RRI in Greek and Cypriot contexts
Channel: RRI Tools
Date: 2015-08-13

Eugenia Kypriotis | Ellinogermaniki Agogi | Hubs Lisbon Meeting (http://www.rri-tools.cienciaviva.pt/home/)

During autumn 2014, Ellinogermaniki Agogi organized stakeholder workshops in both Cyprus and Greece. In order to get a representative sample of participants two workshops were held in north of Greece and Athens. Participants represented all stakeholder groups, and promising practices presented by all attendees. As both countries are in the middle of an economic crisis, promising practices seemed to focus on issues that would look into the innovation aspect much more than in the past, and would look at aspects not well embedded in the culture of Greek and Cypriot society such as involvement in civil society associations, small scale initiatives involving different partners, new collaborations etc. Promising practices in our context might not well represent all aspects of RRI as it is regularly done in other European countries but there is certainly a tendency to experiment with new initiatives and to connect with previously  very much disconnected stakeholders (see for example universities and their connection with industries, CSOs, policy makers etc.).

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