Consultation workshop on RRI - English
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Template presentation used for the consultation workshops carried out by the RRI Hub members accross Europe on stakeholders' obstacles, opportunities and ideas for RRI in October-November 2014.
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- 1. Insert location and date Moderator: XXXX Assistant: XXXX www.rri-tools.eu
- 2. | Consultation Workshop Everyone’s input is equally valued! Share your experiences and actively listen to others Be open to new ideas and concepts Be here now Discussions and criticisms must focus on issues, not people Don’t just raise problems – think about solutions This is not a debate, prefer ‘and’ rather than ‘but’ Adhere to timings and to instructions of moderator and have fun!
- 3. | Consultation Workshop Session 1 Introduction to the project and workshop RRI Tools EU 7th Framework Program project 26 partners 19 Hubs covering 30 countries Main goal & outcome: develop a Training and Dissemination Toolkit on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) keystone to foster RRI among all stakeholders -explicitly referred to in several Horizon2020 calls-
- 4. | Consultation Workshop The RRI Tools Consortium Technological partner Networks Hub leaders Coordinator Deputy coordinator Hubs coordinator RRI Definition & Practices leader Stakeholder assessment leader Training & Advocacy leader Evaluation leader Dissemination leader Management Board
- 5. | Consultation Workshop Social responsibility in offshore windmills design Inspiring case studies Socio-Technical integration Research Sensitive value design What is a tool for RRI?
- 6. | Consultation Workshop Training courses & guides
- 7. | Consultation Workshop Self-assessment resources
- 8. | Consultation Workshop Guides on how to plan & implement
- 9. | Consultation Workshop Advocacy & dissemination resources
- 10. | Consultation Workshop Resource portals
- 11. | Consultation Workshop Consultation Workshop: your role as an expert PROMISING RRI PRACTICES STAKEHOLDERS NEEDS&CONSTRAINTS RRI TOOLS RRI TOOLKIT •RRI quality standards •Case studies •Already existing tools
- 12. | Consultation Workshop 8 exercises + 3 breaks ≅ 8 hours Goals • To discuss the RRI working definition • To collect and evaluate promising practices • To assess stakeholders’ needs&constraints when putting RRI into practice Outcomes The results of the workshop will contribute to shape the RRI Toolkit Consultation Workshop: your role as an expert
- 13. | Consultation Workshop OVERVIEW AGENDA Session 2 - Introducing RRI: why and what? - Ex. 1: Conceptualizing RRI - Ex. 2: Your personal experiences with RRI Coffee break Session 3 - Ex. 3: Collecting promising RRI practices - Ex. 4: Formulating characteristics of promising RRI practices Lunch
- 14. | Consultation Workshop OVERVIEW AGENDA Session 4 - Introduction - Ex. 6: Obstacles & opportunities of RRI Coffee break - Ex. 7: Identify actions & solutions - Ex. 8: Define your needs for the proposed actions and solutions Closure
- 16. | Consultation Workshop Session 2 Introducing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Why RRI? What is RRI?
- 17. | Consultation Workshop European motivation for RRI
- 18. | Consultation Workshop Why Responsible Research and Innovation? Health and wellbeing Clean energy Climate action and resource efficiency Inclusive and secure societies Grand Challenges Global poverty
- 19. | Consultation Workshop Smart phones Robo care Research and innovation However, sometimes they fail The formula that killed Wallstreet • Affect all of us • Have the potential to solve problems Golden Rice
- 20. | Consultation Workshop Need for RRI Science Practice
- 21. | Consultation Workshop Need for RRI Problem Research Implementation Science and practice join hands
- 22. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 1a: Plenary discussion (10 min) Why is Responsible Research and Innovation important according to you?
- 24. | Consultation Workshop What is RRI? • Research and innovation aimed at sustainability Sensitive to Grand Challenges • Engaging society at large Sensitive to social values Shared responsibility amongst variety of stakeholders When RRI? • Ongoing, iterative process
- 25. | Consultation Workshop Who? • Not only researchers and innovators • As inclusive as possible and required Researchers Policymakers Industry CSOs Educators
- 26. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 1b: Plenary discussion (15 min) What do you think your role in the R&I chain can or should be?
- 28. | Consultation Workshop What, exactly? Our proposed working definition: • Responsible research and innovation is a dynamic, iterative process; • all stakeholders involved in the practice of research and innovation become mutually responsive; • these stakeholders share the responsibility regarding the outcomes and processes of research and innovation.
