TetRRIS overarching objective was threefold. First, it has aimed at supporting four European pilot territories – the Tampere Region in Finland, Karlsruhe Technology Region in Germany, Autonomous Community of Cantabria in Spain, and the Szeged-Timisoara Region in Hungary and Romania – to systematically integrate RRI practices into their territorial innovation systems and development approaches, and thereby embed value-driven transformation. Second, the project promoted mutual learning and interaction between territories, and, thirdly, it developed tools for good practices and policy recommendations that can be used to integrate RRI in the regional development in other European territories.
The TetRRIS project focused on unlocking the capacities of regional actors to explore, assess and address unanswered questions related to innovation in territories, while advancing development, raising awareness, and contributing to decision making based on scientific information. While in the first period of the project the emphasis was in the analysis of the regions and planning and preparing the pilot actions, in the second reporting period, the focus was on the implementation of regional pilots, their mutual learning and drawing policy lessons based on this work, including mutual exchange of ideas and experiences and co-creation of solutions and policy recommendations.