The expected impacts can be articulated as follows:
1. Contribute to greater involvement of all stakeholders in R&I, and a better and more sustainable engagement with citizens and society as a whole (Impact 1)
2. Consortia are expected to evaluate their activities and provide evidence of societal, democratic, economic, and scientific impacts of institutional changes (Impact 2)
3. It is expected that the topic will support a significant number of impactful and sustainable institutional changes in partner organizations (Impact 3)
These are "overall impacts", related to the project as a whole.
As for 1., ResBios can be considered as a way to open new institutional spaces of dialogue and engagement with society, experimented in the "pro-active strand" (WP3, 4, 5), and consolidated in the institutional strand (WP6).
The involvement of societal actors has been activated since the co-designing phase (see WP2), even if this activity, and the subsequent implementation of GAs in the second reporting period (WP3, 4, and 5), was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in several ways and by other events, including Russia's war against Ukraine. Despite the difficulties, the implementation of the GAs, and the activities aimed at the sustainability of the institutional changes produced (WP6), have shown a strong ability to effectively and stably involve the various types of stakeholders.
As for 2., ResBios is focused on Bioscience, which is one of the scientific fields with high societal, environmental, economic, etc. relevance and impacts. The project aimed at increasing such impact by making the outcome of research more accepted by other societal actors, and by reinforcing the position of the scientific actors in society. To achieve that, the GAs (WPs 3,4,5), as “place-based” and “contextualized” actions, have developed a set of institutional actions and instruments to create synergies between scientific and other actors. In carrying out these actions, they have been supported by technical assistance and networking (WP6), mentoring and mutual learning (WP7), and communication/dissemination activities, which have contributed to producing or starting important impacts in bringing the world of biosciences closer to RRI, as well as similar approaches (Open Science, citizen science, etc.). Suffice it to consider, among other things, the mutual learning workshops, the Manifesto on responsible biosciences, the development of tools for dialogue with society, the final conference, and the establishment and launch of the International Network for Responsible Biosciences.
As for 3., the project has developed at 15 GAs within the involved “implementing” organizations. Each GA has allowed the achievement of several institutional changes (see the related “success stories”) and the co-drafting of sustainability and support plans (WP6). A further “sui generis” GA among the involved partner has been also developed to establish the mentioned International Network for Responsible Bioscience to provide international backing to the institutional change promoted during ResBios beyond the end of the project, thus supporting the sustainability of the changes achieved.
There is also a fourth impact:
4. Consortia are expected to contribute to one or more of the MoRRI indicators, and to the Sustainable Development Goals (for instance goals 4, 5, 9, 12, 16 or 17) (Impact 4)
This impact is analytical in nature, and mainly pursued through the GAs implementation (WPs3, 4 and 5) and the activity carried out to support the achievement of the institutional change (WP6).