- 29. | Consultation Workshop How, exactly? 1. Learning outcomes • Engaged publics • Responsible actors • Responsible institutions 2. R&I outcomes • Ethically acceptable • Sustainable • Socially desirable 3. Solutions to societal challenges • 7 Grand Challenges (EU) Outcomes: Process requirements: 1. Diversity & inclusion 3. Openness & transparency 2. Anticipation & reflection 4. Responsiveness & adaptive change
- 30. | Consultation Workshop 1. Learning outcomes • Engaged publics • Responsible actors • Responsible institutions 2. R&I outcomes • Ethically acceptable • Sustainable • Socially desirable 3. Solutions to societal challenges • 7 Grand Challenges (EU) Outcomes
- 31. | Consultation Workshop Process requirements 1. Diversity & inclusion 3. Openness & transparency 2. Anticipation & reflection 4. Responsiveness & adaptive change
- 32. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 1c: Conceptualizing RRI (30 min) • Are the current process requirements adequately formulated? • Are there aspects outside the four clusters of process requirements that you feel are missing? • What is the relative importance of the four clusters of requirements?
- 34. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 2: Your personal experiences with RRI - Discuss your own experiences with your neighbor (5 min) - Plenary discussion (15 min)
- 35. | Consultation Workshop Coffee break
- 36. | Consultation Workshop Promising practices: • concrete instruments • activities • programs • organizations that provide a successful strategy for one or more of the process requirements of RRI - Innovative & feasible approaches beyond common practice - Strive towards the RRI outcomes - Have considerable and assessable positive effects - Inspire other organizations, initiatives or contexts Session 3 From concept to practice I
- 37. | Consultation Workshop From concept to practice II 4) Organization: The Netherlands Lung Foundation (NLF) 3) Responsible Innovation Program (NWO) Promising RRI practices 2) Project: Seeking Sociable Swine (Wageningen University, VU Amsterdam, Institute for Pig Genetics) 1) Instrument: Techno-moral scenarios (Rathenau Institute)
- 38. | Consultation Workshop Goals of collecting promising RRI practices • To identify good practice standards (quality criteria) • To identify inspiring practices for others to learn from Ultimately: to help construct tools for RRI (Toolkit)
- 39. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 3: Collecting promising RRI practices Step 1: Individually fill in the provided question sheet (10 min)
- 41. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 3: Collecting promising RRI practices Step 2: Talk to your neighbor about the promising practice you identified (10 min) • Discuss why you think it is an example of a promising RRI practice • Discuss the strong and weak points of the practice • List the strong and weak points you consider most interesting on separate post-its • Green: strong points • Pink: weak points Take another 5 min to complete the question sheet
- 43. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 3: Collecting promising RRI practices Step 3: Join another couple to discuss the strong & weak points you identified (20 min) - Review how the strong or weak points identified contribute to RRI (or not)? Be specific and concrete - Cluster the different post-its with strong and weak points Provide titles
- 45. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 4: Formulating characteristics of promising RRI practices Share your clusters and explain your ideas - Most important or interesting points?
- 46. | Consultation Workshop Wrap up and lunch break
- 47. | Consultation Workshop Session 4 Stakeholder consultation Expected outcomes RRI Toolkit adapted to all potential users Objective What are your needs and constraints when practicing RRI?
- 49. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 6: Obstacles and opportunities of RRI (45 min) Stakeholder group Initials Civil Society Organisations CSO Education Community EDU Industry and Business IND Policymakers POL Researchers and Innovators RES In pairs, think about opportunities and obstacles related to working more closely with the RRI process
- 50. | Consultation Workshop Coffee break
- 51. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 7: Identify actions and solutions (35 min) Which of the identified clustered topics are the most relevant for your stakeholder group? In your stakeholder group, discuss and formulate concrete, precise, grounded and practical actions and/or solutions for the identified topics. We need more money...
