Time4CS
Time4CS is an EU funded project, launched in January 2021, that aims to support institutional changes that promote Citizen Science in Research Performing Organisations (RPOs). To facilitate this process, TIME4CS has identified 4 Intervention Areas that alone or combined can stimulate the institutional changes necessary to promote public engagement in R&I activities: Research; Education and Awareness; Support resources and Infrastructure; Policy and Assessment.
In this framework, three expert organisations in the field of Citizen Science (Front-Runners) – University College London, Aarhus University, and the Competence Center of the University of Zurich – are working side by side with four implementing organisations (Implementers) willing to foster Citizen Science in their institutions – Tyndall National Institute at the University College Cork, Kaunas University of Technology, Center for Genomic Regulation, and Università San Raffaele. Two organisations act as Facilitators and accompany the partners through the different phases of the project – Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE) and the European Science Foundation.
The first year of the project is dedicated to planning, co-designing and co-creating grounding actions in Citizen Science for the implementing RPOs, whereas the second year will be dedicated to their implementation, and the third year will focus on their sustainability.
Project duration: January 2021 – December 2023
Project lead: APRE – Agenzia Per La Promozione Della Ricerca Europea (Italy)
Website: https://www.time4cs.eu/
GRRIP
Grounding RRI Practices in Research Performing Organisations
GRRIP is working on embedding sustainable Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI practices) in 4 research performing organisations (RPO) and 1 dual-function RPO and research funding organisation (RPO/RFO) (total 5 RPO&RFO) in the marine and maritime sectors to achieve institutional and cultural change.
Project duration: January 2019 – December 2022
Project lead: CONSORCIO PARA EL DISENO, CONSTRUCCION, EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DE LA PLATAFORMA OCEANICA DE CANARIAS
Website: https://grrip.eu
GEARING ROLES
Gender Equality Actions in Research Institutions to traNsform Gender ROLES (GEARING-Roles) is a strong multidisciplinary consortium of 10 European academic and non-academic partners that will design, implement, and evaluate 6 Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) following the steps described in the GEAR tool (define, plan, act and check) with the firm objective of challenging and transforming gender roles and identities linked to professional careers, and work towards real institutional change.
Project duration: January 2019 – December 2022
Project lead: University of Deusto (Spain)
Website: gearingroles.eu
Resbios Aims
ResBios will embed Responsible Research and Innovation practices within four universities and research institutions in the field of Biosciences in 4 European countries, through the implementation of RRI Grounding Actions, to achieve sustainable institutional changes. The Grounding Actions will relate to RRI keys, they will dialogue with the MoRRI indicators and will be aligned with Sustainable Development Goals. The project is focused on the biosciences sector which is one of the crossroads in the relations between science and society and it is building upon the EU project StarBios2, which ran between 2016 and 2020, setting the scene for transformative practices and tested interventions aligned with these new science policy Frameworks.
Project duration: January 2020 – December 2022
Project lead: University of Gdańsk, Uniwersytet Gdański (Polen)
Website: resbios.eu
ROSiE
ROSiE is a three-year project funded by HORIZON2020. Its mission is to co-create with all related stakeholders novel practical tools to foster a responsible open science and citizen science. A consultation and stakeholder engagement through workshops and discussions with the Stakeholder Forum; creating and facilitating a community of practice to gather knowledge on Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Open Science from other European projects. ROSiE partners will reach out the research community and policy-makers, in order to co-create with them novel practices in the design, the preparation, the making, the valorization and the evaluation of science.
Project duration: March 2021 – February 2024
Project lead: University of Oslo
Website: rosie-project.eu
Co-Change
The EU-funded Co-Change project will apply an innovative systemic approach to boost the transformative capacity and leadership for responsible research through change labs. The project activates change coalitions around each lab, paying particular attention to interactions and dependencies of actors in each Research and Innovation (R&I) ecosystem, since research performing (RPOs) and research funding (RFOs) organisations co-evolve in and with the R&I ecosystems they are embedded in.
Project duration: February 2020 – January 2023
Project lead: AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Austria)
Website: cochangeproject.eu
Super MoRRI
Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI
Responsible research and innovation (RRI) policies aim to support processes of transformation of the R&I system through better alignment with societal values, needs and concerns, and by encouraging societal actors to work together during the whole research and innovation cycle.
SUPER MoRRI will…
- establish an RRI indicator hub drawing in data streams from a connected network of projects, and creating a user-friendly, interactive dashboard, which will provide easy access for multiple stakeholders and allow for selective extraction of data based on user needs and interests.
