Related initiatives

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

Change labs to activate change coalitions in R&I:
The project aims at supporting the implementation of institutional changes at research and innovation (R&I) stakeholders in the areas of citizen engagement, science education, gender equality, research ethics and open access. The consortium partners come from research performing and research funding organisations, from governmental bodies, industry, ethics councils and civil society. Together we create responsible research and innovation (RRI) tools and practices providing possibilities for institutions willing to transform by e.g. reflection of internal norms, values and procedures, by capacity building, quality management, impact assessment and monitoring.

Project duration: February 2020 – January 2023

Project lead: AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Austria)

Website: ait.ac.at.projects/cochange

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

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.
Six Objectives of RRING
Objective 1: Promote a linked up global world of RRI by creating the global RRING community network, thereby enabling mutual learning, collaboration, mobilisation of RRI concepts.
Objective 2: Mobilise, promote and disseminate a global open access knowledge base of RRI based on the State of the Art (SoA) and comparative analysis across the key geographies, all stakeholders and sectors. It will cover key platforms, spaces and players, role and influence of stakeholders, drivers and policies for R&I, regulation in public,private sectors and nation states and international organizations.
Objective 3: Align RRI to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to provide a global common denominator for advancement of RRI, and address Grand Challenges globally.
Objective 4: Determine the competitive advantages of RRI and also understand how and where RRI is perceived as a barrier and/ or disadvantage.
Objective 5: Create high level RRI strategy recommendations for the seven geographic zones, trial RRI best practice learning in 2 EU case studies
Objective 6: Promote inclusive engagement of civil society and researchers

Project duration: May 2018 – April 2021

Project lead: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

Website: rring.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

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-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