- 53. | Consultation Workshop Exercise 8: Define your needs for the proposed actions and solutions (25 min) What are the actions and solutions suggested by your group? Present your list in 5 minutes
- 55. | Consultation Workshop Brainstorming... What do you NEED to make these solutions work? Exercise 8: Define your needs for the proposed actions and solutions (35 min)
- 57. | Consultation Workshop Future steps: your role Consultation Workshops Quality criteria standards & Catalogue of Good RRI Practices 2014 2015 2016 Training & Advocacy Workshops Building of the RRI Toolkit RRI & Toolkit spreading Community of Practice
- 58. Thank you for your contribution! Join the community: www.rri-tools.eu
Editor's Notes
- House rules (see script)
- Added apart from the original script: RRI Tools is a 3-year (2014-2016) project funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Program. Our Consortium consists on 26 partners forming 19 Hubs, which cover 30 countries of the European Research Area (ERA). The main goal and outcome of our project is to develop a Training and Dissemination Toolkit on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). This Toolkit aims to foster RRI by helping all stakeholders involved in the R&I system to put RRI into practice all across Europe. For this reason, several calls of the Horizon2020 Framework Program explicitly request that the proposals are linked with RRI Tools and its Toolkit.
- Added: The RRI Tools Consortium includes research centers, universities and education institutions, science museums, foundations, and research funding institutions and societies. In addition to the 19 regional Hubs, 5 networks will help spreading RRI among businesses and industries, civil society organizations, schools, science centers, research societies, and foundations all across Europe.
- Added: Probably you still wonder what we mean by the term ‘tool’. In the next slides I will show you some examples of possible tools. Keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list of the different tools already available or needed for putting RRI into practice: it is just an overview of the diversity of tools that may contribute to foster RRI. In fact, we need your input to know what you may need to implement RRI, so we can develop the appropriate tools for you. (now click the mouse to move to the ‘Inspiring case studies’) The first tool will be a review of inspiring cases where some aspects of RRI have been developed, such as the cases shown here. You may have heard about some of them or recognize some familiar to you, but there are many more. We need your contribution to know about these other cases, and you have already started collecting them before this workshop. We will be back to this later in the workshop. Extra information for moderator: The moderator can mention/explain a bit some of these practices, if she/he feels so, but the key idea of this slide is just to remind the participants of the workshop that they will contribute to the compilation of Promising RRI Practices.
- Added: Another kind of tools could be training courses and guides that help develop different aspects of RRI, such as ethics in research, open access and data privacy, how to communicate R&I in policy fora, trials or the media, etc.
- Added: Another resource could be a self-assessment tool that help evaluating how an institution or project is performing in the different aspects of RRI and where should this institution or project move to accomplish further RRI goals.
- Added: One more family of already available tools consists of guides on how to plan and implement different aspects of RRI, such as public engagement, open access, stakeholder engagement, industry-education collaborations, etc.
- Added: Finally, with ‘tool’ we also consider advocacy and dissemination resources that help spread RRI across Europe and all the stakeholder groups involved in R&I, such as our project website, videos, dissemination materials, guides on how to reach different stakeholder groups, etc.
- Added: There are many tools already there, but for most stakeholders they are unknown. The RRI Toolkit will also link to already existing tool repositories for landing RRI, making them more accessible to users, while not reinventing the wheel. Coordination with these similar initiatives and portals will be key for reaching this goal. And again, if you are aware of any portal or already available tool that you may find useful for RRI, we want to hear your voice!
- Added: Now that you know what RRI Tools is developing and looking for, let’s see how you can play your part in the project and in RRI in general, starting with what we expect from you in today’s workshop. Based on the input (promising practices, needs & constraints) from the participants of the Consultation Workshops across the 19 hubs, the project will: Define RRI quality standards; Compile RRI Case Studies; Identify currently available tools to foster RRI. All these outcomes will contribute to shape the RRI Toolkit.
- Added: The project expects from the participants of the Consultation Workshop that they: Contribute to the RRI working definition; Provide promising RRI practices and analyze them; Detail their needs and constraints as representatives of stakeholder groups in putting RRI into practice; Focus on solutions to these needs and constraints.
- Added: Now that you have an idea of what we expect from you today, let me go through the agenda of the workshop (explain it based on slides 13 and 14).
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- Added: There is a strong political motivation to foster RRI in Europe, indicated by the incorporation of the concept into the EU research funding programme Horizon 2020. Within the programme, the concept of RRI can cover a variety of issues related to research and innovation, issues now directly addressed and tackled by the EC itself. We refer to these issues as policy agendas, the six most prominent being governance, education, ethics, open access, gender and engagement. Beyond this political motivation, there is a real-felt need for RRI in society.
