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At the heart of the ORION project are the open “co-creation” experiments that engage multiple stakeholders to explore different ways to make scientific research more participatory. The goal of the new participatory approach, coined as Open Science, is to align the whole research process with the values, needs and expectations of society. One specific objective of Open Science is to ensure good governance of research, referred to as Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).

For science to be truly open, responsible and responsive to societal needs, multiple stakeholders must be engaged at all points of the research lifecycle; from conception of a novel research project, through funding selection and resourcing, to dissemination of research findings and use of those findings within society, which in turn informs future funding calls.

All of ORION’s partners and several associated partners are involved in the design and implementation of the co-creation experiments, trialling new methods for embedding Open Science and RRI principles in research and funding organisations.

For more inspiration on co-creation methods please have a look at our co-creation menu. The tool was designed to provide support and ideas to ORION partners and the wider community in facilitating co-creation experiments. The menu builds upon the Action Catalogue of Engage2020, an EU project seeking to engage society in Horizon 2020. 

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What do the public think about genome editing? That’s what we hope to find out through our public dialogues on genome editing which takes place in Prague on 30 November. The aim with the public dialogue is to discuss the risks and opportunities of disruptive technologies and identify any concerns the public might have.

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What do the public think about genome editing? That’s what we hope to find out through our public dialogues on genome editing which takes place in Prague on 19 and 30 of November. The aim with the public dialogues is to discuss the risks and opportunities of disruptive technologies and identify any concerns the public might have.

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What do the public think about genome editing? That’s what we hope to find out through our public dialogues on genome editing which takes place in Berlin on16 November. The aim with the public dialogue is to discuss the risks and opportunities of disruptive technologies and identify any concerns the public might have.

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What do the public think about genome editing? That’s what we hope to find out through our public dialogues on genome editing which takes place in Berlin on 6 and 16 November. The aim with the public dialogues is to discuss the risks and opportunities of disruptive technologies and identify any concerns the public might have.

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What do the public think about genome editing? That’s what we hope to find out through our public dialogues on genome editing which takes place in Cambridge on October 24 and November 2. The aim with the public dialogues is to discuss the risks and opportunities of disruptive technologies and identify any concerns the public might have.

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The ORION project is launching a funding call for novel co-creation initiatives to open up research in life sciences and biomedicine. This call will provide funding of up to 100,000€ for a project that brings together a variety of different participants from across a range of sectors to co-create a new project or product based around life sciences research.

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Funding initiative: ORION Citizen Science Call The H2020 ORION project has opened a call for grant proposals on citizen science to support research activities in life sciences and biomedicine that enable scientists and citizens to work together with the ultimate goal to generate new scientific knowledge, using collectively their expertise,...

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Introduction "co-creation" Co-creation has been defined as “purposeful action of associating with strategic customers, partners or employees to ideate, problem solve, improve performance, or create a new product, service or business”1 . In essence, co-creation experiences are a way in which to connect multiple stakeholders, bringing them together to discover...

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