Keynote: Linden FarrerModerator: Vincent Blok Linden Farrer will cover in his keynote the aims of RRI and how it was implemented in Horizon 2020, including uptake across the different parts of the programme. He will cover the policy challenges that were encountered and the lessons learnt. Finally, he will look towards the operationalisation of RRI as an Read more about Responsible Research and Innovation in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe[…]

Speakers: Peter Biegelbauer, Eileen Focke-Bakker, Katharina Handler, Margit Hofer, Raj Kumar Thapa, Ilse Marschalek, Agnes Szalkai-Lőrincz  In the framework of the EC funded project NewHoRRIzon 19 Social Labs have been established all over Europe to address the diverse topics of the Horizon 2020 Working Programme. A Social Lab is not only a method, but rather a paradigm which is social, experimental and systemic Read more about Session 1: The Social Lab Approach – Experiences from First Hand[…]

Center for Innovation Systems & Policy, Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna, Austria  Peter Biegelbauer is Senior Scientist at the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy of the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. He is the coordinator of the EU project Co-Change (2020-2023) on RRI-related practices and institutional change. He has built the AIT Read more about Peter Biegelbauer[…]

Center for Social Innovation, Austria Margit Hofer is a senior researcher at the ZSI with extensive experience in research and co-ordination alongside of EU projects. Her main research interest include the implication of innovations in education, workplaces and life in general. Over the past years, she has been actively involved in European research projects related to responsible Read more about Margit Hofer[…]

GenØk – Centre for Biosafety, Norway Raj Kumar Thapa is currently engaged with NewHoRRIzon Project (WP Lead: Excellent Science & Social Lab Manager: FET and FOOD Social Labs) Research interest/area: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Responsible Innovation, Social innovation and entrepreneurship, Digital innovation and entrepreneurship.

Center for Social Innovation, Austria Ilse Marschalek is a sociologist with several years of experience in national and international studies. Research fields are inter- and transdisciplinarity, participatory action research and involvement of non-scientific persons into research processes; science communication, participatory evaluation and responsible research and innovation. In the NewHoRRIzon project, she was lab manager, lab Read more about Ilse Marschalek[…]

Agnes Szalkai-Lőrincz is from Budapest, Hungary. She is a translator for a living but in her free time she’s volunteering in a civic society named Knowhere – Energy Efficient Wekerle. We have a thermal camera which can be rented from us at a discount price. Our goal is raising awareness of energy efficiency, of proper external Read more about Agnes Szalkai-Lőrincz[…]

The aim of this session is to increase visibility of ongoing RRI projects and promote exchange between them. In order to deal with the obstacles to physical meetings because of the COVID pandemic, NewHoRRIzon will host a virtual exhibition (RRI.EX) and dedicate a room to posters of ongoing RRI projects. About ten posters will be at display in this room and will remain there during and after the conference.  The poster session will be organized in a Read more about Virtual Poster session[…]

Wageningen University, the Netherlands A senior researcher at Wageningen University, her research contributes to the shaping of technology by means of the enhancement of ethical reflection on its anticipated impacts. Her main fields of interest are: responsible research and innovation, internet of things in farming, ethics of big data, value-sensitive design, ethics of genomics in diagnostics and screening (newborn Read more about Simone van der Burg[…]

University of Novi Sad, Serbia Mila Grahovac is an associate professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad. Although her main field of expertise is phytopathology and biological and other alternative tools for plant disease management, from 2018 she is actively involved in RRI, particularly in gender equality and public engagement in RPO. She Read more about Mila Grahovac[…]