- take a co-creation approach by involving a range of stakeholders for exploring, developing, testing, and validating and RRI self-assessment practice;
- interaction with international partners beyond Europe
Project duration: January 2019 – December 2023
Project lead: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Germany)
Website: super-morri.eu
TeRRIFICA
Adapting to climate change means anticipating adverse effects to prevent or minimise damage, or taking advantage of opportunities that may arise. The EU-funded TeRRIFICA project will review the state of the art in climate change adjustment models, policies and strategies. The purpose is to examine approaches to climate action, climate change adaptation and and climate change mitigation in central, south, east and west Europe, in urban and rural areas as well as in EU and non-EU regions. Applying Living Lab strategies, crowd-mapping and co-creation activities, citizens, local authorities and experts will be integrated as partners to develop and coordinate adaptation processes. The key policies of RRI will be considered to address Sustainable Development Goals. TeRRIFICA will set up customised guides and key performance indicators for climate change adjustment exercises.
Project duration: January 2019 – June 2022
Project lead: Bonn Science Shop (WILA Bonn)
Website: terrifica.eu
Gender-SMART
Gender-SMART relates to the Topic SwafS-09-2018-2019, which reflects the Communication “A Reinforced European Research Area: Partnership for Excellence and Growth”, inviting RPO and RFO to implement Gender Equality Plans (GEP). It draws upon The Council Conclusions on Advancing gender equality in the ERA. Adopted in 2015, those reiterate the need to foster sustainable cultural and institutional change in the ERA.
Gender-SMART fully subscribes to the content of these recommendations. The core of Gender-SMART is about implementing GEPs in 7 RPO and RFO. These GEPs are conceptualized as drivers for institutional challenges to remove barriers to the recruitment, retention and career progression of female researchers; to address gender imbalances in decision-making processes and to strengthen the gender dimension in research and education. Gender-SMART understands these challenges as an integral part of the broader issue of Responsible Research and Innovation. It aims at developing practice-oriented and participatory knowledge to support GEPs design and implementation. At the same time, the project will contribute to the strengthening of a Community of Practitioners in the field of institutional change for RRI in Europe and beyond. To that regard, it will collaborate actively with the EU funded structural change projects and projects beyond EU with the same objective.
Project duration: January 2019 – December 2022
Website: gender-smart.eu
Trust
Reinvigorating trust in the data market
In recent years, the data market has been flourishing. A sharp downfall in trust towards platforms considered secure and privacy-aware, however, has hampered the market. This lack of trust has hit the data economy hard by limiting its resources to open data. This downfall is likely to continue if technical standards are not adopted. The EU-funded TRUSTS project aims to reinstate trust previously placed in the data market by developing a new platform using the experiences of two large national projects while also allowing the future introduction of newer platforms. The project plans to use this platform as a platform federator and start a thorough investigation into the ethics of the data market.
Project duration: January 2020 – December 2022
Project lead: Gottfried Wilhelm Leipniz University Hannover (Germany)
Website: trust-project.eu
SOPs4RI
SOPs4RI (Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity) is a four-year (2019-2022), multi-partner project funded by the European Commission. SOPs4RI aims to stimulate transformational processes across European Research Performing Organisations and Research Funding Organisations (RPOs and RFOs). SOPs4RI will deliver an online, freely accessible and easy-to-use ‘toolbox’ that can help RPOs and RFOs cultivate research integrity and reduce detrimental practice. SOPs4RI will establish an inventory of relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Guidelines that RPOs and RFOs can draw on when developing governance arrangements promoting strong research integrity cultures.
Project duration: January 2019 – December 2022
Project lead: Aarhus University
Website: sops4ri.eu
TetRRIS
Territorial Responsible Research and Innovation and Smart Specialisation
TetRRIS takes 4 regions/territories, their policymakers and stakeholders, on a journey through pilot experiments in Responsible Research and Innovation and Smart Specialisation. For tetRRIS, four pilot regions Tampere (FI); Karlsruhe (DE), Cantabria (ES), Szeged-Timisoara (RO/HU) have been selected and are central to the scientific research and associated policy recommendations seeking to address societal challenges at the local level.
In a nutshell, as theoretically the pilot regions are the space where R&I activities produce actual innovation, the project will support its pilot regions to make RRI integration possible within R&I territorial governance (Smart Specialisation). Overall, this approach aiming to ready regions for RRI integration in their TRISs, will be replicable and replicated to actors wider than the project regions through awareness raising and policy recommendations.”
Project duration: September 2020 – August 2023
Project lead: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (Finland)
Website: tetrris.eu
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Project lead: FUNDACION BANCARIA CAIXA D’ESTALVISI PENSIONS DE BARCELONA LA CAIXA (Spain)
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| This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 872360. |
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