The TetRRIS project, funded by the Horizon2020 Programme of the European Union, aims to explore how Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can be implemented at the regional level, with a particular focus on Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3). As part of the...
The 2021 Communication on the New European Bauhaus[1] (NEB) expresses the EU’s ambition of creating beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive places, products, and ways of living. It promotes a new lifestyle where sustainability matches style, thus accelerating the green...
RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) is a concept that the European Commission has widely promoted in its research initiatives over the past decade, and yet, it flies under the radar as another abstract EU jargony term. We get it: RRI is a fluffy acronym which...
The Karlsruhe Technology Region is proud to be a pilot region for the tetRRIS project. To improve the public engagement processes in the region and ultimately support local economic development the pilot action “Practitioner Network on Citizen and Stakeholder...
As the TetRRIS project comes to an end in a few months, the project consortium, led by EURADA, the collaborating partner in charge of the communication and dissemination of the project, has created a series of thematic and regional videos in the form of interviews....
Most companies feel the pressure. Business and society are in a massive transition, and we are constantly learning new things about the effects of climate change, nature loss, threats to biodiversity and shrinking habitats, as well as about global unrest towards...
The towns of Szeged and Timisoara have already been working together for several years. Therefore, it was a logical choice to include both towns as their surrounding regions as a „cross-border pilot area” in the TetRRIS project. From a practical perspective, this...
The TetRRIS workshop on regional foresight was organised by VTT and DARINNO together therefore it has been a cooperative action of the Tampere and Szeged-Timisoara regions. The workshop was held on the 8th December 2022 as a physical event on two locations: the first...
As far as RRI is concerned, it is a concept that has been developing for more than a decade, yet even today, it faces a considerable number of challenges. On 1 December 2022, the third Roundtable Meeting took place where experienced RRI researchers met virtually to...
In the first months of the TetRRIS project, it became clear that the pilot regions of Karlsruhe (Germany) and Tampere (Finland) are similar in many aspects. In autumn 2021, various representatives of the regions met for online exchanges to take a closer look at these...