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13
Apr

How to set up a competence cell

What is a competence cell? How can you set one up?  The FoTRRIS project aims at fostering a transition towards RRI Systems. To foster this transition, we propose to set-up competence cells. A competence cell is an organisational unit, either new, or part of an existing organisation, which ultimate mission is to foster this transition. Ideally, they are at the junction

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13
Apr

How to co-create RRI projects

Would you like to know how to set up and manage a transition experiment and learn how to co-create RRI projects for tackling a glocal issue? If yes, then, this booklet will guide you through the 5-step method. Think of it as recipes for cooking a 5-course meal: this cookbook is your source of inspiration and gives you the basic

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1
Mar

Opening Up the Research Life Cycle: Innovative Methods for Open Science

‘Opening Up the Research Life Cycle: Innovative Methods for Open Science’ Review | Disseminate | Assess If you are interested in how Open Science is revolutionising the way scholarly artefacts are created, published and evaluated, SAVE THE DATE for the upcoming OpenUP conference: ‘Opening Up the Research Life Cycle: Innovative Methods for Open Science’ that will be held on 5-6 September 2018

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24
Jan

Call for Abstracts – STS Conference Graz 2018

STS Conference Graz 2018, “Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies” GRAZ, AUSTRIA, May 7-8, 2018 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS  The STS Conference Graz 2018 is the joint Annual Conference of the Science, Technology and Society Unit – Graz University of Technology, the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ) and the Institute of Advanced Studies on Science,

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20
Dec

Project concept design workshop

Based on the results of the second workshop and reflection meeting of the Competence Cell members who were developing Madonie Living Lab project concept, the third workshop was organised in the Madonie area. It introduced the project concept to a restricted audience* consisting of about 12 people including researchers, SOSVIMA (local governance) development agents and representatives from companies, policymakers and

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13
Nov

Mainstreaming RRI!

Mainstreaming RRI! University College in Ghent that participated in the Flemish Outreach workshop, makes the SDGs the main focus of their research agenda. On Thursday 26 October, Anne Snick, member of the Flemish FoTRRIS team, ran an inspirational workshop for a mixed group of 45 students, teachers and administrators of HoGent, a university college in Ghent with over 15 000

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9
Nov

FoTRRIS Outreach workshop Flanders

On 7 September the Flemish partner organised an Outreach workshop in partnership with the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium (KVAB). Before the summer they set up a competence cell that ran a transition arena (TE) on issues related to materials scarcity. This TE brought together a diverse and highly motivated group, and was very successful as

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9
Nov

FoTRRIS Outreach Workshop in Spain

On 19 June, Spanish Competence Cell (CC) members in cooperation with colleagues from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) organised an Outreach Workshop (OW) in the Faculty of Communication Sciences. The Outreach Workshop is a final event after a series of transition experiments that have been performed in Spain to validate the FoTRRIS methodology to implement the Co-RRI approach. The aim

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9
Nov

FoTRRIS at Ethics by Design workshop at PRIMA 2017 conference

Juan Pavón, from UCM, presented the FoTRRIS project at the workshop “Ethics by Design” at the PRIMA 2017 conference, held on 30 October 2017 in Nice (France). The workshop aimed at discussing the ethical consequences of the evolution of artificial intelligence. From the perspective of FoTRRIS, Juan Pavón explained that this issue requires a broader perspective by integrating the viewpoints of different

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9
Nov

FoTRRIS presented at Summer School “Towards Responsible Research and Innovation”

Juan Pavón, from UCM, presented the FoTRRIS project at the Summer School “Towards Responsible Research and Innovation”, which was held at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona on 13 September 13 2017. This event was organised by Mar Carrió from UPF in the context of the European project HEIRRI (Higher Education Institutions and

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