- Slightly modified from script: Why: As a society, we face all sorts of grand challenges, i.e. challenges that are complex and whose outcomes are uncertain - from healthy ageing to sustainability, from global health to resource security. The European Commission has identified 7 of them and called them ‘the Grand Challenges’ of our time (sustainable transport, sustainable agriculture, climate action and resource efficiency, clean energy, global poverty, inclusive and secure societies, and health and wellbeing). Extra information for moderator: Remember to open the debate / scope of RRI beyond the grand challenges: there are other research fields where RRI also may play (or not) a role, but which clearly belong to science (e.g., particle physics, paleontology, astronomy…).
- Added: Research and innovation have the power to tackle these challenges and provide solutions for some of the problems we face (picture: robocare; robots take over (some) tasks of health care providers). Moreover, innovations affect all of us. For example, smart phones altered the lives of many; they changed our view of communication and the expectations we have of others regarding communication. The fact that we all are affected by changing technologies also means that we need to be sensitive towards the needs of society and various groups within society. This is especially because the success of R&I in meeting the Grand Challenges is not guaranteed. Many innovations fail, have unexpected (negative) consequences and are controversial. For example, ‘the formula that killed Wall Street’, originally developed to quickly assess risks, has ultimately been blamed to be one of the causes of the financial crisis. Also, the so-called “golden rice” was developed with the goal of producing a fortified food to be grown and consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A, but met with strong opposition towards GMOs. Moreover, some societal needs are obviously not met (e.g., neglected diseases or neglected groups). Responsible research and innovation seeks to bring these issues into the open. It opens up the discussion about what goals we want to reach as a society and by what means we want to do so to as many participants as possible, since all of our society is affected by them.
- Added: If we think of the R&I chain as linear, implementation and practice become divorced from the process of research and innovation, and we run the risk that this negatively impacts on the potential success of the latter.
- Added: By joining hands and incorporating the views and knowledge of all sorts of stakeholders into early stages of the R&I chain, innovations will be much more tailored to the needs of society.
- Added: To what extent is RRI important according to you and why? Or, phrased differently, what would be an argument for practicing RRI for you?
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- Slightly modified from script: During the last few months we have been working, together with all members of the RRI Tools project, on a working definition of RRI. Defining what RRI is will be a continuous challenge, as this is as much an iterative process as doing RRI is. In this process, we want to involve you. For now, we propose the following definition of RRI (see script and slide). But remember: RRI is a concept under construction; we can define what it is!
- Added: The outcomes can be categorized in three clusters, and the process should fulfill a set or requirements (i.e., RRI process requirements). The clusters of outcomes we identified are (1) Learning outcomes, (2) research and innovation outcomes, and (3) solutions to societal challenges. We identified 8 process requirements, visualized in four clusters, viz. (1) diversity and inclusion, (2) anticipation and reflection, (3) openness and transparency, and (4) responsiveness and adaptive change.
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- Slightly modified from script: How We should establish an on-going process of inquiry and deliberation in which a wide range of stakeholders and citizens are involved. This process should fulfil a set of requirements that we call the process requirements of RRI. There are eight and we distributed them in four clusters. Diversity & inclusion: Diverse and inclusive RRI processes should call for the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders as early as possible in the development of science and technology (starting with agenda setting). This ought to help broaden and diversify the sources of expertise, perspectives, and ideas. Openness & transparency Openness and transparency are conditions for accountability, liability and therefore for responsibility. But openness does not automatically lead to more trust. Openness should be meaningful, by which we mean that the amount and level of openness depend on the context, situation and topic of the specific research or innovation practice, and that the information that is shared should be tailored to the needs of the stakeholders involved. Anticipation & reflection: Anticipation is not only about envisioning the future, but also about understanding how present dynamics of promising science and technology practices shape the future. Reflection refers to taking moments of looking back and incorporating lessons learned in future practices. We could say that anticipation, a prospective activity, would be useless without reflexivity, a retrospective activity, as knowing or trying to grasp the future only makes sense if you know the past. Responsiveness & adaptive change Our system of science and innovation should be open to and enable transformative change by way of responsiveness. Responsiveness means responding to emerging knowledge, perspectives, views and norms. RRI requires a capacity to change or shape direction ad hoc in response to stakeholder and public values and changing circumstances.
