New HoRRIzon
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. 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.
Project duration: May 2017 – April 2021
Project lead: Institut für höhere Studien/Institutes for advanced studies (Austria)
Website: newhorrizon.eu
Fit4RRI
FIT4RRI moves from the assumption that there is a serious gap between the potential role Responsible Research and innovation (RRI) and Open Science could play in helping Research Funding and Performing Organisations to manage the rapid transformation processes affecting science (especially the science-in-society aspects) and the actual impact RRI and OS are currently having on RFPOs, research sectors and national research systems. FIT4RRI is precisely intended to contribute in bridging this gap, promoting viable strategies to activate institutional changes in RFPOs.
Project duration: May 2017 – April 2021
Project lead: Universita degli studi di Roma la Sapienza/Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Website: fit4rri.eu
Resbios Aims
ResBios will embed Responsible Research and Innovation-RRI- 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: 1. 1. 2020 – 31. 12. 2022
Project lead: University of Gdańsk, Uniwersytet Gdański (Polen)
Website: resbios.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
EnTire Consortium
Mapping Normative Frameworks for EThics and Integrity of REsearch
The EnTIRE consortium consists of ten partners from across the European Union. Our vision is to create a dynamic online Wiki-platform, owned by the research community, that will make the normative framework governing Research Ethics and Research Integrity (RE+RI) accessible.
This platform will make practical information on how to comply with EU, national and discipline-specific RE+RI standards and legislation easy to find and understand.
It will also provide a one-stop destination for teaching resources, illustrative cases, and scenarios specific for the European context.
Project duration: May 2017 – April 2021
Project lead: STICHTING VUMC (Netherlands)
Website: entireconsortium.eu
PRO-RES
Promoting integrity in the use of Research results in evidence based policy: a focus on non-medical Research.
PRO-RES project aims to produce a guidance framework regarding the delivery of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), which is required from researchers and research funding and performing organizations (RFPO), in order to balance political, institutional and professional contradictions and constraints.
This framework aims to cover the spectrum of non-medical sciences and offer practical solutions for all stakeholders, that will comply with the highest standards of research ethics and integrity.
In terms of post-2020 European strategic funding policy this offers a strong and sustainable contribution to RRI via a comprehensive ethics and integrity framework similar to Oviedo/ Helsinki which will have been constructed in negotiation with relevant Stakeholders.
Project duration: May 2018– April 2021
Project lead: FONDATION EUROPEENNE DE LA SCIENCE
Website: prores-project.eu
Gender Equality Academy
The general goal of the GE Academy project is to develop and implement a coherent and high-quality capacity-building programme on gender equality (GE) in research and innovation (R&I) as well as in Higher Education (HE). GE Academy will develop and provide a series of comprehensive training formats and tailor-made training materials for trainers, practitioners and researchers, making these available to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. The GE Academy, with its full capacity-building programme including different training formats (Train-the-Trainers, physical trainings and interactive workshops, Summer Schools, webinars, online Distributed Open Collaborative Courses), will be built and executed in at least 15 countries.
Project duration: January 2019 – December 2021
Project lead: VILABS OE (Greece)
Website: ge-academy.eu
HubIT project
The Hub will activate the constructive interactions between ICT developers, SSH researchers and other stakeholders (e.g. NGOs, citizens and users) leading to a responsible approach to research and innovation through the uptake of SSH expertise and RRI actions.
The long term strategic objective of HubIT is to contribute to the high level of European research and innovation and ensure that H2020 funded and further ICT related innovation is responsible, inclusive and aimed at reversing inequalities.
The direct objective of HubIT is to build a Hub that will activate and improve constructive and co-creative interactions between SSH and ICT disciplines in developing and implementing a shared vision of inclusive ICT research and innovation.
Project duration: September 2017 – February 2021
Project lead: CIVITTA EESTI AS (Estonia)
Website: hubit-project.eu
EURAXESS TOP IV
To strengthen the effectiveness and optimize the services of all partners in an innovative and open EURAXESS network
Established by the European Commission 17 years ago, EURAXESS is now a network spread in more than 600 organizations, in 42 European countries. It consists of over 1500 people, embedded in many different types of organisations, all dedicated to improve the life of researchers, with special focus on international mobility and career development issues.
The EURAXESS centers provide free personalized assistance in 18 areas of expertise. They guide with information and hands-on help with paperwork, but they do not interfere in the relationship with authorities and decision-makers.
Project duration: September 2018 – August 2021
Project leading: ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (Greece)
Website: euraxess.ec.europa.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
GEECCO
Gender Equality in Engineering through Communication and Commitment
GEECCO aims to establish tailor-made Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in four European universities (RPOs) and to implement the gender dimension in two research funding organisations (RFOs) in funding schemes, programmes and review processes. All participating universities are located in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) field, where gender equality is still a serious problem and whose innovations are increasingly important in the knowledge-based economies. It is thus a question of excellence, competitiveness and justice to achieve gender equity within STEM-institutions, including policy and decision making bodies. Concerning the gender dimension in research programmes research funding organisations are the key to substantial changes and thus a crucial part of the aspired transformation.
