TeRRItoria D3.2 Inventory of RRI governance innovation practices

This document represents an inventory of 43 RRI Governance Innovation Practices (RRIGIPs), detected in RRI projects conducted in Europe and beyond. This inventory has been created within the context of TeRRItoria EU project (WP3, Task 3.2) and with the aim to identify useful and innovating RRIGIPs, which can provide valuable insights for designing and implementing the five Transformative Experiments foreseen by the project. These practices have been selected within a solid thematic and theoretical framework and through a thorough methodological procedure. This procedure has been comprised of four complementary to each other steps, where from the initial 80 projects, the final 15 projects and corresponding 43 practices were placed in the inventory. These 43 practices have been critically analysed mainly through desk research, as well as through interviews with the promoters of some of these practices. The variables that contributed to their analysis were namely: general description, objective, policies/strategies, synergies and correlations, barriers (and incentives), impact (inside and outside the ecosystem). After the analysis, certain conclusions were reached in relation to tendencies and ‘trends’ identified within the aforementioned practices for the implementation (or even institutionalisation) of the RRI approach and any of each basic tenets-keys. The tendencies and accompanying conclusions do not represent a set of universal guidelines for implementing RRI, since context is a major parameter that always needs to be taken into account. Their value lies in critically elaborating on some policies that can aid institutions ameliorate even their most intimate mechanisms through an efficient RRI uptake (based on their own aims), as well as in providing a valuable input for the consequent construction of a map of approaches, policies and tools for Territorial RRI (Task 3.3) and the execution of the envisaged experiments.