At the ICMAB we are clearly aware that any activity carried out at the ICMAB should be conducted by adhering to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles, namely:
- Governance to prevent harmful or unethical developments of our research and innovation.
- Open Access to research results and publications to boost innovation and increase the use of scientific results.
- Ethics to respect ethical standards and fundamental rights in response to societal challenges.
- Gender equality, and in a wider sense, diversity in research teams and topics.
- Public Engagement of all societal actors (researchers, industry, policy makers, civil society) for a reflective research process.
- Science Education to enhance current education processes and to better equip future researchers and society as a whole, with the necessary competences.
In summary, we envision our research activities to be performed by inclusive, diverse, and gender-balanced teams, in an open and transparent environment, anticipating and reflecting on the consequences of our choices and potential risks, being open and adaptive to changes and making our results accessible to the public encompassing the participation and feedback from the civil society, when possible.
We deem essential for our researchers to think in advance on the consequences of their research, and propose alternative solutions to the research problems they are facing. Those solutions should be evaluated taking into account moral values, and including the views of a broad range of stakeholders (scientific community, citizens, industry…).
To make all this possible, and increase the awareness of RRI principles among the ICMAB community, during 2020 we carried out the following activities:
