Responsible research & innovation (RRI) Project directory

COMPASS has compiled an overview of RRI projects and initiatives carried out in Europe over the course of the past ten years. The COMPASS project directory below contains 130 publicly funded RRI projects in Europe. Our project directory aims to facilitate the search for RRI projects in Europe. You can download search instructions here.

For a quick look at the key figures check out our factsheet. For a detailed outline, have a look at the COMPASS policy paper, which maps out approaches, objectives and thematic priorities of publicly funded RRI projects at European level, and describes their spread across Europe via budget shares and numbers of participations.

You can find more information, results and project output on responsible innovation in the European Commission’s database CORDIS, as well as the RRI Toolkit!

Over the course of the project, it has become evident that rules, regulations and funding criteria could function as external incentives to implement responsible innovation in SMEs. The Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), as coordinator of the COMPASS project, has therefore developed recommendations for EU research and innovation policy, with support of the COMPASS High Level Expert Advisory Board.

OECD BNCT

Project Acronym: OECD BNCT
Project Title: Project on Open and Responsible Innovation for Health
Funding Programme: Other
Responsible Innovation Dimension: ,
Description: Current and imminent advances in science and technology allow new forms of targeted intervention in the basic processes of human biology – including ageing, reproduction, cellular repair, immunity, and neurological function. There is a strong imperative to translate such discoveries into diagnostics and therapies that address grand health challenges -- such as Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, infectious diseases – but substantial challenges remain in terms of constructing the right economic, ethical and social context for innovation and access. One set of policy challenges has to do with balancing the imperatives of open innovation, commercialisation, and access. How to ensure that advanced therapies will develop in a socially responsible and sustainable manner? Objectives 1. Convene stakeholders to discuss societal questions in emerging and converging technologies in order to drive innovation health. Understand stakeholder roles, needs and options in ethical, legal, and societal questions. 2. To learn from experiences and findings across initiatives, innovation systems, and jurisdictions how to integrate values of open and responsible innovation in the development and use of advanced therapies. 3. Develop and translate discoveries in research and technology into advanced therapeutics.

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