Expanding the network of our synergies
Last week, RRI2SCALE has established new synergies with two SwafS H2020 projects: DiGiTeRRI - Responsible Research and Innovation Approach for Transitioning the Traditional Industry Regions into Digitalised Industry Territories SeeRRI - Building Self-Sustaining Research and [...]
RRI2SCALE turns 1! 3rd Consortium Meeting
RRI2SCALE Project Third Consortium Meeting, 4th of December 2020, Online We are happy to announce that last week, the RRI2SCALE 3rd consortium meeting was held successfully, despite the Covid-19 confinement. The meeting, which was organised [...]
FIT4RRI: Bridging the gap between RRI and Open Science
FIT4RRI, an H2020 RRI-related project, has successfully ended! The project’s intention has been to contribute to bridging the gap between RRI and Open Science (OSc), thus helping Research Funding and Performing Organisations (RFPOs) to manage [...]
RRI: From Science in Society to Science for Society, with Society
The recent study by Professor Richard Owen, from the University of Bristol, Professor Phil Macnaghten of Wageningen University & Research and Jack Stilgoe, Senior Lecturer at University College London, describes three emergent features of RRI [...]
RRI2SCALE at the Triple Helix Summit
At the 2020 Triple Helix Virtual Summit global leaders from academia, industry and policy discussed how to build and grow regional innovative ecosystems to tackle global grand challenges. The 2020 edition of Summit was held [...]
Sex and gender dimension in frontier research: A workshop
Gender is much more than just the simple and traditional dichotomy between men and women, as the impacts it causes in the societal setting are within everyone's reach. Henceforth, it has come to the point [...]
New technologies and digitisation: opportunities and challenges
The recent study "New technologies and digitisation: opportunities and challenges for the social economy and social enterprises" by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) aims to benchmark diffuse initiatives and policies at [...]
SeeRRI: Building Responsible Self-Sustaining Research
On the basis of building sustainable research and innovation systems in Europe, SeeRRI will contribute to finding a new way for multiple actors to collaborate in research and innovation activities through a responsible mindset. Notably, [...]
Mapping RRI dimensions into regional development: a study
The recent study from Panciroli et al. (2020) "Mapping RRI Dimensions and Sustainability into Regional Development Policies and Urban Planning Instruments" was published within the framework of the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation Programme [...]
SMARTER 2020 Conference – A webinar series
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic - which has by now caused immense repercussions on daily social and economic activities - the urgency for coordinated policy initiatives has been put at the forefront of the national public [...]
The 18th European Week of Regions and Cities
The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to regional policy. This year, it will welcome its participants in a fully digital format on October 5th in order to [...]
RRI4real – FIT4RRI virtual final summit
Are you interested in lessons learned from RRI-related projects? The H2020 FIT4RRI Project organises its final summit - initially planned as a physical meeting in Rome for spring 2020, but postponed due to the Covid-19 [...]
Creating new synergies!
Creating synergies is a fundamental activity of initiatives that promote and encourage the idea of Responsible Research and Innovation across Europe. This is particularly the case for H2020 projects under the SwafS ('Science with and [...]
Understanding RRI in the context of regional development
The recent study by Thapa et al. (2019) titled "Responsible research and innovation: a systematic review of the literature and its applications to regional studies" explores the challenge of conceptualising Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) [...]
RRI institutional transformation under H2020
The report "Institutional changes towards responsible research and innovation" produced by the European Commission discusses how the concept of RRI is strictly interlinked to the transformation of a range of formal institutions - from SMEs [...]
Learning from relevant projects: RRI-Practice
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) entails cooperation between stakeholder groups, individuals, organisations and initiatives. Encouraging partnerships between projects and resorting to joint activities will amplify the pan-European struggle for introducing and consolidating regional ecosystems that [...]
Reflections on EU Research and Innovation strategy
Last October, the report "Final Reflections of the RISE Group" was issued by the Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts (RISE) group . The report followed the event "European Research and Innovation Days" in Brussels, [...]
Library Living Labs and RRI policies
The potentials of living labs as promising vehicle for promoting territorial Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) policies are becoming ever more acknowledged. University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - UAB) has been engaged with [...]