PROSO Project

Making people and NGo's increasingly interested, aware and participating in research and innovation is our main goal. Welcome to PROSO

Mutual learning and agreed practices in research and innovation: these are the core ideas of Responsible Research and Innovation, the European Union’s approach to good governance in research and innovation. The Horizon 2020 project PROSO aims to foster the engagement of third sector organizations (like NGOs) and citizens for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). RRI seeks to align the processes and outcomes of research and innovation with the values, needs, and expectations of European society. This requires multi-actor and public engagement initiatives in research and innovation. Societal engagement has been identified as one of five keys of RRI. Five keys of RRI:
» Engagement
» Science education
» Open access
» Ethics
» Gender

In the PROSO project we ask: What must be done to involve civil society organizations and citizens in research and innovation? To answer, the project will investigate barriers and incentives for engagement and develop policy and governance options for encouraging societal engagement for RRI in Europe. We will carry out an analysis that cuts across three domains of research and innovation:
» nanotechnology
» food and health
» bio-economy