[ecrea] CFP: Teaching Responsible Research and Innovation at University - 1st HEIRRI Conference

**1st HEIRRI Conference - Teaching Responsible Research and Innovation
at University**

CosmoCaixa Science Museum, Barcelona, Spain - Friday 18th of March, 2016

*Context*

The Research and Innovation (R&I) system is under heavy pressure and
profound transformation. While society increasingly relies on R&I to
address the challenges of our time -such as climate change, global
health, sustainable development, scarcity of resources, or privacy and
security issues-, the R&I system itself is required to respond to social
demands on greater transparency, inclusion regarding gender and
minorities, ethics, and broader societal participation. In other words,
there is a clear call for more democratic research and innovation to
contribute to social progress and wellbeing.

Education plays a critical role in this transformation. Embedding
socioeconomic and ethical principles in science education, promoting
critical thinking, empowering citizens to make their own decisions on
science policy, and training future scientists in sharing responsibility
with all actors need to be rooted in the education system to foster and
consolidate ongoing changes.

In this scenario emerges the concept of Responsible Research and
Innovation (RRI), which tries to provide a holistic view of how the R&I
system should respond and adapt to better align its functioning and
outcomes to the needs, values, and expectations of society. HEIRRI
(Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation)
is a European project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, aimed to
integrate the concept of RRI in the science and engineering degrees.

*1st HEIRRI Conference*

The 1st HEIRRI Conference, Teaching Responsible Research and Innovation
at University, will bring together around 100 professionals from
European organisations working in Research and Innovation, including
higher education institutions, research centres, institutions of formal
and informal learning, public institutions, industry, and civil society
organisations. A combination of keynote talks, participatory working
sessions, and a poster session will allow participants to share good
practices in how higher education institutions can engage the different
actors in RRI. Networking will be prioritised to allow participants to
make connections with professionals from across Europe.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

In this 1st HEIRRI Conference we welcome contributions that present
practices and training resources on how different elements of RRI
-including research integrity, gender equality, science governance, open
access, public engagement, but also anticipation, diversity, inclusion,
reflection, responsiveness, sustainability, transparency and others- are
being integrated into higher education curricula and the learning
outcomes to which they lead. Contributions from different countries,
contexts, and disciplines -both from the humanities, and the natural and
social sciences- are highly appreciated, given the multidisciplinary
approach of RRI. Participants will also contribute with their inputs to
the initial design of the training materials that HEIRRI will be
producing in the next two years.

KEY DATES

•Opening of abstract submission: November 5th, 2015

•Deadline for abstract submission: December 15th, 2015 (23:59 European
Central Time)

•Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 20th, 2016

*Rules for submission*

1.Participants are invited to submit original scientific abstracts for
poster or oral presentation.

2.Due to time constraints, most contributions will be presented in
poster format. Based on the authors' preferences and the selection of
abstracts accepted, the Conference Committee will decide which of the
oral contributions are relocated as poster presentations.

3.Abstracts should be short (max. 2,000 characters), clear and written
in English with correct spelling and good sentence structure.

4.We recommend that abstracts are carefully compiled and thoroughly
checked, in particular the list of authors, before submission to avoid
last minute changes.

5.Abstracts need to be submitted

- to the e-mail address (heirri.conference /at/ fundaciolacaixa.org)

- with the title of the abstract as the subject of the e-mail

- in the template provided here.

6.The submission of an abstract carries with it the obligation that it
is actually presented at the conference by the author or, at least, by
one of the co-authors, provided that the abstract is finally accepted.

7.Notification of acceptance or rejection by the Conference Committee
will be mailed to the submitting author at the e-mail address supplied
by January 20th. Relocation from oral to poster format will be notified
as well.

8.Accepted abstracts will be published electronically as a single volume
at the RRI Tools website.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.rri-tools.eu/heirri-conference

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