Regional Action Plan to support the governance of Responsible Research & Innovation in the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme 2014 - 2020
Adopting the governance and monitoring principles outlined in this good practice by incorporating a stronger governance system and subsequent metrics into the S&E ROP 2014-2020 will facilitate stronger embedding and governance of RRI elements thereby improving the policy Instrument. As defined in this Good Practice the enhanced governance of the S&E ROP will follow a quadruple helix approach in collaboration with the primary stakeholder integrating them into the process and fostering a more vested interest into the improvement and reporting on the RRI elements. The primary stakeholder, in this case SFI, is responsible for administering the funding for Ireland’s Research Centres Programme and Associated Spokes Programme making their involvement and ongoing commitment crucial to the success of the policy improvement. As previously noted while the S&E ROP has a very strong emphasis on R&I it has no specific focus on Responsibility. Review of the good practice ‘Ambition Research Development 2020’ highlighted the impact stronger governance could have on the S&E ROP, through the enhancement of the governance system in place they are better able to manage projects in line with stakeholders. Going forward SRA will emulate this by incorporating enhanced governance through the addition of reporting on RRI elements on an annual basis by SFI, Intermediate Body on the ROP, and establishing monitoring metrics. This will facilitate SRA in monitoring the socio-economic impacts and meet the overall objective of improving regional public policy that supports delivery of RRI to enterprises’ product, process and service design, production and distribution. The good practices were initially introduced in a poster format at ILE2 in Athens on the 30th & 31st May 2017. This gave the opportunity to review the main learning points and question elements that were unclear. At this same event Natalie Boulanger from Dev-Up spoke of the ‘Ambition Research Development 2020’ GP clarifying the aim of their approach was to launch a real partnership not only among the research institutes and the universities, but also by involving companies in the R&D projects. This is one of the main priorities for the SRA further cementing the value in applying the learning from this GP. ILE3 in Orleans in November 2017 provided the opportunity to meet the stakeholders involved in this GP. Group discussions at ILE4 in Tampere, Finland on the 29th-30th May 2018 gave a more rounded and in-depth understanding of the GP and how best to apply it to achieve the desired influence over the S&E ROP. The ongoing discussions and subsequent learnings taken from GP prompted us to not only look at Governance in isolation but to also apply relevant monitoring metrics to measure the impact of the policy improvement.
What elements of this GP are included in the policy improvement presented
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