Running and facilitating a dialogue among European science policy makers and research funding agencies on how best to harness RD4SD in the future is the core of the project. The dialogue is structured in three steps, each taken twice to allow for reflection and adaptation:
- Scoping: developing a joint understanding of the scope of the topic and the related problems.
- Envisioning: developing a joint vision as a long-term orientation.
- Pathways: exploring possible solutions, options, and science policy instruments to solve the problems and to realise the vision.
In this flexible and open forum the participants exchange experiences and develop a joint understanding of the status quo of RD4SD in Europe. They identify challenges related to this kind of research, gaps in the current practices of RD4SD and its funding systems, as well as opportunities for the way ahead.
Background studies
This is supported by background studies that provide the participants of the dialogue with compiled information about the state of the art of RD4SD.
Strategies and solutions
The dialogue results in developing strategies and solutions for the identified challenges and problems. Concrete outcomes are planned to be:
- The joint vision on how to harness RD4SD in Europe as a mid- and long-term orientation.
- Strategies and road maps for joint action as well as national initiatives on future reform processes for harnessing RD4SD in Europe.
- Recommendations for the improvement and better integration of RD4SD in the European Common Strategic Framework Programme (CSF) and for the realisation of the 2020 Vision of the European Research Area.
You are welcome to participate in this process
Talk to the responsible contact person . Join the project as an observer. Give feedback on interim results of the dialogue that will be published via this homepage.
More detailed information about the dialogue.
More detailed information about the development of strategies, roadmaps and recommendations.