Deliverable 5.6. FEDORA Guidelines for RPOs, RFOs, HEIs and high schools on "Promoting futurized science education as key dimension of RRI"

The deliverable outlines the guidelines for RPOs, RFOs, HEIs and high schools on “Promoting futurized science education as key dimension of RRI”. It builds on the recommendations produced by WP1-5, interviews and discussions with RRI experts. The guidelines connect the AIRR principles of RRI, reflect on the MoRRI indicator SLSE1 and SDG4 targets 4.7, 4.3 and 4.4. The guidelines suggest that promoting science education as the key pillar of RRI, some changes have to be initiated by RFOs as institutional changes usually follow funding decisions. Therefore, based on research evidence from the FEDORA outputs in WP1-5, RFOs are expected to promote interdisciplinarity by revising HEIs/RPOs funding principles, engage in stakeholder dialogue to increase relevance of funded research to real life problems and promote futures studies in some national contexts. Consequently, RPOs could  develop human resource management practices which favour interdisciplinary research and create “third spaces” which enable sense making and strange making practices.  Finally, HEIs as science education providers should integrate futures thinking as a 21st century skill into curricula, balance creative thinking and system, critical thinking skills as learning outcomes, and rely on class activities and methods which speak the language of contemporary youth.