(Chair: Rosaria Conte, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies - CNR, Italy)

Director of the Department of Social Science and Humanities, Cultural Heritage of CNR, Italy, Maître de cérémonie

Video on Responsible Research and Innovation

President of National Research Council of Italy

European Commissioner for Research Science and Innovation, Portugal (TBC)

Italian Minister of Education University and Research, Italy

Presentation of the Draft Rome Declaration 

Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, United Kingdom, Why responsible research and innovation matters

Foundation La Caixa, Spain How to achieve Responsible Research and Innovation?

(Chair: Massimiano Bucchi, University of Trento, Italy)

Former Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology, Belgium, Science and Society at the heart of the European Research Area

Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies – CNR, Italy
Synthesis of the Conference Background Paper

During the Conference Morning Sessions, participants will have the opportunity to engage with high-level speakers on issues revolving around six main key areas that have been at the core of the EU concern in the relationship Science/Society: public engagement, gender equality, science education, ethics, open science and governance.
In particular, the contribution provided by the EU through the Framework Programmes 6 and 7 (FP6 and FP7) will be discussed. More than 300 projects in the areas of ‘Science and Society’ (SaS-FP6) and ‘Science for Society’ (SiS-FP7) have been promoted and funded. These activities are crucial to a better organization of the whole European Research Area, especially in light of the fact that the Horizon 2020 Work Programme (2014-2015) has already allocated 91 million of Euros to the programme ‘Science with and for Society’ (SwafS-Horizon 2020).
In each of the six considered areas, SaS-FP6 and SiS-FP7 have provided valuable contribution both as a way of organizing research and by promoting specific activities and academic studies. The same issues will be further explored in SwafS-Horizon 2020.
The Conference will also explore how these issues have been discussed and debated in other parts of the world. What can the EU learn from other programmes connecting science and society? To what extent the methods and organization of the EU activities could be valuable for the programmes of EU member countries and for other continents?
These and other questions will be addressed in order to set the basis for “Achieving Responsible Research and Innovation”.

Speakers:

Catherine Franche, (Ecsite – European Network of Science Centres and

Museums, Belgium)

Niels Mejlgaard, (Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research

Policy, Denmark)

Jacqueline Broerse, (Athena Institute of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Rinie Van Est, (Rathenau Instituut, The Netherlands)

Chair: Norbert Steinhaus, (Institute for Knowledge Mobilization, Germany)

Co-chair: Tommaso Castellani, (Institute for Research on Population and

Social Policies, CNR, Italy)

Speakers:

Anke Lipinsky, (GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)

Flaminia Saccà, (University of Tuscia, Italy)

Sheena Laursen, (Experimentarium, Denmark)

Chair: Anne Pepin, (Mission for the Place of Women at CNRS, France)

Co-chair: Rossella Palomba, (Institute for Research on Population and

Social Policies, CNR, Italy)

Speakers:

Rosina Malagrida, (IrsiCaixa, Spain)

Vittorio Bo, (Science Festival of Genoa, Italy)

Fiorenzo Galli, (National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da

Vinci, Italy)

Charly Ryan, (University of Winchester, United Kingdoms)

Chair: Genma Revuelta, (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

Co-chair: Adriana Valente, (Institute for Research on Population and

Social Policies, CNR, Italy)

Speakers:

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, (Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France)

Jonathan Mongomery, (University College London, United Kingdom)

Emmanuel Lulin, (Ethics L'OREAL, France) (TBC)

Richard Smith, (Durham University, United Kingdom)

Daniele Fanelli, (University of Montreal, Canada)

Chair: Cinzia Caporale, (CNR, National Committee of Bioethics, Italy)

Co-chair: Angela Taraborrelli, (Dipartimento Scienze umane e sociali, patrimonio culturale - CNR, Italy)

Speakers:

Alan Winfield, (University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom)

Cameron Neylon, (PLOS, United Kingdom)

Alma Swan, (SPARC Europe, United Kingdom)

Bernd Pulverer, (The EMBO Journal, Germany)

Chair: Roger Strand, (University of Bergen, Norway)

Co-chair: Carla Basili, (CERIS – CNR, Italy)

Speakers:

Geert Munnichs, (Rathenau Instituut, The Nederlands)

Kjetil Rommetveit, (University of Bergen, Norway)

Luigi Amodio, (IDIS-Città della Scienza Foundation, Italy)

Chair: Jan Staman, (Rathenau Institute, The Netherlands)

Co-chair: Emanuela Reale, (CERIS – CNR, Italy)

