Regional Action Plan to support the governance of Responsible Research & Innovation in the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme 2014 - 2020
Description of the envisaged / enhanced policy context
While the S&E ROP has a very strong emphasis on Research & Innovation it only inadvertently promotes aspects of RRI primarily the quadruple helix cooperation. It does not currently include a specific, comprehensive focus on responsibility. In order to meet societal challenges and expectations, broader societal involvement in R&I is needed to collaboratively reflect on the futures we aspire to as societies. Further integrating the values, guiding principles and requirements of RRI into our policy instrument, whether existing or brand new, can contribute to increasing the ethical acceptability, sustainability and social desirability of the processes and outcomes of a programme. The MARIE project is an opportunity to integrate and embed RRI as a horizontal principle into the S&E ROP in order to improve the quality of responsible innovation delivery and enhance the governance of RRI principles.
By enhancing the governance of RRI principles the S&E ROP will:
• Be robust and adaptable to the unpredictable development of R&I;
• Share responsibility and accountability among all actors;
• Enhance governance and reporting on RRI by providing governance instruments to foster shared responsibility;
• Encourage an increase in the number of researchers embedding RRI principles into their work;
• Facilitate better alignment of RTDI to the values, needs and expectations of a wider public;
• Lead to an increase in the level of public engagement and science education;
• Provide an opportunity to increase awareness of the benefits of RRI in all societal actors;
• Alleviate the perceived complexity of the concept and means of application of RRI by facilitating an appropriate approach for public authorities;
• Influence how RRI is integrated into future policy/programme;
• Provide an opportunity to ensure any changes and outcomes of the enhanced reporting is sustainable going forward.
Southern Regional Assembly | Regional Action Plan
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