Responsible Research and Innovation | RRI
RRI stands for “Responsible Research and Innovation” - a concept promoted by the European Commission, that has emerged in recent years as a science policy framework, which seeks to align technological innovation with broader social values, and to support the institutional decisions concerning the goals of research and innovation in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity. RRI encourages these stakeholders to reflect and anticipate how R&I may shape the future, to remain adaptive and responsive to change and the increased complexity.
RRI promotes diversity and inclusion as well as openness and transparency in the development of Research and Innovation (R&I) policies, programmes and activities. RRI aims to engage publics and responsible actors (researchers, citizens, policy- and decision makers, business, third sector organisations and others) in the science and innovation field, to produce ethically acceptable, sustainable and socially desirable research and innovation outcomes in line with the values, needs and expectations of the European society.
The RRI approach has developed over the years and the term implies that societal challenges should be a primary focus of scientific research while indicating the methods by which that goal should be achieved. In such a context, Responsible Research and Innovation involves holding research to high ethical standards, ensuring gender equality in the scientific community, investing policy-makers with the responsibility to avoid harmful effects of innovation, engaging the communities affected by innovation and ensuring that they have the knowledge necessary to understand the implications by furthering science education and Open Access.
News
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Upcoming Call of EmpoWOMEN for women-led startups for acceleration services
EmpoWOMEN is a collaborative initiative led by Sploro in partnership with Tech Ukraine, Startup Wise Guys, and Business Angels Europe. This project, funded by the European Union...
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Responsible Research and Innovation in the Western Balkans
The Horizon 2020-funded project WBC-RRI.NET presents the current state-of-play in relation to the portfolio of activities in a newsletter. WBC-RRI.NET is a project funded by the EU Research and Innovation...
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Developing Gender Equality Plans: POLICY ANSWERS Capacity Building in Albania
Eight research-performing (and funding) organisation profit from the training programme developed under the POLICY ANSWERS Capacity Building Programme for Albania in the drafting of their Gender Equality...
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Events
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Webinar on “Spreading Citizen Science in the Western Balkans”
Under the banner of WBC-RRI.NET, we invite to a discussion raising awareness and understanding of the possibilities of Citizen Science in the Western Balkan region. The event’s objective is to showcase...
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As universities and research organisations are increasingly involved in tackling gender-based violence, they often lack guidance on where to start or how to ensure that their policies and measures are...
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European Open Science Cloud: EOSC Future training workshop in North Macedonia
As part of its on-going commitment to raise uptake of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) – its services, data and software – the "EOSC Future" project is organising a major in-person workshop to train...
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Organisations
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Network of Albanian Women in STEM
The Network of Albanian Women in STEM (NAW-STEM) aims to contribute to the social and economic empowerment of women by increasing their representation in STEM, both in academia and industry. Areas ...
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Women in Tech® is an international organization with a double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. The organization focuses on 4 primary areas that are a call for...
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Working Group on Open Science at RCC
The Working Group on Open Science (WGOS) aims to promote the adoption of Open Science policies and associated measures in the Western Balkans and Turkey. The emphasis of its activities is...
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Calls
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The Open Science Workshop at GSI/FAIR warmly welcomes researchers from the Western Balkans to participate in this event. The workshop is scheduled to be held on the 19 and 20 October 2023, ...
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Do you think youth should be empowered to drive the change towards a sustainable bioeconomy? Are you organising an event linking youth with bioeconomy innovation around the time of our Bioeconomy...
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MSCA and Citizens Call: European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2024-2025
This call for Coordination and Support Actions is implemented as a Lump Sum Grant. The expected contribution for projects covering two editions of the European Researchers’ Night and Researchers at Schools...
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Documents
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POLICY ANSWERS Gender Mainstreaming & Inclusiveness Guidelines
Presentations of the Peer-learning Webinar organised by POLICY ANSWERS partners MIR and FBLU in November 2023.
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The project WBC-RRI.NET already entailed a series of mapping exercises and co-creation procedures at regional level, taken place during the first half of the project. The participatory and systematic ...
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Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU (SRIP) report
Report analysing the state of innovation in Europe and recommendations for the future. Download the report, individual chapters, video and presentations.
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Links
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[RRI Good Practice] Enhancing Research Culture in Higher Education in Kosovo*
What is the good practice about? Through developing, coordinating and implementing the EU/Erasmus + funded project “Enhancing Research Culture in Higher Education in Kosovo (ResearchCult: https://researchcult...
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What is the good practice about? The PSSOH conference (srl. Primena Slobodnog Softvera i Otvorenog Hardvera) was established in 2018 at the University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering...
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[RRI Good Practice] Orange Feather Initiative
What is the good practice about? The Initiative is consisting of educational workshops for and with youth, researchers, policy makers, other interested in preventing gender-based violence, providing...
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Projects
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European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics CA19122
Women are underrepresented in Informatics at all levels, from undergraduate and graduate studies to participation and leadership in academia and industry. The main aim and objective of EUGAIN is to...
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Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality CA20137
The main aim of the VOICES COST Action is to increase visibility of inequalities faced by Young Researchers and Innovators (YRIs) from a gender perspective and to promote a sustainable dialogue between...
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The Project “Excellence in science and innovation for Europe by adopting the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (NewHoRRIzon)” sets out to promote the acceptance of RRI in Horizon 2020 (H2020...
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