The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy

TY - JOUR

T1 - Evaluative conversations:

T2 - Translating between diverse stakeholders in regional RRI projects

AU - Holtrop, Tjitske

AU - Meijer, Ingeborg

AU - Ootero-hermida, Paula

AU - Amanatidis, Anestis

AU - Buongiovanni, Chiara

AU - Casale, Donatella

AU - Colonnello, Claudia

AU - Deserti, Alessandro

AU - Feudo, Fabio

AU - Hartman, Alan

AU - Hörlesberger, Marianne

AU - Ipolyi, Ildiko M.

AU - Nguyen, Nhien

AU - Nieminen, Mika

AU - Quinti, Gabriele

AU - Ravn, Tine

AU - Rizzo, Francesca

AU - Schmittinger, Felicitas

AU - Steinhaus, Norbert

AU - Strand, Roger

AU - Völker, Thomas

AU - Wintjes, Rene

AU - Yaghmaei, Emad

PY - 2022/4

Y1 - 2022/4

N2 - Since the summer of 2020, researchers from ten projects pertaining to the Horizon2020 Science with and for Society (SwafS) call have been meeting virtually as the SwafS14 Monitoring and Evaluation ecosystem. Topics of discussion were the trials and tribulations of their regional Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) projects as well as their strategies for monitoring and evaluation. In this paper we make a first attempt at presenting these issues as problems of translation between different kinds of stakeholders. After an exploration of the diversity of stakeholders and the process of translation in regional RRI, we suggest evaluative conversations as a way of improving regional RRI. We intend to develop this idea in the future and that these conversations will facilitate more responsible and engaged monitoring and evaluation and contribute to better R&I policies.

AB - Since the summer of 2020, researchers from ten projects pertaining to the Horizon2020 Science with and for Society (SwafS) call have been meeting virtually as the SwafS14 Monitoring and Evaluation ecosystem. Topics of discussion were the trials and tribulations of their regional Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) projects as well as their strategies for monitoring and evaluation. In this paper we make a first attempt at presenting these issues as problems of translation between different kinds of stakeholders. After an exploration of the diversity of stakeholders and the process of translation in regional RRI, we suggest evaluative conversations as a way of improving regional RRI. We intend to develop this idea in the future and that these conversations will facilitate more responsible and engaged monitoring and evaluation and contribute to better R&I policies.

U2 - 10.22163/fteval.2022.544

DO - 10.22163/fteval.2022.544

M3 - Comment/debate/letter to the editor

VL - 53

SP - 77

EP - 84

JO - fteval Journal for Science and Technology Policy Evaluation

JF - fteval Journal for Science and Technology Policy Evaluation

SN - 1726-6629

ER -