Territorial Responsible
Research and Innovation and
Smart Specialisation
TetRRIS takes 4 regions/territories, their policymakers and stakeholders, on a journey through pilot experiments in Responsible Research and Innovation and Smart Specialisation. For tetRRIS, four pilot regions Tampere (FI); Karlsruhe (DE), Cantabria (ES), Szeged-Timisoara (RO/HU) have been selected and are central to the scientific research and associated policy recommendations seeking to address societal challenges at the local level.
In a nutshell, as theoretically the pilot regions are the space where R&I activities produce actual innovation, the project will support its pilot regions to make RRI integration possible within R&I territorial governance (Smart Specialisation). Overall, this approach aiming to ready regions for RRI integration in their TRISs, will be replicable and replicated to actors wider than the project regions through awareness raising and policy recommendations.”

Our partners

VTT (Finland)
Pirkanmaan Liitto (Finland)
Yaghma (Netherlands)
Fraunhofer ISI (Germany)
Technology Region Karlsruhe (Germany)
TECNALIA (Spain)
SODERCAN (Spain)
EURADA (Belgium)
DARINNO (Hungary)
News & Events

Regional Exchange between Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Technology Region), Germany and Tampere (Pirkanmaa), Finland
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...

Applying the Materiality Matrix for Responsible Regional Innovation
In November, Konstantina Varlami and Emad Yaghmaei, from our partner YAGHMA, participated in the ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management conference in Athens, Greece. The conference topic focused on 'The Role of Innovation: Past, Present,...

TetRRIS 2nd Policy Lab: How does RRI contribute to the reorientation of Smart Specialisation Strategies towards sustainability?
Don't miss our imminent event, the TetRRIS Second Policy Lab that will take place on the 9th and 10th of February at the Magdalena Palace, in Santander! The main objective of this event is to address how RRI contributes to the reorientation of Smart Specialisation...