RRI in Belgium and Luxembourg
Transcript of RRI in Belgium and Luxembourg
RRI in Belgium and Luxemburg
Kaat Peeters, Bénédicte Gombault & Sara HeesterbeekFriday 24th April 2015
King Baudouin FoundationAn independent, pluralistic public benefit foundation
Making a lasting contribution towards:
- justice- democracy - respect for diversity
Specificities of this HUB Belgium & Luxemburg
LanguageBelgium and Luxemburg both have three national languages! Opportunities for mutual learning but also barriers for practices to
diffuseScopeLuxemburg only counts 500.000 inhabitants Few and over-demanded stakeholders of RRI
Expertise in RRISome active pioneers, but generally not mainstream Need for inspiring practices and hands-on tools
Results in a nutshell RRI in Belgium
• RRI not yet well-known as concept
• Funding agencies : Focus on Open Access and Research Integrity & usergroups and support from Civil Society organizations are sometimes required
• Innovation is ‘present’ everywhere, but what is innovation?
• Participation: aims and roles are not always clearly defined
• More and more Living Labs
SOCIALE INNOVATIEFABRIEKNetwork organisation for the
promotion, coaching and support of social innovation and social
entrepreneurship.
DEFINITION
Social innovation is an innovative solution to an important societal challenge, that results in a product, service, model or method.
Social innovation
https://vimeo.com/77689983
Societal challenges: poverty, climate
change, loneliness, diversity, ageing,…
EnterpriseAssociationInidividual
CONCEPT
Information session
Intake: detecting the needs & detecting the
skills
First advice: partnerships, financing,…
Learning networkStrengthening
sessionsAlternative currency
Ready to launch
LEARNING NETWORK
In our first year
EXAMPLES