FoTRRIS News

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

Read more: FoTRRIS at Ethics by Design workshop at PRIMA 2017 conference

FoTRRIS participates in the SIS-RRI: Science, Innovation and Society: achieving Responsible Research and Innovation conference UCM and CESIE presented a common article “Developing RRI practices: the role of ICT in Stakeholders’ Knowledge Exchange and Co-Creation Processes” at the SIS-RRI Conference which was held in Rome on 25-26 September 2017. “The conference’s overall aim is to establish, organise and activate a Responsible

Read more: FoTRRIS participates in the SIS-RRI conference

On 8 September 2017 the Italian (Sicilian) 6-hour Outreach Workshop was organised. It was moderated by Transition Experiment’s (TE) facilitator Mr. Fabio Montagnino with the support of the Competence Cell members. The overall aim of the workshop was to disseminate information about the Co-RRI TE in Italy and to receive external feedback of the process, results and impact. Additionally, this workshop

Read more: Outreach Workshop in Italy

Today big societal challenges are at the forefront of the political agenda. The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) embody the political commitment to work towards a more just and sustainable world. In terms of R&I policy, the focus on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an invitation to the R&I community to address these societal needs in a participatory, open and

Read more: FoTRRIS  Back Casting Exercise

To broaden the outreach of the Co-RRI transition experiment of FoTRRIS in Austria, the IFZ team (Sandra Karner, Anita Thaler and Magdalena Wicher) organised an expert workshop in Graz. Eight Austrian RRI experts came on 12th of July and discussed key learnings on the concrete co-RRI experiment on sustainable food systems, and more generally how the ‘co-RRIness’ of the Austrian

Read more: Austrian Outreach/Validation Workshop

The FoTRRIS online platform is now directly available from the FoTRRIS website, under the “resources” header. This platform allows the FoTRRIS’ transition arenas and their related competence cells in our five countries (Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Italy and Spain) to work collaboratively on designing a co-RRI research project concept. Transition arenas are spaces where various actors of all kind (research, civil society,

Read more: NEWS FoTRRIS PLATFORM IS NOW ACCESSIBLE ONLINE FROM THE FOTRRIS WEBSITE

As part of FoTRRIS, ESSRG explored the possibilities for local economic development at the Wekerle district of Budapest, Hungary. Wekerle Local Economic Development Strategy Through this 3-months long process, our aim has been to create a common vision for a local economic development strategy by bringing together the civil, business, and public sector. More specifically, we’ve had to engage local economic

Read more: Feedback of the Hungarian Transition Experiment

The FoTRRIS – Foster Transition towards Responsible Research and Innovation Systems (Horizon 2020 programme) – project objective is to offer efficient and effective methods for researchers, citizens, businesses and policy-makers to solve ‘glocal’ challenges in a co-RRI way. The methodology of the project relies on the design of transition arenas associated with a support of a competence cell. Transition arenas are

Read more: FoTRRIS participates in Right to the Future event

ESSRG (Environmental Social Science Research Group) Ltd, the Hungarian partner of the FoTRRIS Horizon 2020 project, is organising a 3-month long exploration into the possibilities for local economy development in close cooperation with Transition Wekerle (TW), Budapest, Hungary. “Wekerle Local Economic Development Strategy Workshop” The aim is to create a common vision for a local economic development strategy by bringing

Read more: Overview of the Hungarian Transition Experiment

The second workshop in Italy was held on 3 March 2017 at EXMA, a local meeting space, in Petralia Sottana in the Madonie region. The premises of the former Municipal Slaughterhouse which hosted the meeting have become the site of Officine Creative Madonie (EXMA), with micro-ateliers equipped to support prototype and production processes for start-ups and professionals operating in the

Read more: Second workshop in Italy: Visioning