GEECCO will develop the “GEECCO Experience: Dos and Don’ts while Degenderizing the STEM Field”, a guideline for RPOs and RFOs in the STEM field how to promote gender equality in the STEM field and intends to participate in standardisation processes at EU level to measure “gender balance performance” of RPOs and RFOs.
Project duration: May 2017 – April 2021
Project lead: Technische Universität Wien (Austria)
Website: geecco-project.eu
RRing
Responsible Research and Innovation Networked Globally
The overall project aim is to bring RRI into the linked up global world to promote mutual learning and collaboration in RRI. This will be achieved by the formation of the global RRING community network and by the development and mobilisation of a global Open Access RRI knowledge base. RRING will align RRI to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a global common denominator.
The RRING project acknowledges that each region of the world is advancing its own agenda on RRI. Therefore, RRING will not be producing a Global RRI framework or strategy that is meant to be enforced in a top-down manner. Rather, increased coherence and convergence will be achieved via a bottom-up approach, learning from best practices in RRI globally and from linkages, via the new RRING community, to develop the RRI linked-up world.
Project duration: May 2018 – April 2021
Project lead: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
Website: rring.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
RRI Tools
Project duration: January 2014 – December 2016
Project lead: FUNDACION BANCARIA CAIXA D’ESTALVISI PENSIONS DE BARCELONA LA CAIXA (Spain)
Website: rri-tools.eu/en/search-engine
RRI-Practice
Responsible Research and Innovation in Practice
RRI-Practice is a 3-year project under Horizon 2020. Its aim is to understand the barriers and drivers to the successful implementation of RRI both in European and global contexts; to promote reflection on organisational structures and cultures of research conducting and research funding organisations; and to identify and support best practices to facilitate the uptake of RRI in organisations and research programmes. The project will review RRI related work in 22 research conducting and research funding organisations and will develop RRI Outlooks outlining RRI objectives, targets and indicators for each organisation.
Project duration: September 2016 – 31 August 2019
Project lead: OSLOMET – STORBYUNIVERSITETET (Norway)
Website: rri-practice.eu
ProGRess Pro
ProGReSS aims to promote a European approach to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) through a global network. The composition of the consortium is the hard core of this Network. Thanks to its partners and advisors, the project benefits from:
- global geographic coverage (Europe, the US, China, Japan, India, Australia and South Africa),
- involvement of relevant stakeholders (academia, international organisations, industry, SME research, NGOs, policy advisors and research funders), and
- complementary interdisciplinarity (Computer and information science, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Gender Studies, Geography, Law, Management, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Social Sciences, Technology studies).
Project duration: February 2013 – January 2016
Project lead: University of Central Lancashire (UK)
Website: progressproject.eu
Starbios2
Structural Transformation to Attain Responsible BIOSciences
STARBIOS2 is a European project that received funding from the Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to implement the Responsible Research and Innovation-RRI approach in research institutions through Action Plans. A model and guidelines will be elaborated based on the Action Plans feedback and experience to facilitate the implementation of RRI in other research institutions.
Project duration: May 2016 – July 2020
Project lead: UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA/ UNIVERSITY OF ROME (Italy)
Website: starbios2.eu
NUCLEUS
New Understanding of Communication, Learning and Engagement in Universities and Scientific Institutions
NUCLEUS was a four-year, Horizon 2020 project investigating how to make Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) a reality in universities and research institutions. What institutional barriers prevent these organisations from engaging with their stakeholders to align research with society’s needs? How can these obstacles be overcome? NUCLEUS was implementing new policies and programming in 10 international test sites to understand the DNA of RRI.
Project duration: September 2015 – August 2019
Project lead: RHINE-WAAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES (Germany)
Website: nucleus-project.eu
Jerri
Joining Efforts for Responsible Research and Innovation
The goal of the project is to foster RRI transition in Europe by developing and testing good RRI practices in pilot cases, for a further upscaling among the RTOs in the EU28. A Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Plan will be developed and implemented at the biggest European RTOs, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and TNO, covering the five RRI key dimensions (societal engagement, gender equality and gender in research and innovation con-tent, open access, science education and ethics). After identifying the state-of-the-art of good RRI practices, goals will be developed for within each dimension. Barriers for the achievement of these goals will be analyzed, and an action plan to overcome these barriers will be formulated. The project will be set up as a mutual learning process between the consortium, further European RTOs, stakeholders, and two international associated partners.
Project duration: June 2016 – May 2019
Project lead: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Germany)
Website: jerri-project.eu
Proso
PROSO is the short name of a project called Promoting Societal Engagement in Research and Innovation.
