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The advantage of online learning is that it is flexible for the participants and permanently available for use and adaptation for future learners. WP4 has worked to create a range of Open Educational Resources (OER) and make them available on various platforms. OER are available to be used and shared by everyone. These include: a 6-module MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), webinars, infographics, podcasts, and factsheets. These have been produced in collaboration with internal ORION partners and a variety of external experts from across European and international institutions and projects. These resources have and continue to be shared and hosted by platforms, e.g. the podcasts are on RRI T ools.

The aim with the ORION Open Science has been to explore ways in which research and funding organizations in life sciences and biomedicine can open up the way they fund, organize and do research. as well as to trigger evidence-based institutional, cultural and behavioural changes in Research Funding and Performing...

Long-lived institutional change has always been one of the goals of ORION. It’s relatively easy to find and convince like-minded people that responsible research and innovation (RRI) is important. However, in order to bring about real change, it’s important to engage with people all the way through an institution. Only then can true institutional change become a reality.

Genigma is a citizen science project funded by ORION and led by Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG). The goal of this 2-years project was to co-create with citizens a game for smartphones to accelerate cancer research.

The objective of this document is to use this experience to create a simple guide on how to carry out a public dialogue for a scientific research centre. The guidelines are based on the methodology and learnings from a public dialogue conducted to inform the Centre for Genomic Regulation's (CRG) strategy.

As part of the ORION project, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)conducted a public dialogue exercise to gather opinions from civil society and strategic stakeholders to explore how to take them into account for the development of the next CRG strategic plan for the period 2021-2024, so to align the plan with society’s views, values and expectations. Internally, the aim of this exercise was also to promote a cultural change in the perception of Open Science throughout the CRG community. The public dialogue took place during the months of October and November 2020 and was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This dialogue has served as an instrument to support and encourage the ORION overarching goal: to embed Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles in research funding and performing organisations (RFPOs).

The free Open Science E-learning platform developed by CEITEC at Masaryk University contains four lessons on different aspects of Open Science. After finishing the different courses you will; understand the concept and principles of Open Science, know about publishing in Open Access, be familiar with Open Science data management practices...

This booklet is a compilation of 12 inspiring stories which capture the "EUREKA moment" and highlight successes and learnings from activities conducted during the ORION Open Science project. The stories showcase a variety of different engagement and Open Science aspects: citizen science, co-creation, public dialogues, public engagement, RRI, science communication and training. Each story showcase examples on the impact, in some cases the attitude change, and the positive effect that the ORION activity had on a person, a process, an organisation and even a country.

The ORION project seeks to promote institutional change in life science research performing and research funding organisations by performing co-creation experiments in three specific areas where stakeholders do not already frequently collaborate; (i) Research strategy and funding, (ii) identifying risks and opportunities presented by disruptive technologies and (iii) citizen science...

To help open science up to a wider audience, ORION organised a number of public dialogues in the UK, Sweden, Germany and the Czech Republic during 2019-2020. One purpose of the dialogues was to explore public attitudes to genome editing technology, which has revolutionized scientific research in the past decade and has the potential for broad societal impact. The dialogues also aimed to understand how to engage the public on disruptive technologies and how public engagement strategies could vary between countries. Information about the potential use of the technology has led to a wide variety of different opinions and reactions from the public, which are not always based on scientific fact. The empirical evidence gathered during the dialogues will provide the basis of future communications strategies within the ORION institutions.