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- (script) We have just talked about the RI process and the requirements that are needed to come to acceptable outcomes. (added) You might recognize some of these aspects in your work or in the work of others. We would like to know more about your experiences. (script) I now want to ask you to discuss your own experience with respect to working with this kind of outcomes and requirements together with your neighbor. (added) In other words: to what extent are the outcomes and process requirements of RRI recognizable in personal experiences you have with R&I?
- Added: As preparation to this workshop we asked you to think of a promising practice of RRI and fill in a short question sheet. As an indication of what we mean by promising practices of RRI we added an information sheet about RRI and the previously shown examples of promising RRI practices identified in the Netherlands. Did anyone encounter any difficulties regarding the question sheet? Now, I’ll explain a little bit more in depth what we think promising practices of RRI should look like. First, these practices could either be concrete instruments or activities, but also programs or even organizations, as long as they contribute to a successful strategy for one or more of the process requirements of RRI. Furthermore, they are mostly seen as innovative and feasible approaches that go beyond ‘business as usual’-R&I in some relevant sense. They should not only incorporate some of the process requirements, but actively strive towards the RRI outcomes, and their effects should be positive and assessable. Also, the knowledge or skills obtained and used within a promising practice should be transferable to other organizations, initiatives or contexts. Extra information for moderator: Instruments Training modules, protocols, guidelines, public engagement methods, etc. that are used in order to support RRI processes and/or reach RRI outcomes. Projects Research projects, citizens initiatives, agenda setting projects, etc. that include RRI processes and outcomes in their practice. Programmes Regional, national and/or international policy programmes, broad societal dialogues, etc. that include RRI processes and outcomes in their practice. Organizations Companies, enterprises, foundations, governments, administrations, initiatives, etc. that have mainstreamed RRI processes and outcomes within their daily practice.
- Added: The information sheet you have been given covers 4 practices in the Netherlands that might be seen as promising practices of RRI. We will briefly go through them to give you an idea of what we mean with promising RRI practices. First, an example of an instrument that can be used in favor of RRI; techno-moral scenarios, developed by the Rathenau Institute. Techno-moral scenarios are short stories describing possible futures of technology in our society and lives, based on current developments in and knowledge of the research fields relating to the technology. Second, the project ‘Seeking Sociable Swine’. In this project researchers from different disciplines worked together to create a shared solution for animal welfare improvement in pig production. From the start of the project stakeholders were involved via a multi-stakeholder dialogue. The ‘Responsible Innovation program’ of NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) is a Dutch research funding program directed at technological developments that presumably have large (both positive and negative) impacts on individuals and societies. The program contributes to socially responsible innovation by broadening and deepening the study of ethical and societal aspects of technological trajectories in both national and international contexts. Lastly, the Netherlands Lung Foundation is an example of an organization that tries to mainstream RRI by incorporating stakeholder involvement as a ‘normal practice’ in their organization.
- Added: We want to collect promising practices of RRI in the whole of Europe to identify standards of good RRI practice and to identify activities that might be inspiring to others. This collection will ultimately help to construct tools for RRI. For this collection, we would like your help and therefore we asked you to think of an example of a promising RRI practice and fill in some questions. Was someone unable to fill in the question sheet before this workshop or to bring it along with you? (if someone did not fill in the question sheet, please give them the sheet along with part B at the beginning of the next exercise and ask them to think of a practice at this moment)
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- See script Extra information for moderator: Invite to add/comment on existing tools, whether on this exercise or through the follow-up survey. Let participants identify the core elements of each tool, but not explain/discuss them thoroughly –details can be added later, especially if references/URLs are provided-.
- Added: There is a lot more coming from RRI Tools, so we expect you to stay involved in the project. Once the Consultation Workshops are over, by November of this year, we will identify quality criteria standards that will shape a Catalogue of Good RRI Practices. This Catalogue will be part of the Toolkit, whose construction has already started and will last till the end of 2015 receiving the contributions of all of you. During 2016 a series of Training & Advocacy Workshops will take place in all the Hubs. These workshops will train stakeholders in the use of the Toolkit, advocate for RRI and serve as a user-test of the Toolkit, so we can tune it with your feedback during the whole year. The involvement of people like you will contribute to create a lively Community of Practice, whose activity and influence will continue well beyond the end of the project.