Regional Action Plan to support the governance of Responsible Research & Innovation in the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme 2014 - 2020
Match between Regional RRI Maturity and selection of GP
This GP is concerned with Public Engagement and Governance both of which the S&E region of Ireland scored a modest rating for in the maturity mapping exercise.
Through adoption of the principles outlined in this GP the SRA aim to:
• Follow the lead of this GP in their extensive quadruple helix approach;
• Enhance the governance through refining the reporting requirements of funding recipients;
• Encouraging stronger public engagement and science education.
There is a match between the actual and required level of RRI maturity.
Other elements of the MARIE Interregional Exchange process used to define the Policy Improvement
The information and learning that we drew from in the development of this action plan was:
• Good practices referenced above;
• The Maturity Mapping exercise highlighted three areas of improvement in Ireland prompting us to concentrate on enhanced governance elements of the policy instrument;
• The Enterprise Survey which supported the findings of the maturity mapping exercise and focused our efforts on improving reporting requirements on Public Engagement & Science Education. An amalgamation of the learning from the above-listed exercises led us to concentrate on improving the governance of RRI within the S&E ROP 2014-2020 and more specifically, on reporting elements of public engagement and promotion of science education. In addition to the above we found the exchange of learning from the partnership meetings, seminars and the mid-term event to be of immeasurable value. At the kick-off meeting, in Cessna, Italy on the 09th February 2017, speaker Dr Simone Arnaldi of CIGA, University of Padua, clarified the role of RRI in the regional context. She spoke of the shift in RRI and the recognition of the importance of governance to the extent that it is now one of the key pillars. She stated ‘“Governance” can be seen as the integrative dimension of social needs, responsibility practices and political/institutional framework’. This insight informed us when reviewing and selecting the relevant good practices and determining how to influence the policy instrument. Another key learning point from this initial event was not to underestimate the role of intermediary organisations as they are key to the objective of mainstreaming RRI. Also emphasised was the importance adopting of a long-term methodology to achieve true quadruple helix cooperation, a cornerstone of RRI.
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