About the event

RRI4Real summit has to be postponed

We're sorry to inform you that due to the Corona virus outbreak not being neutralised yet, the Italian government has ordered the closing of schools and universities as well as the cancellation of all cultural events and conferences until 3 April 2020.

Therefore the RRI4Real summit cannot take place as originally planned.

All guests and speakers will be notified by email. We will discuss with the organising team if and how the event can take place in alternative ways (hopefully by postponing it to 29-30 April 2020) either in presence or virtually. We hope to be in touch soon.

The FIT4RRI consortium organises its summit “RRI for real” marking the end of our three-year project. FIT4RRI brought together experts from nine European countries, who analysed and tested how to foster the real uptake of Responsible Research & Innovation and Open Science. The summit starts a new collaborative phase of shaping the future of open science and society relations.

Programme

8:30	Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:30	Welcome
9:40	RRI for real – How to shape the future of open Science & Society relations (Andrea Riccio, project coordinator FIT4RRI)
10:00	Keynotes Emilia Garito Dr. Kemal Ahson - Retrospect & Prospect
10:45	Coffee Break
11:15	Strand 1: RRI culture and skills Lightning Talk: Lessons from FIT4RRI (Pedro Principe, University of Minho)
11:30	Breakout Sessions Session 1: Lessons Learned from ORION Open Science and RRI Training (Zoe Ingram, Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine) The interactive workshop intends to share the lessons learned and best practices from the ORION Open Science training and inspire the participants to push open science forward through training. Session 2: Influencing policymaking with ethical evidence: the PRO-RES Project (Dr Ron Iphofen, FAcSS) This interactive workshop will seek help, suggestions and advice from attendees about how best to encourage policymakers to look for and use research evidence that has been conducted ethically and with integrity. Session 3: Community involvement for RRI: towards the development of an RRI trainers community of practice (Emma Lazzeri, CNR-ISTI, Pedro Principe, University of Minho) This session aims to identify gaps and challenges between RRI and OS training and to suggest actions towards the development of a RRI trainers community of practice within RFPO and EOSC.
12:30	Lunch (Poster exhibition)
13:45	Strand 2: RRI Institutional change Lightning Talk: Lessons from FIT4RRI (Nikos Zaharis, SEERC)
14:00	Breakout Sessions Session 1: How to plan an RRI action in an organisation (Lise Degn, Aarhus University - GRACE & Nikos Zaharis, SEERC - TeRRItoria) This session will engage participants in constructive discussions on the potentials, processes and challenges related to intitutional change. Session 2: Co-designing and co-creating Research and Innovation policies: the experiences of European Policy Labs and future perspectives (Francesca Rizzo, Allessandro Deserti, Margot Bezzi - APRE) The workshop will describe a number of experiences of co-creation in policy making in Europe. Session 3: RISE: the role of cooperation in frugal innovation (Francesco Niglia, Link Campus University, Rome) The RISE (Responsible innovation in Sustainable Ecosystems) workshop targets at arguing about the ethics of Open Science and implication in the Citizens' Science feasibility. The final scope will be to list some key elements for future research.
15:00	Plenary – Results of workshops 1 & 2
15:45	Coffee break
16:15	Interactive Sessions Session 1: Open Science Workflows à la carte (Elena Giglia, University of Turin) After a short introduction about the importance of Open Science participants will do group activities with the help of Open Science cards Session 2: Liter of Light Italia Workshop (Giorgio Giorgi, Liter of Light) During the event Liter of Light's team will explain the "Liter Of Light At Night" project and his open source approach with the support of media and video materials. After that will be organized a workshop where will be built n.30 solar lantern Session 3: RRI training toolkit: testing & assessment session (Pedro Principe, University of Minho) The session aims at testing the online courses developed within the FIT4RRI training activities and obtain feedback on the user assessment of the courses and toolkit content.
17:45	Reception (poster exhibition)
19:30	Dinner at Classical Art Museum

8:30	Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:30	Introduction & Wrap up of day 1

9:45	Keynote: The future of RRI
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Strand 3: RRI in policies Lightning Talk: Lessons from FIT4RRI (Luciano D'Andrea, K&I)
11:15	Breakout Sessions Session 1: Reflecting on RRI - the Societal Readiness Thinking Tool (Ingeborg Meijer, CWTS, Leiden University) The objective of the session is to demonstrate the Thinking Tool and then discuss whether it can serve as a basis to further develop it for SWafS projects self assessment of RRI. Session 2: The culture change journey of implementing RRI: Learnings from previous SwafS projects (Prof. Alexander Gerber, Institute for Science & Innovation Communication, Germany) Process-oriented practice-workshop on how to make RRI work locally / institutionally. Session 3: How RRI can become a cross-cutting issue in all research fields? (Erich Griessler, New HoRRIzon project) The session invites researchers, research funders, representatives of CSOs and policy makers to a dialogue on how to implement RRI in different research disciplines and to discuss the merits and challenges of such an approach.
12:15	Final plenary with workshop results
13:00	Lunch (poster exhibition)

Keynote Speakers

Software engineering graduated at La Sapienza University in Roma, Emilia worked as an International Sales Manager for Alenia Marconi Systems (Leonardo Finmeccanica Group), within the Italian National Defence industrial branch, and as a Project Finance business developer for her own Project Finance Ingegneria S.r.l. in Northern Italy.

