Wickson In this session we will look back on the two week conference experience and dive into the overarching question, “How can the pilot actions developed in NewHoRRIzon, as well as the Social Lab activities and the networks generated, help promote the idea of Responsible Research and Innovation and related concepts on national and international level as well as in different institutions?” phrased more directly, we want Read more about Closing Session: Roundtable – Reflecting backwards so we can look forward[…]

Organisers: Veikko Ikonen, Mika NieminenSpeakers: Olavi Kujanpää, Lukáš Macenauer, Ülle Must, Nhien Nguyen, Tiina Ramstedt-Sen, Emad Yaghmaei Funding agencies evaluate and assess in various ways the research and innovation they are funding. Criteria may vary, for instance, depending on the context (discipline and research objective), policy (the role of the funding agency in a research system and its specific policy targets) and funding instrument (e.g. application oriented vs. curiosity oriented vs. mission oriented). Besides Read more about Session 12: The role of research funding organizations to support the uptake of RRI: Building a RRI-based evaluation framework for research funding agencies – mission possible?[…]

Organiser: Erich GriesslerSpeakers: Stephanie Daimer, Jack Spaapen, Roger Strand, Michalis TzatzanisModerator: Susanne Meissner-Dragosits Jack Spaapen, Roger Strand: “The Times, Are They a-Changin’?”  Spirits rise with new opportunities and funding programmes, and hearts sink as they fade away. For friends of RRI, such as ourselves, there are always tempests in the teapot: post-ELSI manifestos, RRI funerals and the scare of SwafS disappearing, to mention a few. At Read more about Session 9: The future of RRI – Policy and RRI in times of political turbulence[…]

Organised by Susanne Bührer The topic of impact is high on the agenda of national and European research policy. Research funders, as well as research organizations and individual researchers, are increasingly asking themselves what contribution science can or should make to politics, society, culture and the economy. This is often discussed under the heading of the Read more about Session 4: The (transformative) impact of RRI[…]

Organiser: Erich GriesslerSpeakers: Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Jens Ørding Hansen, Petar Vrgovic, Mila Grahovac, Elisabeth Frankus, Anne Loeber Changing the way how research and innovation is organized and funded and how researchers are trained and incentivized will be critical for the long-term implementation of RRI. But institutions are not easily changed. They are complex, inert and tend to hold on to habituated routines which proved sufficiently successful Read more about Session 10: RRI and institutional change[…]

Speakers: Bjørn Bedsted, Blanca Guasch, Jill Jäger, Jonas Krebs, Cristina Luís, Anna Olsson, Ines VaittinenOrganisers: Joshua Cohen, Anne Loeber, Malene Vinther Christensen, Ulrike Wunderle The urgency and relevance of engaging citizens in research and innovation is widely acknowledged. In EC R&I funding policies and in many universities’ ethical guidelines there is a call for public Read more about Session 2: Engaging stakeholders in research practice: the how & why of co-creation[…]