(Chair: Massimiano Bucchi, University of Trento, Italy)

The Co-chairs of morning parallel sessions

Key messages from the morning Parallel Sessions

This dynamic communication method was chosen to introduce the future scientific challenges to be addressed within the ‘Science with and for Society’ Programme.
The underlying idea is that the scientific community interacts on a daily basis with a large number of different groups: first, policy-makers and policy advisers, which decide the nature and the amount of resources should be devoted to research; second, the business community, which is looking for knowledge exploitation for its commerce; and third, civil society, which eventually assesses the potentials and dangers associated to innovative know-how and practices.
The World Café will reflect these rich and complex networks, allowing multiple discussions on an interdisciplinary basis.
Horizon 2020 launches new challenges for what concerns the integration of the scientific activity into the economic, social, cultural and political landscape. The World Café, and the whole Conference, will identify standards and practices to match ethical issues, gender equality, regional cohesion, research integrity, collaboration between private and public organizations, to mention just a few.
This will offer a unique opportunity to capitalize the experiences of the past and to envisage the directions that they should take in the next activities promoted within Horizon 2020 as well as through national academic programmes. Keeping an eye on the past, but always looking at the future.

(Chair: Rosaria Conte, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies – CNR, Italy)

John Goddard (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) The example of the Civic universities

Barbara de Micheli (Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Italy) The example of gender equality plans in research performing organisations

Round Tables

• What do we mean by institutional changes in research performing organisations?
• How to implement institutional changes to foster RRI?

(Chair: Rossella Palomba, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, CNR)

Adalheidur Jonsdottir (The Icelandic Centre for Research, Iceland) The role of the National Contact Points in federating the RRI community

Aki Menevidis (Fraunhofer IPK, Germany) RRI forum & Observatory

Round Tables

• What are the benefits of an RRI community?
• How to build a sustainable RRI community?

(Chair: Emanuela Reale, CERIS - CNR, Italy)

Riccardo Pietrabissa (Politecnico University of Milan, Italy) Embedding RRI in the innovation process

Frank Miedema (UMC Utrecht and Science in Transition, The Netherlands) Needs and opportunities to embed RRI from the perspective of a practicing scientist

Round Tables

• How to embed RRI in the design of the research and innovation programmes?
• How to implement RRI in projects?

(Chair: Daniele Archibugi, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, CNR, Italy)

Cristina Escrigas (Global University Network for Innovation, Spain) UNESCO Chair in Community-based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Matthias Kaiser (University of Bergen, Norway) RRI needs to go Global

Round Tables

• Mapping the international dimension of RRI?
• What common ground arises from these experiences?

(Chair: Tommaso Castellani, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, CNR, Italy)

Claudia Neubauer (Fondation Sciences Citoyennes, France) The perspective of the Horizon 2020 Advisory group on Science with and for Society

Lars Kluver (Danish Board of Technology, Denmark) Social impact and Risk Assessment of RRI

Round Tables

• What priorities for Science with and for Society for the coming years?
• Translating priorities into topics for the future calls for proposals?

(Chair: Adriana Valente, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, CNR, Italy)

Fern Wickson (Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology, Norway) The evolutionary past, present and future of RRI

Erich Griessler (Institute for Advanced Studies of Wien, Austria) RRI: Challenges of a complex concept in research and policy making

Round Table

• How could RRI evolve in the future?
• What does this evolution of RRI imply for future research and innovation policies?

(Chair: Angela Taraborrelli, Dipartimento Scienze umane e sociali, patrimonio culturale - CNR)

Rosaria Conte, Research Director, Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies - CNR
Key messages from the world cafè sessions on the Rome Declaration

Katia Insogna, Agency for the Promotion of European Research, H2020 National Contact Point, Italy

Welcome and  Introduction to the session

The main objective of the Science with and for Society networking event is to provide first-hand information by the European Commission officials about the first Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society – 2015 calls, launched on the 11th December 2013, and to bring all stakeholders together (universities, research institutions, civil society organisations, SMEs, public bodies, Science Centres etc.), in order to meet potential coordinators and partners in a fruitful networking environment.

This event will be dedicated to a Marketplace for the presentation of the results of SaS FP6 and SiS FP7 projects. The event is open to anybody who wish to present results that were achieved while conducting research related to one of the six RRI Keys.

In the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano (TBC)

(Chair: Daniele Archibugi, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, CNR, Italy)

What’s next: development of Science in Society

European Research Area: a route to support Science in Society