Regional Action Plan to support the governance of Responsible Research & Innovation in the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme 2014 - 2020
The policy improvement will be implemented over 2 phases:
Phase 1 - the policy improvement outlined in this action plan has been achieved, the additional RRI reporting has been agreed with SFI and approved by the ROP Monitoring Committee. The indicators to be reported on have been agreed with SFI who will commence the revised reporting in 2020 for the activities carried out in 2019. Phase 2 – SRA will be measuring and reporting on results against the agreed Impact Assessment Indicators. Whilst the policy improvement is being implemented, measured and reported on for the years 2020 and 2021, in linewith the Interreg Europe requirements, the SRA are considering this improvement as a pilot stage to be further enhanced and carried over into future programming periods and potentially into other measures. The learning fromphase-1 and results reported in phase-2 will be instrumental in determining how best to incorporate RRI elements into future programming periods. As detailed above a revised reporting template has been agreed and approved with the purpose of incorporating it into the next programme. SRA are in talks with the EC around the details of the post 2020 programming periods. Going forward this will require the engagement of all actors (from individual researchers, policy-makers, innovators, civil society organisations, SMEs, HEIs, government bodies and State Agencies) to adopt and incorporate additional RRI principles in their reporting requirements under S&E ROP. While the S&E ROP has a very strong emphasis on Research & Innovation it only inadvertently promotes aspects of RRI, namely quadruple helix cooperation. It does not currently include a specific, comprehensive focus on responsibility. 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 the programme. The MARIE project is an opportunity to fully 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. The policy improvement being implemented comes under Type 2 – Management of the Policy instrument i.e. methodology for monitoring and evaluating has been refined.
Improvement over current policy instrument
Type of policy improvement
Southern Regional Assembly | Regional Action Plan
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