This document summarizes a consultation workshop on opportunities, obstacles, and solutions regarding responsible research and innovation (RRI) practices in Europe. Workshops were held in 22 countries with 411 total participants from 30 countries. Stakeholders identified opportunities like avoiding future problems, transparency of results, and innovations; obstacles like unclear ideas of RRI, lack of financial incentive, and whether RRI could slow policymaking; and solutions like clear RRI criteria and roadmaps, funding for meeting places, embedding RRI in education, and mapping potential benefits for stakeholders. The workshops aimed to understand stakeholder views and discuss key findings.

1. Opportunities, obstacles and solutions
Moderator: Melanie Smallman
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D2.2: Analysis of Opportunities, Obstacles, and Needs of the
Stakeholder Groups in RRI Practices in Europe
• What does each stakeholder think are the opportunities and
obstacles in moving towards RRI?
• What are each stakeholder’s ideas of practical measures to
help implement RRI?

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D2.2: Analysis of Opportunities, Obstacles, and Needs of the
Stakeholder Groups in RRI Practices in Europe
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• Same workshop in
22 countries
• 411 participants
from 30 countries
• Sept-Dec 2014

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• Try the workshop
ourselves
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• Present findings of the
workshops
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• Discussion of points
arising

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Activity 1
What are the Opportunities and
obstacles that can come from RRI?
In groups (5-10 people), think
about the opportunities and
obstacles presented by RRI .
One person from each group
should be prepared to feed
back.

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feedback

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Exercise 2: Tools
What tools would help you address these obstacles and
maximise the opportunities?
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• Within the scope of RRI tools and beyond
We need more
money...

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Feedback

9. Key findings from our workshops

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“In the long term a process like this can avoid significant
problems that might arise – like GMOS”
Industry, Italy
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“Transparency of all results – publishing good and bad
results – would create a more accurate evidence base for
policy”
Policymakers UK
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“To raise questions that have never been addressed”
CSO, France
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“Innovations in business models and new market niches”
Industry, Spain

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“Ideas gathered under RRI are unclear and everyone
understands them in a different way”
Researchers and CSO, Poland
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“What is my financial interest in putting energy into it?”
Industry, France
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“Would RRI slow down the evidence finding process and
thus slow down policymaking”
Policymaker, UK
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“Research is not predictable so how can we be responsible”
Researcher, Italy

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“Develop clear criteria and a roadmap for accessing RRI”
Industry, Switzerland
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“funding for structured meeting places – new or old – such
as courses, events, pilot projects” Policymakers, Sweden
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“RRI should be embedded in higher education and
teaching. This needs adapted curricula and teaching
methodologies for societal responsibility” Education,
Germany
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“Creating a map of ‘benefits’ which would clearly present
potential benefits that different stakeholders engaged in
the RRI process could gain” CSO Poland

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searchers

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Questions?

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