Since 2010, Emilia is founder and CEO of Quantum Leap IP, leader in Technology Transfer and Open Innovation in Italy, aimed to help the Italian Research in promoting the IPRs exploitation and enhancing a tech transfer know-how through its own Open Innovation methodology.

She is also EU expert in AI and Robotics for evaluating the H2020 European Projects; she is a member of the AgID (Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale) AI Task Force Coordination Group and she is also the Ambassador of XPRIZE foundation in AI and Avatar Technology. In this matter she scouts teams in Italy to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies in order to improve the living standards in the fields of healthcare, education, energy and environment.

Emilia Garito is one of the top 150 Italian scientists and innovation businesswomen for the StartupItalia! business editor and, as a charitable activity, she is the curator of TEDxRoma Conference and the TEDx Italian Ambassador.

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Registration

You can register via Eventbrite. You can also download the App and make your onsite registration with your mobile phone.

Invitation to bring posters

We invite you to bring posters which display your work or project. If you are bringing a poster please be available for questions during the breaks.
The poster should be in A0 (portrait) or A1 (portrait or landscape) formate. You will be asked for a short abstract in the registration. Please bring your printed poster to the event.

Venue

The final summit will take place at Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5. The main conference tracks and plenaries will take place at Edificio CU003 (Building CU003) - Facoltà di Lettere (Literature Faculty) - Aula ODEION (ODEION hall).

Download the map of university buildings

Useful information

From Germany/Austria: There is a daily night train between Munich central station/Vienna and Rome. More information https://www.nightjet.com/en/reiseziele/italien/rom.html

If you arrive by airplane the best option to arrive in Rome, from both Leonardo da Vinci (Fiumicino) and Ciampino airport, is to reach Termini Railway station.

Leonardo express is a non-stop train service that, every 15 minutes, connects Fiumicino airport to Roma Termini railway station. Tickets are available at ticket office on starting platform or on https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html (ensure to fill the “From” field of the form with “Fiumicino Aeroporto” and the “To” field with “Roma Termini”)

Shuttle services are available from Ciampino airport to Roma Termini Railway station:

https://www.terravision.eu/
https://www.sitbusshuttle.com/en/ciampino/

You can reach Sapienza campus by:

15 minutes walk from Termini railway station (exiting from the station, on the right), see map.
Or you can save 5 minute walk, taking metro B - direction Rebibbia/Jonio. Get off first stop (Castro Pretorio) and follow the route, see map.

There is a bike rental service by Uber available. For IOS and Android

Once in Sapienza you can easily reach the ODEION, see map.

The FIT4RRI project would like to support early career researchers, Ph.D. candidates, Open Science and RRI trainers as well as Science Communication Writers/Journalists with 5-7 travel grants to attend our final summit. The aim of the grant programme is to reach multipliers of the overall scientific community and to maximize the outreach.

Applicants should have an idea how to communicate the theme of the summit “RRI for real: shaping the future of open Science & Society relations” into their communities. As this interactive event indicates what is needed for RRI to be real: fitting cultures and skills within organizations, institutional change between organizations and novel policies.

We will grant up to 750€ per person for travelling to and from the conference and accommodation costs during the event.

If you would like to apply for a travel grant, please submit a motivation letter of maximum 300 words by the 9 February 2020. Please state clearly how you can distribute or implement your knowledge from this conference in your institution, e.g. in your teaching. Applicants should be based in one of the EU Member states or Associated countries (for reference please consult http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en.pdf) .

We will carefully review all applications and inform the selected candidates shortly after.

Every selected person will need to make a contribution to and/or after the event, e.g.

a blog post about one part of the conference/conference day/session
tweets from the FIT4RRI account during the event
a poster presentation of RRI/Open Science activities/trainings at your institution
a presentation about the summit at your institution afterwards and a short report back to us.

In case you would like to apply, we look forward to your motivation letter until 9 February 2020 about why you would like to participate and how you will continue Open Science training at your own institution afterwards.

Please send your application to

Helene Brinken () or

Maxie Gottschling ()

We look forward to your applications!