Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for Sustainable DevelopmentScience and innovation need to be more responsible, inclusive and responsive to societal needs, expectations and values. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG´s) are the common global benchmarking framework to measure them. The European Commission has been promoting the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation ( RRI) as a new approach for a more inclusive, ethical, open, diverse/engendered science and innovation with better governance.
As underlined by the UNESCO Global Observatory of Science, Technology and Innovation (
GO-SPIN), national STI governance systems-together with Research and Innovation (R&I) culture and values- can play an important role in the support of RRI policies and practices.
The UNESCO Recommendation on Science and scientific researchers-
UNESCO RS/SR Recommendation- paves the way for RRI relevant aspects such as ethics (intellectual freedom, ensuring scientific researchers’ protection and career prospects/facilities, responsible and peaceful application of S&T, pluralistic values, impact on society-environment); diversity (of disciplines and non-discrimination on race, gender, age, disability; societal engagement (include ILK, right to health, promotion of science diplomacy); open science (much broader than open access). Within this package of issues, the emphasis on the well-being of researchers deserves note: fair retribution, career stability/prospects, public recognition, social security, mobility support and equal access and participation in the international community, are not just conditions for individual participation in R&I but also requirements for STI systems to serve their societies and ensure the contribution of R&I as requested to meet the SDGs.
Moreover, the monitoring system for this recommendation requests Member States to report every four years on its implementation and will include RRI related indicators and policy instruments.
The session will build on the results from two key EC RRI projects: RRI Networked Globally ( R
RING) and Grounding RRI in Research Performing Organisations in Marine and Maritime (
GRRIP) to extract lessons and discuss implicit (i.a. funding programs, tax incentives, RRI assessment and indicators as a pre-requisite for national calls participation, etc.) and explicit policy instruments (i.e. migration policies, work permits, statistics laws, etc.) and that need to be strengthened or redefine to support RRI structural change.
Speakers
and AGENDA of the session- 17h: Introduction by the chairwoman: Ms. Juliana Chaves-Chaparro, UNESCO Senior Consultant
- 17.15h: Implementing RRI in a Public Research Organisation- Swansea University Experience by Ms.Ruth Callaway, PhD, FHEA Senior Research Scientist, Swansea University
- 17.35h: The 2017 UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers in support of SDGs by Mr. Konstantinos Tararas, Programme Specialist, IRD Section, UNESCO Sector for Social and Human Sciences
- 17.55 h: Co-designing structural changes for a more Responsible Research and Innovation within GRRIP project by Malcolm J Fisk, Professor of Ageing and Digital Health PhD MA BSc FCIH FRSA Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility De Montfort University, Leicester UK
- 18.15h: Promoting RRI and UNESCO RSSR globally: the RRING network by Mr. Gordon Dalton, RRING and GRRIP project coordinator, PLOCAN
- 18.50h: Wrap up and cloture by UNESCO
RRING and GRRIP projects have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 788503 and No 82028
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