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Dear all, as many of you know, there is an ongoing debate concerning the future of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) - and more in general a participatory and democratic approach to research and innovation - in the upcoming European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, called Horizon Europe, which will run form 2021 to 2017. If you would like to know more about the current debate, JCOM (Journal of Science Communication) has recently published a collection of commentaries focusing on the topic. Contributions include: - "Steering research and innovation through RRI. What horizon for Europe?", by Angela Simone, Project Manager at Fondazione Giannino Bassetti and Deputy Coordinator of the EU Horizon2020 project SMART-map - "Towards an inclusive European innovation policy", by Bjørn Bedsted, Lise Bitsch, Lars Klüver, Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, Marie Louise and Margrethe Jørgensen, from the Danish Board of Technology Foundation - "More democratic research and innovation", by Robert Braun and Erich Griessler, Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna - "A key moment for European science policy", by Niels Mejlgaard, Richard Woolley, Carter Bloch, Susanne Buehrer, Erich Griessler, Angela Jaeger, Ralf Lindner, Emil Bargmann Madsen, Frédéric Maier, Ingeborg Meijer, Viola Peter, Jack Stilgoe, Milena Wuketich (members of the MoRRI experts group) - "RRI: How to ‘mainstream’ the ‘upstream’ engagement", Alexander Gerber, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences The collection of commentaries has been curated by myself and Angela Simone. We provide a general introduction to it at the following link: https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/17/03/JCOM_1703_2018_C01, where you can also find links to all the above-mentioned contributions. If you would like to read the original text of the Commission Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing Horizon Europe (the official text), it is available on the Commission website: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/budget-may2018-horizon-europe-regulation_en.pdf Another important official document is the Commission Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the specific programme implementing Horizon Europe, which goes more into details on how what expressed in the Regulation will be implemented (also in this case, the official text is available on the Commission website at https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/budget-may2018-horizon-europe-decision_en.pdf ), Both texts are currently under negotiation at the European Parliament. MEPs are expected to send (to the selected rapporteurs) proposals for concrete amendments of the Commission text by September 6th. Following this, there will be several meetings at the European Parliament, where amendments will be discussed. In a few months from now, once negotiations are over, the final text (accepted by both the Parliament and the Commission) of Horizon Europe will be published. If you would like to know more please don't hesitate to contact us. Kind regards, Marzia Mazzonetto ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send requests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print Contact Jisc Helpline: Email: [log in to unmask], Telephone: 0300 300 2212 **********************************************************************