Day 1
Nov. 21st
Ignasi López Verdeguer
Director of the Department of Science, “la Caixa” Foundation. Coordinator of the RRI Tools project.
Jacqueline Broerse
Director of the Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam.
Melanie Smallman
Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London.
Rosalia Vargas
President of Ciência Viva - Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica.
CONTENTS
This session showed examples and opened up the discussion on how RRI is being implemented at national and regional scales by ministries, R&I funding institutions, research centre managers and administrators, and all actors involved.
STRUCTURE
Case studies preceded an open discussion. Seven panellist shared their experience in embedding RRI into regional and national policies, providing inspiring insights into the current European landscape.
MODERATOR
Steve Miller
Professor of Science Communication / Planetary Science, University College London.
CONTENTS
This session focused on future strategies and incentives of stakeholder engagement. It tackled diverse ways to open research, including citizen science, science shops, and open science practices.
STRUCTURE
We started by listening to preliminary results of a pan-European consultation and had a brief look at inspiring projects related to RRI, transformative and transdisciplinary research. In the following we facilitated an interactive discussion with our audience about what is urgently needed to implement or experiment with new concepts of communication, co-creation, sustainability or responsibility.
MODERATORS
Norbert Steinhaus WilaBonn, Living Knowledge Network, Michaela Shields, WilaBonn and Valentina Amorese, Fondazione Cariplo.
CONTENTS
How innovation actors implement responsible innovation approaches? This session provided views on how all sorts of innovation actors can work in a more open, responsible, sustainable and acceptable way.
STRUCTURE
The session started with a “PechaKucha” aimed to set the scene and give the audience an overview on some ongoing projects and programmes addressing RRI. The workshop continued with a panel hosting different innovation stakeholders: this talk moved from the all-scale concept to the all scale-up RRI one.
MODERATORS
Chiara Davalli, Project Manager, EBN and Bernd Carsten Stahl, Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University.
Get to know the finalists and the winners of this first edition of the EFARRI award. Check its website to get more information on the awards, the winners and the whole ceremony.
Day 2
Nov. 22st
MODERATOR
Melanie Smallman
Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London.
SPEAKERS
Rajesh Tandon
President of Participatory Research in Asia and co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education.
María Villaveces
Chief executive officer, Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science.
John Crowley
Chief of Section, Sector for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO.
CONTENTS
The aim of the session was to show inspiring European examples of responsible research and innovation practices, which provide solutions to Societal Challenges and/or address Sustainability Development Goals.
STRUCTURE
The session started with an interactive theatre intervention, bringing all the conference participants together to explore the societal future of a new technology: synthetic biology. Actors played out semi-improvised scenes to show the future of potential synbio applications on stage. A facilitator took the audience to explore the opportunities and dilemmas they experienced witnessing the scenes. In the second part of the session, several speakers showcased the projects addressing the societal challenges and potential solutions.
MODERATORS
Carlos Catalão, Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência Viva, Gonçalo Praça, Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência Viva and Antonina Khodzhaeva, Ecsite – European Network of Science Centres and Museums.
CONTENTS
With the aim of establishing a common ground on how to bring about responsible and open decision-making processes in R&I systems, this session presented practical cases of structural changes already developed at different European R&I institutions.
STRUCTURE
In the first part of the session, speakers briefly introduced examples of structural changes carried out in European institutions. From setting local research agendas to modifying incentive systems in R&I centres, these cases will answered to questions such as the kind of structural changes needed in R&I systems, how to implement open and responsible governance, or how to evaluate the long-term impact of those initiatives. Following, the moderators facilitated an interactive discussion among the speakers and the audience on still open questions in this field.
MODERATORS
Ignasi López Verdeguer, Director of the Department of Science, ”la Caixa” Foundation and Sergio Villanueva Baselga, University of Barcelona.
CONTENTS
This session focussed on how we can incorporate the principles and practices of RRI in a responsible and open way of doing in the education of the researchers, innovators and citizens of tomorrow.
STRUCTURE
The session started with a “market place”, showcasing 11 examples of EU-funded projects tackling different approaches for the implementation of RRI in educational processes. Following, moderators facilitated an interactive discussion on phases of the R&I process and levels of participation at which different actions can intervene, involving participants and projects’ representatives.
MODERATORS
Rosina Malagrida, Head of Living Lab for Health Research, IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute and Viola Pinzi, Science Projects Officer, European Schoolnet (EUN).
MODERATOR
Jacqueline Broerse
Director of the Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam.
SPEAKERS
How can Open Science and responsible medical research meet the challenge of improving health?
Trish Groves
Editor-in-chief, BMJ Open and Honorary deputy editor, The British Medical Journal.
Food security - RRI in Agricultural research for development
Pascal Kosuth
Director of the Agropolis Foundation.
Responsible research and innovation in a rapidly changing and increasingly telecoupled world
Barron Joseph Orr
Professor and Geospatial Extension Specialist, University of Alicante & University of Arizona.
MODERATOR
Gerrit Rauws
Director at King Baudouin Foundation.
SPEAKERS
Sylvie Bove
CEO EIT Health - European Institute of Innovation & Technology.
Stephanie Daimer
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research and coordinator of the EU project “Forward Visions on the European Research Area”.
Catherine Franche
Executive Director of ECSITE - European Network of Science Centres and Museums.
Katrien Maes
Chief Policy Officer of the League of European Research Universities.
Kurt Vandenberghe
Director, Policy Development and Coordination, European Commission.
Kurt Vandenberghe
Director, Policy Development and Coordination, European Commission.
Philippe Galiay
Head of Sector ‘Responsible Research and Innovation in H2020 and ERA’, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission.
Ignasi López Verdeguer
Director of the Department of Science, “la Caixa” Foundation. Coordinator of the RRI Tools project.
