1. RRI in Belgium and Luxemburg
Kaat Peeters, Bénédicte Gombault & Sara Heesterbeek
Friday 24th April 2015

2. King Baudouin Foundation
An independent, pluralistic public benefit foundation
Making a lasting contribution towards:
- justice
- democracy
- respect for diversity

3. Specificities of this HUB
Belgium & Luxemburg
Language
Belgium and Luxemburg both have three national languages!
 Opportunities for mutual learning but also barriers for practices to diffuse
Scope
Luxemburg only counts 500.000 inhabitants
 Few and over-demanded stakeholders of RRI
Expertise in RRI
Some active pioneers, but generally not mainstream
 Need for inspiring practices and hands-on tools

4. Results in a nutshell
RRI in Belgium
• RRI not yet well-known as concept
• Funding agencies : Focus on Open Access and Research Integrity
& usergroups and support from Civil Society organizations are sometimes required
• Innovation is ‘present’ everywhere, but what is innovation?
• Participation: aims and roles are not always clearly defined
• More and more Living Labs

5. SOCIALE INNOVATIEFABRIEK
Network organisation for the promotion, coaching
and support of social innovation and social
entrepreneurship.

6. DEFINITION
Social innovation is an innovative solution to an
important societal challenge, that results in a
product, service, model or method.
Social
innovation

7. https://vimeo.com/77689983

8. Societal challenges:
poverty, climate
change, loneliness,
diversity, ageing,…
Enterprise
Association
Inidividual
CONCEPT
Information
session
Intake: detecting the
needs & detecting the
skills
First advice:
partnerships,
financing,…
Learning network
Strengthening
sessions
Alternative
currency
Ready to launch

9. LEARNING NETWORK

10. In our
first year

12. EXAMPLES