Second TRANSFORM Interim Monitoring Report
Creators: name: Völker Thomas
name: Strand Roger
name: Slaattelid Rasmus
name: Angela, Simone
name: Pellizzone Anna
name: Mazzonetto Marzia
name: Reinoso Diana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: TRANSFORM is a coordination and support action funded under the SwafS-14 call topic of Horizon 2020 to help implement the principles and practices of RRI – Responsible Research and Innovation – into institutions, policies and practices of innovation at the regional scale. To this effect, the project involves itself in processes of innovation, policymaking and practice in three European regions: Lombardy, Catalonia and the Brussels-Capital Region (BCR), our so-called “clusters”. The project initiatives include efforts to introduce RRI approaches into S3 policies in the three regions. This document – TRANSFORM deliverable 7.3 – is an interim monitoring report within WP7 Monitoring and Evaluation. It gives an overview of the activities carried out in the first reporting period of the project and is as such the second annual report from Tasks 7.3-7.4. The report lays out the monitoring approach that corresponds to the purpose to develop and carry out continuous monitoring practices in real time for “ongoing normative assessment” and learning within the project and to assess its own project activities, outputs, and outcomes, with due attention to the requirements of the Grant Agreement and the SwafS-14 call. It starts from the insight that there are multiple meanings of RRI and that instruments for monitoring and evaluation cannot be “pulled off the shelf” for TRANSFORM purposes. Thus, this monitoring report assesses the activities carried out so far in the clusters while also considering the specific situatedness of these activities within their R&amp;I ecosystems. <br> The three clusters report on a number of pilot activities: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti (FGB), the Lombardy Region Directorate General for Research, Innovation, University, Export and Internationalisation of Enterprises (“Lombardy Region”) and Finlombarda conducted a participatory process to embed RRI into the S3 plan of the Lombardy region and the development of the Strategic Three-Year Programme for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer. Science for Change (SfC), the Generalitat de Catalunya (GenCat) and the University of Barcelona (UB) have established and developed their Think Tank into a larger activity than originally foreseen and have launched citizen science pilots on waste collection systems and endometriosis. BE Participation, Innoviris, and Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) develop and integrate ways in which design thinking can contribute to embed RRI aspects into research and innovation activities funded or foreseen to be funded by Innoviris. With regard to political-institutional context, several clusters report on current and long-term collaborations with partners from regional administrations and stakeholders beyond the TRANSFORM ecosystem. These relationships and collaborations can be understood as activities in terms of the MoRRI indicator for RRI called GOV2 – RRI-related governance mechanisms within research-funding and performing organisations.