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[…]

In this session, we identify conceptual and practical connections between Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and sustainability transitions. Our guiding question is what the research communities and the communities of practice representing and developing those themes can learn from each other.