The major goal of the PROSO project is to provide guidance on how to encourage engagement of citizens and third sector organizations, like non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs), in Europe’s research and innovation processes. This guidance shall help in moving towards Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), the European Union’s approach to good governance in research and innovation (R&I). Societal engagement in R&I is an important element of the EU’s RRI approach. Recent EU-funded research has found that societal engagement in European R&I is relatively high by international standards, but is unevenly distributed, both geographically and regarding issue areas
Project duration: January 2016 – February 2018
Project lead: DIALOGIC COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION RESEARCH SOCIETY /DIALOGIK GEMEINNUETZIGE GESELLSCHAFT FUER KOMMUNIKATIONS- UND KOOPERATIONSFORSCHUNG mbH (Germany)
Website: proso-project.eu
FoTRRIS
Fostering a Transition towards Responsible Research and Innovation Systems
The main objective of FoTRRIS is to develop and introduce new governance practices to foster Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) policies and methods in research and innovation systems. Since research and innovation systems and practices in different European MS and within different research performing organisations vary, FoTRRIS will consider the implementation of new governance practices in five different MS
In order to stress that responsible research and innovation is a collaborative activity from the very beginning—collaboration starts ‘upstream’, from the definition of the problem or challenge, continues with the analysis of the problem, the projection of potential solutions, the design of a research and innovation project that aims at realising a solution, and goes on during its performance and monitoring—FoTRRIS adds the prefix ‘co’ to the acronym RRI.
Moreover, because important present-day challenges are (at least partially) of a global nature, but manifest themselves in ways that are influenced by local conditions, FoTRRIS focusses on ‘glocal’ challenges, i.e. local/regional manifestations of global challenges and on ‘local’ opportunities for solving them.
FoTRRIS will perform a transition experiment, i.e. an experiment to support the transformation of present-day research and innovation strategies into co-RRI-strategies. It will design, test and validate the organisation, operation and funding of a co-RRI-hub. This hub is conceived as a small organisational unit, that will function as a local one-stop innovation platform that encourages various knowledge actors from science, policy, industry and civil society to co-design, -perform, and –monitor co-RRI-projects that are attuned to local manifestations of global sustainability challenges.
The transition experiments performed in 5 member states will be evaluated and policy recommendations to implement co-RRI derived.
Project duration:October 2015 – March 2018
Project lead: FLEMISH INSTITUTION FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH N.V./VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V. (Belgium)
Website: fotrris-h2020.eu
Heirri
Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation
Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation (HEIRRI) foster an alignment of research and innovation (R&I) with the needs, values and societal expectations. The six key aspects of “Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)”-societal/public engagement, gender equality, open access, science education, ethics and governance in R&I-are transdisciplinary included at all stages of formation of scientist and engineers, and other professional fields involved in R&I.
HEIRRI will create and share on OA a stock-taking inventory constituted by a State of the Art Review and a Data Base. The inventory will gather results of other EU funded RRI projects, good cases and practices of RRI and RRI Learning. Also, different stakeholders involved and/or affected by R&I will participate in a debate and reflection process on RRI Learning through online and offline Forum actions.
Results from the inventory will represent the basis for RRI Training programs and formative materials, offering the students knowledge and skills to develop viable solutions to specific problems related to R&I, integrating theory and practice. They will be designed for the different HEI educational levels (undergraduate, MD and PhD, summer courses and MOOC), mainly based on Problem based learning methodology, and supported by multimedia materials (videos and microvideos, 2.0 materials, etc.). All results and products elaborated by HEIRRI will be uploaded on OA at RRITools Platform.
An internationalization plan will guarantee their spreading awareness and future use by HEI from Europe and beyond. A global scope and expertise on RRI will be provided by HEIRRI consortium that consists of 5 European HEI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universitetet I Bergen (UiB), Aarhus Universitet (AU), Institut Fuer Hoehere Studien und Wissenschaftliche Forschung (IHS), Sveuciliste u Splitu (University of Split, UNIST)), the European network of science centres and museums (AEESTI / Ecsite), Fundación Bancaria Caixa D’estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona La Caixa (FBLC), a network of universities (Associació Catalana d’Universitats Públiques, ACUP), and a private company specialized in R&I (INNOVATEC).
Project duration: September 2015 – August 2019
Project lead: UNIVERSITY OF POMPEU FABRA/UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA (Spain)
Website: heirri.eu
Foster+
FOSTER Plus is a 2-year, EU-funded project, carried out by 11 partners across 6 countries. The primary aim is to contribute to a real and lasting shift in the behaviour of European researchers to ensure that Open Science (OS) becomes the norm.
Research communities, research performing institutions, and research funders have each recognised that OS skills are increasingly essential for researchers to undertake responsible research and innovation. While there is increasing agreement around the need to improve OS skills amongst all stakeholders, the adoption of OS approaches has been quite limited to date. Indeed general awareness of OS approaches has improved among EU researchers. However, there is still a lack of practical guidance and training to help researchers learn how to open up their research within a particular domain or research environment. For this reason, FOSTER Plus places specific emphasis on creating discipline-specific guidance and is partnering with expert organisations representing the scientific areas of life science, social science and humanities.
FOSTER Plus will enhance existing materials and co-produce new training content. The resources will be discipline-specific and their practical and tangible outcomes can directly be applied into researchers’ daily practices. The training activities will be addressed to all relevant stakeholders in the European Research Area, with a focus on young scientists, academic staff and policy makers. A strong train-the-trainer approach and network of open science trainers to act as ambassadors will help to reach a wide audience.
Project duration:May 2017 – April 2019
Project lead: UNIVERSITY OF MINHO/UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO (Portugal)
Website: fosteropenscience.eu