GRRIP Talk: Sharing experiences from the NewHoRRIzon project (Dr. Erich Griessler)

By Graham on July 5, 2022 in News Articles

Public engagement is a challenge for each researcher and research organization given professional and financial requirements and pressures.

But to add to this challenge, public engagement is also an ambiguous and multi-faceted term that can mean engagement with the public on different levels, different topics and with very different means.

In this GRRIP Project talk, delivered on Tuesday, June 21, Dr. Erich Griessler reflected on the NewHoRRIzon project, which set out to implement Responsible Research and Innovation across all research funding programmes of the European Framework Programme H2020.

In the NewHoRRIzon project, Dr. Griessler engaged, for over more than two years, in 19 social labs with more than 720 stakeholders of research and innovation and developed together with them more than 50 pilot actions, many of them on public engagement, to implement RRI in research and innovation.

Dr. Griessler explained the co-creation approach in NewHoRRIzon, which itself was based on stakeholder engagement, and presented some of the public engagement activities which were created in the Social Labs to shed some light on the many faces of public engagement.