The project has successfully achieved all goals envisaged for both periods of activities:
1. we have developed an innovative workshop format for the Industrial Dialogues;
2. we have engaged a high level Advisory Board, which has reviewed and improved the format of the workshops, the structure and content of the SMART Maps as well as the structure and goals of the industrial pilots;
3. we have mapped more than 700 stakeholders across 6 countries and collected over 100 in-depth surveys, as well as performed formative and summative evaluation in each sector;
4. we have run 6 Industrial Dialogues during the period, and additional 3 trans-disciplinary and cross fertilisation dialogues;
5. we have analysed and built upon the results of the workshops and the industrial pilots, and released three SMART Maps, i.e. fulfilling the main objective of the project;
6. we have extensively communicated the ongoing process through several multimedia channels;
7. we have engaged a wide range of organisations, ensuring the impact of the project well beyond the RRI community, reaching industry and standards organisations, consultancy firms, patients associations;
8. we have released all documents and training materials, ensuring legacy of the project and further multiplying the impact of this action.
The format of the Industrial Dialogues proved to be original and effective, strongly oriented towards the co-design of concrete outcomes. This format is an important achievement that SMART-map makes available for any institution interested in organising co-design events.
The workshops have all highlighted that RRI is an eco-system, more complex than originally anticipated: the outcomes of the Dialogues triggered an important learning process, which is reflected in the final content of the SMART Maps.
A characteristic “matrix of success” grid has been used, to identify the goals of each pilot and the results that would be acceptable for each company. This grid has been used to track the progress of the experience and identify the impact of implementing RRI in each of the different contexts, and finally to identify the key benefits for the stakeholders involved.
The learning elements from the pilot experiences have been used to revise the SMART Maps, and to highlight what makes the pilots “examples to be followed”, to describe the benefits of adopting RRI, and to suggest actions each actor of the ecosystem can contribute to, in order to mainstream RRI.
A wide array of outreach and dialogue activities has been carried out, ensuring multiplying effects, strengthening the impact of the project, and paving the way for the legacy of SMART-map as well as the adoption of its results by institutions all over the world. This has been supported by a very dynamic and multimedia oriented coverage of all the activities.
A final conference in Brussels has been organised, with the key goal of going beyond the presentation of the project results: the meeting has strengthened the connections with a diverse range of subjects, who presented their experiences and demonstrated how relevant the SMART Maps are for their work.
