RRI2SCALE’s point of departure is the identification of how Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is currently integrated within regions. Our pilot regions are Hordaland in Norway, Overijssel in Netherlands, Kriti in Greece and Galicia in Spain. In particular, we investigate what the key constituting elements of territorial R&I ecosystems are, what citizens think of the way RRI and R&I ecosystems interact and what their suggestions for future improvements are. This insight is triangulated with future trends on smart and intelligent cities, transport and energy as key drivers for regional sustainable development and growth (identified via Delphi), to result in techno-moral scenarios depicting potential R&I trajectories and consequent impacts on policy, socioeconomic and environmental level.

Our project outcomes will support the basis for the elaboration of Regional Agendas and Roadmaps. All activities, outcomes and impacts will be closely monitored by the RRI2SCALE Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, which will include a set of customised indicators for mapping the impact pathways between regional innovation and RRI. All project results, together with a training compendium on how to perform the project activities, will form the RRI2SCALE Toolkit for replication by other territories.

The RRI2SCALE consortium consists of 11 partners and started in January 2020. Research and Innovation Management GmbH (RIM) www.rim.eu.com  is the leader of the first Work Package that is setting the scene for RRI2SCALE. The RRI2SCALE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement nº 872526.

For more details please visit: www.rri2scale.eu