herri_conmarco_solidThe 1st HEIRRI Conference, Teaching Responsible Research and Innovation at University, will take place in Barcelona on March 18th 2016. The event will bring together around 100 professionals from European organisations working in Research and Innovation, including higher education institutions, research centres, institutions of formal and informal learning, public institutions, industry, and civil society organisations. Preliminary conference programme here.

HEIRRI conference has opened a Call for Abstracts that welcomes contributions from different countries, contexts, and disciplines that present practices and training resources on how different elements of RRI -including research integrity, gender equality, science governance, open access, public engagement, but also anticipation, diversity, inclusion, reflection, responsiveness, sustainability, transparency and others- are being integrated into higher education curricula and the learning outcomes to which they lead.

Deadline for abstract submission is December 15th, 2015

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HEIRRI (Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation) is a European project funded under the Horizon 2020 programme (grant agreement No. 666004), and aims to integrate the concept of RRI in the science and engineering degrees.


Este blog cuenta con la colaboración de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación