Purpose

Explorations of plausible futures can be based on different data sources. In this toolkit, we distinguish between quantitative, semi-quantitative and qualitative scenario tools.

Semi-quantitative tools

Qualitative tools

Purpose

The main purpose of this activity is to remind and reflect on what group members or participants have been through and to create a collective experience and shared story. Every individual will gain a shared idea of what the group has been through together

Purpose

This methodology setting aims to involve key actors from the energy and innovation systems in a common reflection and exchange in the energy transition context to discuss how to build more open, inclusive and responsive regional R&I ecosystems.

In order to provide the necessary atmosphere and trust space for the participants, it is suggested to create breakout groups of discussion after an introductory reflection.

Discuss the following questions in the breakout groups and answer them considering your personal experience:

1.  What are the drivers in energy & innovation and what are the barriers? 

2. What are the directions that you consider desirable, responsible and better aligned with societal needs and demand in the energy system?

3. Are stakeholders in the energy system able to find, meet and engage? 

4. Who should be involved in the Innovation process and when they should be involved /how? 

5. Who is in the position to influence the directionality of R&I and who should be included?

6. What might be possible drivers, enabling factors for RRI implementation in your territory? What, on the contrary, you see as main obstacles related to the possible introduction of RRI:

   •  within your organisation

   •  at territorial and policy level.

Reflect on the answers of the different groups and comment on the results.

 For an online setting, we suggest to create breakout sessions using Zoom, Microsoft Teams or similar platforms. You can also use Padlet, Miro, Mural as an online dashboard to collect the answers from the breakout sessions.

Purpose

There are many ways we can get aware of how far we are incorporating the values and ways of working in a responsible and innovative way. The self-reflection tool provides the questions that will trigger on each of us the reflection process and offers an invitation to discuss, talk, exchange ideas and to meditate on our own practices. 

ETHICS

GENDER EQUALITY

GOVERNANCE

Focuses on (1) research integrity: the prevention of unacceptable research practices; and (2) science and society: the ethical acceptability of scientific and technological developments:

• How do you ensure the integrity of your R&I practices?

• Who is involved in ethics-related reflection and decision-making for your R&I practices, and how?

• How do you provide for different values, interests and ideals?

• How do you prevent potentially harmful impacts on the public or the environment?

• What are possible strategies for preventing the negative implications of your R&I practices?

• What are possible ethical considerations for your R&I practices?
  
  

In RRI gender equality is about promoting gender balance in teams and in decision-making bodies, as well as considering always bodies, and considering always the gender dimension in research and innovation to improve the quality and social relevance of the results:

• Does your organisation have a gender equality plan?

• How do you address gender stereotypes?

• What are your organisation’s gender equality practices regarding staff and working conditions?

• How is gender equality evaluated within your organisation?

• How is gender in education, communication or training supported at your organisation?

• How is gender equality addressed in your R&I practices?

It is any form of coordination that fosters and mainstreams the process dimensions and outcomes of RRI within an organisation or in the interaction with others. It entails hard and soft multilevel structures, guidelines and arrangements with the aim to optimize our responsivity to societal challenges, needs and concerns and to consciously institutionalise responsible practices in science and innovation:

• What governance instruments does your organisation provide to foster shared responsibility in R&I?

• Who is involved in setting your R&I agenda?

• How are views from other research or societal groups included in your R&I practice?

• How do you ensure your R&I practices can adapt to unforeseen results or societal changes?

• What resource allocations allow responsible improvements to your R&I practice?

• What RRI-related training opportunities do you have (gender equality, ethics, open science, etc.)?

• What organisational changes are needed to adapt your R&I processes to stakeholders’ input?

OPEN SCIENCE

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

SCIENCE EDUCATION

Addresses issues of accessibility to and ownership of scientific information. Free and earlier access to scientific work might improve the quality of scientific research and facilitate fast innovation, constructive collaborations among peers and productive dialogue with civil society:

• How does your organisation approach open science / open access policies?

