Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MARINA (Marine Knowledge Sharing Platform for Federating Responsible Research and Innovation Communities)
Période du rapport: 2017-08-01 au 2019-04-30
Six specific objectives were targeted:
1. Engage citizens and stakeholders in a highly participatory debate/consultation/process for federating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) communities and initiatives,
2. Create and validate a comprehensive networking and knowledge sharing platform (KSP) for relevant projects, service contracts, marine actors, educational institutions and citizens, to support and enable discussion, Mobilization and Mutual Learning, knowledge exchange and co-production of different communities related to the MARINA key strategic issues (environmental issues, sustainable development, policies and educational challenges) in the perspectives of the societal challenges and the RRI topics.
3. Federate RRI communities including citizens in the KSP through the online Web Knowledge Sharing Platform (WKSP), for experimentation, training and knowledge and expectation capturing to address the societal challenges by embedding RRI and for facilitating the dialogue and shared understanding among scientists, policymakers, citizens and other stakeholders.
4. Deliver guidelines and good practices for RRI application in innovation processes and promote them to CSOs, industry stakeholders, policy and decision makers, research funders, educational institutions to foster their adoption as a potential benchmark in setting-up RRI processes.
5. Provide recommendations and policy options for RRI relating it to Blue Growth and its challenges at EU, national and sub-national levels.
6. Communicate and Disseminate broadly in Europe from the beginning of the project for enabling the MARINA activities and creating RRI and marine issues awareness; as well as outside Europe through the partners’ and associated partners’ wide professional and social networks for highlighting the European leadership in RRI governance.
- federating RRI actors and communities. The established common knowledge (ontology), the MML workshops, the MARINA WKSP platform, the spillover and the mobilization of this Science-Society-Industry-Policy Interface are supporting the process of federation among different communities and stakeholders,
- consolidating and advancing knowledge of science with and for society in Europe and improving the access to existing knowledge, know-how and experience. The Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) workshops facilitate the creation of common visions, enable knowledge sharing and the identification of stakeholders views, needs and constraints in the field of marine related societal challenges. Furthermore, the MARINA WKSP platform makes this knowledge more accessible,
- reducing institutional costs and effort in applying RRI principles through the improvement of the knowledge, to create societal awareness and the establishment of federated communities to facilitate the application of the RRI principles,
- facilitate the spill-over of RRI to regions of Europe that are currently lagging behind through the identification of the laggards, their reasons and how these may be overcome by extracting lessons and practices from Denmark and Sweden where RRI is practiced as well as through the dissemination of strategy to spill-over and how. Enable laggards to improve in RRI practices through the steps and explanations provided in the RRI Roadmap.
- creating links among policy makers and RRI implementers bridging the science-policy gap. These interactions will increase the capacity of policy makers to engage with the large public in taking decisions of common interest, improving the bottom-up approach to tackling complex societal challenges. The cooperation performed through the mobilization of this Science-Society-Industry-Policy Interface will also enable the reduction of the institutional costs related to the strategies and actions fostering the adoption of the best approaches for institutionalizing RRI principles and effort.