MARINA Workshop
How can Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) enable Blue Growth initiatives? A hands-on approach and roadmap

ESOF 2018, 10 July,  8.45 am - 10.00 am
Toulouse

MARINA will be conducting a workshop at EuroScience Open Forum - ESOF 2018, the largest interdisciplinary science meeting in Europe.

MARINA workshop, titled “How can Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) enable Blue Growth initiatives? A hands-on approach and roadmap” will showcase lessons learned and best practices from 34 local and 8 international mobilisation and mutual learning European workshops from the EU-funded RRI-project MARINA.
The MARINA workshops have actively engaged more than 1100 actors and stakeholders from policy, science, business, NGOs/ CSOs and society to debate and define actionable roadmaps of how to embed Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in Blue Growth topics. The topics cover blue energy, sustainable tourism, coastal urban development, aquaculture, fisheries, marine litter, re-invigorating old harbours, deep sea mining and nanotechnology. All these activities have resulted in a collection of lessons learned and best practices for applying RRI, participatory approach and stakeholder engagement. This collection has been boiled down into the RRI Roadmap for Blue Growth and beyond.
The workshop will be highly participative testing the RRI Roadmap for Blue Growth and Nanotechnology. Participants in groups will test the RRI-Roadmap and compete or collaborate to achieve Blue Growth initiatives using RRI. Each group will be given limited RRI resources and it will be required to compete and/ or collaborate with other groups in achieving a concise RRI common approach. At the end of the participatory exercise, the workshop facilitator will collect experiences from the participant-groups and draw conclusions. The workshop will continue with short "fire" presentations from MARINA and other EU-funded RRI-related projects for discussing and consolidating how RRI can enable Blue Growth.
The workshop will end by sharing a summary of policy-oriented RRI initiatives based on the MARINA European policy survey and experiences from engaging multi-disciplinary actors in blue growth and nanotechnology initiatives. The RRI Roadmap and its best practices do not only relate to marine fields but to any business-science-policy societal challenge field such as nanotechnology.

Speakers: GIN Iwona - Nausicaa, Centre National de la Mer, CIRA Manuel - World Ocean Network, RAICEVICH Sasa - Italian Institute of Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), SANDERS Robert - EBN, THEODOTOU SCHNEIDER Xenia - XPRO Consulting Limited.

Visit the ESOF 2018 website and get more info.

Marine Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society
RRI-SIS MARINA 2018
Science Centre AHHAA in Tartu, Estonia, 17-19 September 2018

The second annual conference of the MARINA project aims at presenting cases studies highlighting examples where the implementation of RRI dimensions, principles and topics, made a difference in the impact of the research and innovation in the context of the H2020 societal challenges.

Specific themes of interest to RRI-SIS MARINA 2018 include but are not limited to:
• Tourism and coastal cities
• Pollution caused by human and sea pressures
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Renewable energy (wave, wind, tidal)
• Marine changes caused by climate
• Marine Biotech
• Sea Transportation
• Deep Sea Mining

The submitted papers are encouraged to discuss the specific theme(s) of marine challenges in the perspective of: Governance, Public engagement and Inclusion in the RRI process; Science education and communication in RRI actions; Gender and Ethical issues in RRI initiatives; Sustainability of RRI processes.

Important Dates

• July 10, 2018: Deadline for abstract submission
• July 20, 2018: Deadline for paper submission
• August 10, 2018: Notification of acceptance
• August 31, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the papers
• September 2, 2018: deadline for conference registration
• September 17, 2018: RRI-SIS MARINA Conference

Find all details on the #MARINARRI2018 Conference and Call for Papers on the 2018 MARINA Conference website.

"How to institutionalize the Responsible Research and Innovation approach: from theory to reality"

Science Centre AHHAA in Tartu, Estonia, 18 September 2018

"Towards RRI Practices and Policies" (TRRIP 2018) is a conference organised by the H2020 MARINA project in conjunction with research institutions and policy-making bodies, aims at collecting contributions focusing on actions required to improve evidence-based policymaking related to coastal areas and seas with a specific focus on what RRI could contribute and what role institutionalisation of RRI dimensions by public administrations and research institutions could play to improve evidence-based policymaking.

Evidence shown by practical case-studies, lessons-learned and best practices adopted in supporting and applying evidence-based policy-making through RRI mechanisms and its institutionalisation by policy makers, public administrators and research institutions are sought to improve knowledge about which drivers, efforts, means and instruments could improve and institutionalise the participative collaboration of all social actors into the research and innovation process.

The ambitious outcome of the event is the definition of recommendations for improvement of evidence-based policy making for seas and coastal zones through RRI-mechanisms, and furthermore how this improvement could be institutionalised. The positive feedback arising from the actual implementation of RRI for evidence-based policy making could strengthen political commitment to RRI implementation by increasing demand from society for such an approach.

Specific themes of interest to RRI-Public Practices 2018 include but are not limited to:

• Evidence-based policy-making for seas and coastal zones;

• Conceptualisation of the science-policy interface with respect to evidence-based policy-making;

• Impact and use of scientific data and knowledge in policy-making;

• Knowledge coproduction and co-creation with stakeholders, scientists and policy makers;

• Benefits and implementation of public engagement in Research and Innovation;

• New models of governance in public administrations and research institutions related to the RRI concept;

• Gaps, barriers, lessons learnt and best practices on institutionalizing the RRI related approaches for evidence-based policy-making;

• Drivers for institutionalizing relevant RRI mechanisms in evidence-based policy making;

• Experiences and recommended actions to embed RRI in the organisational procedures of public administrations and/or research institutions;

• Change Management Approaches for institutionalising RRI.

Important Dates

•        July 10, 2018: Deadline for abstract submission

•         July 20, 2018: Deadline for paper submission

•         August 10, 2018: Notification of acceptance

•        August 31, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the papers

•        September 2, 2018: deadline for conference registration

•        September 18, 2018: RRI-SIS TRRIPP Conference

Policy workshop

The conference will also host a 3 hours policy workshop on RRI implementation in public institutions with the participation of policy makers, RRI implementers and practitioners.

Find all details on the TRRIP 2018  Conference and Call for Papers on the  Conference website.