The consortium behind the “Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI” (SUPER MoRRI) project is pleased to announce a call for 23 country-correspondents, who will contribute to data collection activities within the project.
The preliminary program and the registration form for the Campus Gutenberg-CosmoCaixa 2019 of Scientific Communication and Culture are now available. This year we celebrate the ninth edition with a creative and innovative program, made up of more than 50 activities. We have the participation of top professionals who will share their knowledge and experiences with us in workshops, work spaces, debates, round tables, micro-cocktails, shows, etc. (more…)
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That was the majority response among the 15 researchers who attended the third version of the workshop “How to make my research more responsible? Exploring the RRI ” that was carried out in Solar Laboratory of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
For those attending the course, responsibility in science does not imply giving decision-making capacity to the non-expert public because “lack of knowledge”. Instead, they believe that the concept is much more related to the integrity of the research and to follow professional ethics.
With these first reflections, the participants embarked on an exploration of the RRI through participatory exercises and role-playing games, adapted from the material produced by the HEIRRI project. Thus, the importance of reflecting on the future impacts of research and technological development and asking for the opinion of society-without this determining decision-making-arose. In addition, the participants emphasized scientific education as the central axis to change this situation.
The workshop, given by Luisa Barbosa of the Studies Center on Science, Communication and Society of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), is part of the training program of the European project GRECO, in which UPF participates together with institutions from five European countries and a Latin American country.
GRECO seeks to put Open Science into practice through a solar energy research project and wants to demonstrate that greater social support leads to an increase in the use and integration of innovative products in this field. Thus, based on the principles of RRI and citizen participation, GRECO proposes solutions to increase the useful life of the technology, reduce its costs with higher performance and bring innovations in agriculture and architecture. The project is funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union (Grant 787289).
On May 9 Carolina Llorente taught an introductory course to the RRI in Naples. The course was taught on the first day of the 7th International Symposium on Sensor Science and lasted 1 hour and a half. A total of 20 people participated: 10 engineers and 10 doctors.
The participants were engaged in biomedical research using sensors. These sensors are used to tele-monitor people with certain diseases to possible non-invasive diagnoses. The participants were very interested in the importance of the multidisciplinary teams in research on bioengineering issues and how and what strategies could be used to incorporate the visions, needs and expectations of the patients.
One participant of the course shared a very interesting reflection: “We engineers are trained to solve problems, we have a very practical and very decisive vision of things, which is why I think it can be very useful to have meetings with doctors and patients from the beginning to take into account all physical limitations or whatever nature, it may be even more stimulating for us to have a general and complete view of the problem. “
The GRECO project promotes cooperation between citizens and scientists. Therefore, with this call, we invite all citizens to take advantage of their creativity and collective intelligence to give ideas on how to include citizens in solar energy research.
Are you interested in solar energy? Do you have novel and exciting ideas about how scientists can improve research and make it more inclusive? Then participate in our international competition!
For five days, your challenge will be to work with a team to analyze the comments of 50 scientists on how citizen-centered research could be. Afterwards, they should elaborate a practical proposal of two pages in which they describe their ideas.
Participants will receive the complete list of comments, indications and evaluation criteria of the proposals at the opening ceremony of the contest on May 17, 2019.
Pay attention to the calendar:
Do not miss the opportunity to participate and win up to 1,700 euros.
Registration closes on May 15!
The detailed information and the regulatory bases of the contest are available on the Web.
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GRECO seeks to put Open Science into practice through a solar energy research project. GRECO wants to demonstrate that greater social support leads to an increase in the use and integration of innovative products in this field. Thus, based on the principles of RRI and citizen participation, GRECO proposes solutions to increase the useful life of the technology, reduce its costs with higher performance and bring innovations in agriculture and architecture. The project is funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union (Grant 787289).
What does it mean to be responsible in science and innovation? In Europe and the United States, each year it is more common to find public calls that include in their evaluation criteria the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). However, many of the efforts to define and implement the concept have focused on these two areas.
Therefore, the Center for Studies in Science, Communication and Society of the Pompeu Fabra University as part of the GRECO project has focused on discussing this concept in other regions of the world, seeking to enrich it and adapt it to different social contexts. Thus, in the first week of April, a three-day intensive course entitled <<Considering Responsibility in Research and Innovation>> took place at the prestigious University of Sao Paulo (USP), at the Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE USP).
In this course, the participants explored how to make research projects, their processes and results more responsible, and to become familiar with the definitions, keys and dimensions of that concept. The dynamics were based mainly on practical and group work, in which the participants reflected on the RRI. Their deliberation, as well as the appropriate literature and the use of case studies, guided their work to co-create a research proposal that considered responsibility in all its forms, from open science, gender equality and inclusion to the ethics and anticipation, among others.
The course also featured some plenary sessions. Gema Revuelta, director of the center, and Luisa Barbosa, associate researcher, introduced the definition and dimensions of the concept, as well as outstanding examples in which it has been tried to put into practice. In addition, as a local representative, there was the participation of Professor Ana Paula Tavares Magalhães Tacconi, a doctor in history and advisor to the USP’s research vice-rectory, who addressed the current situation of the university in matters of open and ethical science.
At the end of the course, 16 researchers, laboratory technicians, teachers and administrators received their certification and reported their interest in implementing RRI practices in their professional field. In addition, when asked about key concepts associated with the word “responsibility”, the participants covered most of the aspects identified by the RRI experts.
With this step, the GRECO project, in which Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) participates along with institutions from five European countries and one Latin American country, continues the line of training that has already been in Spain and Germany. Our next destination will be Bulgaria.
Thus, GRECO seeks to put Open Science into practice through a solar energy research project. GRECO wants to demonstrate that greater social support leads to an increase in the use and integration of innovation products in this field. Thus, based on the principles of the RRI and citizen participation, GRECO proposes solutions to increase the useful life of the technology, reduce its costs with higher performance and bring innovations in agriculture and architecture. The project is funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union (Grant 787289).
