Responsible Research and Innovation at Technical Universities –Challenges and Opportunities

Marlene Altenhofer & Erich Griessler(Techno-Science & Societal Transformation,Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna)

1st HEIRRI Conference, Barcelona, 18 March 2016

Overview

• About the Project RRI.TU

• Workshop Design for RRI Purposes in HEI

• HEI & Industry: Challenges

About the Project RRI.TU

• Main aim: developing RRI promoting approaches and measures for the Vienna University of Technology, Austria (TU Vienna)

• Four-part workshop at TU Vienna

• Participants from research, research funding, industry, advocacy groups, and civil society

• Provision of short round-ups of previous sessions and detailed minutes

Workshop Design for RRI Purposes in HEI (I)

• Evaluation of workshop design (qualitative interviews with participants before and after workshop)

• Beneficial for identifying and developing integrative research and teaching settings in the sense of RRI

• Working both on and in the sense of RRI

Workshop Design for RRI Purposes in HEI (II)

• Heterogeneous group of participants:

Allows addressing challenges and opportunities in research and teaching settings close to industry

Allows learning from each other

• Open workshop structure:

Contents and structure of workshop not pre-set

Allows bottom-up working in an RRI sense and co-creative working

HEI & Industry: Challenges

• RRI in general:

“Blurry” definition clear working definition needed

• Open Access: Open access vs. intellectual property

• Public Engagement: “Real” engagement vs. information, how to enable PE,

enable PE at all, etc.

• Gender: Low quota of women in STEM fields

Marlene AltenhoferTechno-Science & Societal

Transformationmarlene.altenhofer@ihs.ac.at

Erich GriesslerTechno-Science & Societal

Transformationerich.griessler@ihs.ac.at

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