RRI Tools

European Schoolnet 

The integration of Responsible Research and Innovation principles in educational contexts has proved to be highly beneficial for students, as it helps them advance their critical thinking and collaborative learning skills while accommodating multidisciplinarity and stronger academic engagement.

Along these lines, European Schoolnet has developed an educational handbook entitled “RRI in practice for schools. Handbook for teachers” with the aim of helping educators to develop and implement RRI practices in the classroom as well as to include self-relfection processes in their everyday practices.

The resource contains a variety of resources. For a start, it includes a set of short exercises to be used as a starting point to analyze how RRI-oriented educators’ practices are, specifically focused on the mapping of RRI obstacles and opportunities, the development of school project simulations and of exercises involving different stakeholders.

The documents’ main feature is a set of guidelines and practice templates to integrate RRI in everyday school activities and, specifically, to support educators in designing academic practices integrating RRI dimensions and principles.

• The guidelines provide with instructions to set up a dynamic process of creation of educational resources while fostering capacity building and cooperation among teachers and among any other relevant stakeholders in the educational community.  
• The set of templates is designed for different subjects and for both primary and secondary school levels, depending on the activity. Particularly, the set contains a general template that describes the templates’ rationale any that can be used for any type of practice and three extra templates designed for specific activities, namely: (1) Getting started with RRI (2) Experiments and labs activities and (3) Reflection and dissemination.