OPEN TO THE WORLD ENCOURAGING ENGAGEMENT IN RRI

OPEN TO THE WORLD – ENCOURAGING ENGAGEMENT IN RRI Responsible Research and Innovation – Science for Society and Economy Conference Poznań, Poland, 29 November 2017 Norbert Steinhaus Bonn Science Shop Living Knowledge Network norbert. steinhaus@wilabonn. de www. livingknowledge. org

The Three Os Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World Open Science aims … to make research more open, global, collaborative, creative and closer to society. https: //ec. europa. eu/digital-single-market/en/open-science Open Innovation wants … government, industry, academia and civil participants work together to co-create the future and drive structural changes… https: //ec. europa. eu/digital-single-market/en/open-innovation-20

Sustainable Development Goal 17 SDG 17 recognizes multistakeholder partnerships as important vehicles for mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technologies … to support the achievement of the SDGs. https: //sustainabledevelopment. un. org/sdinaction SDG 17 seeks to encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.

“. . . the best science for the world and not just the best science in the world” Morten Østergaard, Denmark Responsibility = Response Ability

RRI in Practice consists of designing and implementing R&I policy that will: • engage society more broadly in its research and innovation activities, • increase access to scientific results, • ensure gender equality, in both the research process and research content, • take into account the ethical dimension, and • promote formal and informal science education. http: //ec. europa. eu/programmes/horizon 2020/en/h 2020 -section/science-and-society

Encouraging Engagement Public Engagement (PE) and its benefits • PE contributes to building a more scientifically literate society able to actively participate in and support democratic processes, and science and technology developments, • PE injects differing perspectives and creativity in research design and results • PE contributes to fostering more societally relevant and desirable research and innovation outcomes to help us tackle societal challenges.

Encouraging Engagement Public Engagement implies • the establishment of iterative and inclusive participatory multi -actor dialogues between researchers, policy makers, industry and civil society organisations, NGOs, and citizens; • fostering mutual understanding and co-creating research and innovation outcomes and policy agendas for an effective tackling of societal challenges • fostering wider acceptability of results.

Encouraging Engagement Why is worth it doing RRI with CSOs? • CSOs bring in skills and increase the sources of good ideas and thus the innovation potential. • CSO’s role can also be that of a kind of “reality check”, checking the relevancy and compatibility of R&I processes and outputs • CSOs can provide additional knowledge about their issues • CSOs can broaden other stakeholders’ perspectives. • CSOs can give access to new related networks CSO engagement in the innovation and policy agenda setting process is highly valuable and much appreciated as it helps their better societal embedding and acceptance.

Encouraging Engagement What is in it for CSOs? • CSOs can have impact on the development in their fields of expertise and engagement and on future innovations that might influence them and their members • CSOs can develop more knowledge about their issues • CSOs can broaden their own perspective. • CSOs can get help solving their problems, or can get access to funding for solving these problems. • CSOs can get access to new networks related to their field of activity, for finding new alliances and networks.

Encouraging Engagement What to consider when involving CSOs? • In RRI CSO participation should be considered as an "endeavour to learn" for all involved actors. • Possible failures shall be seen as a value or starting point to be understood for improvement. • The existing diversity of formats and tools of public engagement, participation in research and co-design of R&I processes should be used and / or recombined. It is necessary to create spaces and arenas in which exchange and common learning in the otherwise rather separate spheres of society and science can take place.

Encouraging Engagement Be aware! • • RRI doesn’t mean to continue with “business as usual” RRI is not a box-ticking exercise. RRI demands for an active attitude Consider listening to all stakeholders, take their concerns serious Learn about their obstacles and needs Deal with them in an open and reflected way CSO participation in research does not mean to reduce them to recipients for information or cheap data miners for researchers Listen – anticipate – reflect – act! Change from pure listening to active, receptive and reflective listening - and then act.

Encouraging Engagement How to put this into practice? • Public engagement processes shall be transparent and lead to trusting working relationships. • Research integrity is at the heart of activities and should ensure real and honest commitment, data and privacy protection. • The right number and relevant people have to be involved to strive for a balanced set of concerned perspectives/interests and inclusiveness. • Particular interests shall not dominate PE processes. • All involved stakeholders have to be kept informed and all processes and outcomes have to be well communicated. • Every practice should be reviewed and evaluated to improve it. Crucial questions: Who is concerned and who can decide on what? What is the legitimacy of certain perspectives (e. g. research, CSO, policy? )? How to deal with differences in knowledge, resources, power and specific rationalities and concern?

RRI – CSOs and Science Shops? Shaping the R&I process CSOs can be co-designers in public engagement activities or research projects to put their specific knowledge and expertise into a research process e. g to define a specific research question or to shape the regional R&I development process. This is where Science Shops can enter the stage. Gathering data CSOs and citizens can be co-researchers by making observations and interpretations in Science Shop supported research fields. Although in most cases scientists define the research process, non -professional researchers can contribute to the research with everyday life skills or common sense/lay knowledge.

RRI – CSOs and Science Shops? Basic Idea • Questions from civil society organisations (and other stakeholders) are rephrased to scientific research topics which will be approached by a researcher or students under supervision of a professor. • The research will lead to a report (or other product) which is made to be of use to the client. Advanced Idea • Sciences Shops take the role of a Civil Society (Stakeholder) Contact Point to lead tasks in mediating society-science interactions through various methodologies - supporting citizen science, service learning, co-creation, or - organising science cafés, focus groups, scenario workshops, or - developing training and education for specific topics and needs www. livingknowledge. org

Science Shops & RRI Science Shops ‚live‘ Engagement with and for Society Science Shops contribute to education Science Shops are responsive Science Shops anticipate with meaningful openness Science Shops results are free accessible Science Shops are a ‚best practice‘ to Responsible Research & Innovation www. livingknowledge. org

Thank you for your attention! Norbert Steinhaus norbert. steinhaus@wilabonn. de; +. 49. 228. 2016122 International Science Shop Network ‘Living Knowledge’ www. livingknowledge. org Internat. Science Shop Contact Point livingknowledge@wilabonn. de Living Knowledge Discussion List (LIVINGKNOWLEDGE-L@LISTS. UCC. IE), Twitter: @Science. Shops Facebook: https: //www. facebook. com/livingknowledge Wissenschaftsladen Bonn www. wilabonn. de RRI Tools www. rri-tools. eu