• How are open science policies integrated in your organisation?

• How transparent is the ownership of your work outcomes?

• Which parts of your work are open access?

• With whom do you share the results of your work?

• What framework conditions are made transparent to actors involved?

• How are your communication activities made accessible to diverse stakeholders?

The process of R&I is collaborative and multi actor: all societal actors (researchers, citizens, policy makers, industry, educators, etc.) work together during the whole research and innovation process in order to align its outcomes to the values, needs and expectations of European society.

• How do you involve stakeholders and the public in your work?

• What channels do you use to enable stakeholder participation in the R&I process?

• At which stage of the R&I process is it most effective for you to engage stakeholders, and why?

• What does public engagement in the decision-making process mean in your work or organisation?

• What dimensions are usually discussed during your engagement activities?

• How do you tailor R&I processes to include stakeholders with different genders, ethnicities, classes, ages, routines, experience, or levels of power?

• How do you ensure that stakeholders understand and accept their roles and the objectives of their engagement?

• What measures would have a direct impact on your multi-stakeholder engagement activities?

• What effects do your engagement activities have on public participants and on your R&I processes?

• How do you address critical aspects of public engagement activities?

Focuses on (1) enhancing the current education process to better equip citizens with the necessary knowledge and skills so they can participate in research and innovation debates; and (2) increasing the number of researchers (promote scientific vocations).

• What motivates you to involve research-and-society issues in your science education projects?

• How do you encourage stakeholder participation in R&I?

• Which stakeholders are taking part in your education activities, and why?

• How do you promote reflection on R&I in your science education activities?

• How do you promote reflection on R&I’s impacts (ethical, legal, economic, environmental, social) in your science education activities?

• What stages of the R&I process are covered in your educational activities, and why?

• How do you provide tailored information and education resources to specific stakeholder groups?

• TIP: For examples on how to answer the questions above, please refer to the online version of this method.

Purpose

Stakeholder mapping is a way of organizing all of the people who have an interest in your project, idea or product in a single visual space. This allows you to easily see who can influence your project and how each person is related to the other.

List down the core stakeholders on a big sheet of paper.

List down the sub groups of stakeholders.

Connect the stakeholders to each other and describe how they relate to each other. The focus is on roles, grouping and relations. The grouping aspect of the technique is used to organise the actors by their function. Depending on the actor in the centre, this technique emphasises the roles of the other actors in relation to central actor.

Purpose

This tool is used for listing and categorizing pre-selected ideas and go further in each of them questioning who is the main target and interested stakeholders and the type of innovation needed.

Create discussion groups and go through each idea identifying the Specific Target Interest, Type of Innovation and Opportunities associated to it. For the qualitative assessment you should assess the: coherence, feasibility, originality, engagement, shared value of each idea.

Revise each idea or established priority by analysing the identified opportunities for all of them. Sort the ideas in order of relevance based on your discussion

RIPEET is a Horizon 2020 funded project whose acronym stands for Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations in Energy Transition. The overarching goal of RIPEET is to support policy experimentations for energy transitions in different European regions by bringing together a broad range of stakeholders from the innovation ecosystem.

In the frame of this project, ERRIN is building a community of passionate regional representatives committed to shaping the regional energy vision of the future. You can join this Community of Practice (CoP) by applying to the currently open call for mirror ecosystems (call open till 31 January 2022). A peer learning scheme will be offered to the six successful applicants, who will be able to directly work with one of our three pilot ecosystems (Outer Hebrides in Scotland, Extremadura in Spain, Ostrobothnia in Finland). This is an interesting opportunity for all regions in Europe, and especially the ones trying to develop social innovation or energy transition policies, for example in the framework of their Smart Specialisation Strategy.

Interested to know more? Attend our info session on Thursday 13 January 2022 at 14:00 CET. You will learn how RIPEET can help you develop and implement social innovation policies, mobilise an ecosystem and its stakeholders and ensure inclusive transition processes.

For more information please visit this page.

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