Department

Research

Staff

Collaborate

Laboratories

Magazine Contacts
IT

Start

March 2020

End

September 2022

Status

Completed

En-RRI. Enhancing responsible research and innovation in the co-creation of science and technology

Start

March 2020

End

September 2022

Status

Completed

The En-RRI project aims to rethink the relationship between science, technology and society through the production of empirical data, scalable support actions and guidelines to foster the integration of bottom-up co-creation initiatives in the framework of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) policies.
More specifically, the main objectives of En-RRI are:

  • to produce reliable and empirically grounded knowledge of the social dynamics, material conditions and cultural views on science and society that characterize some emblematic bottom-up co-creation initiatives in Italy;
  • collaborate with the organizers of these initiatives to create actions and tools consistent with RRI principles;
  • translate this work into guidelines and other tools that can be used to expand RRI beyond institutional forms of innovation.

En-RRI will carry out theoretically qualitative empirical research on some co-creation initiatives belonging to 3 main sectors: environment, health and medicine, ICT, and digital production to achieve these goals.
In the project's final phase, En-RRI will work on translating the empirical results into implementable tools, including a "bottom-up RRI toolkit", to promote RRI practices and policies related to citizens, grassroots initiatives, and DIY innovation.