WP1 aims at building capacity of Innovation Actors in a set of innovative tools to support Responsible Innovation (RI) in SMEs. Click to the box to see details...

WP2 focuses on the development of Road Maps for mainstreaming Responsible Innovation in ROSIE partner territories and in the Central Europe area. Click to the box to see details...

In WP3 ROSIE partners pilot Responsible Innovation among local SMEs, to tests the proposals included in first RI Road Maps and facilitate the adoption of RI. Click to the box to see details...

ROSIE partners’ pilot actions built SMEs’ capacity to embed Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into their business practices. The common goal for all pilots was to provide practical guidance to SMEs looking to implement an RRI path by adopting an improvement plan to define their long-term strategy towards RRI. To this end, the ROSIE RRI consultants (who received specific training in ROSIE activity A.T1.2) supported the pilot SMEs in the various phases of RRI implementation: from understanding the company’s RRI readiness to defining needs and target actors, until designing strategies to adopt RRI.

A total of 48 companies (including 39 SMEs, three large and six micro-companies) participated in the nine pilots that ran from Spring 2019 to Spring 2020. Partners selected the companies through specific calls. Benefits for companies chosen were State Aid relevant and managed accordingly. The outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic forced some partners to move the final pilot activities on-line. However, this was managed effectively, and the SMEs involved were able to complete the process.

The pilots were organised in the framework of the ROSIE Methodology for Pilot SME Capacity Building (deliverable D.T3.1.1). However, each partner had the freedom to choose the training format, tools and schedule that could best suit their SMEs. It is worth noting that partners primarily focused on the local priority sectors to engage the pilot SMEs effectively. Sectors ranged from (but were not limited to) the digital field, to constructions, food industry and tourism. This produced added-value for ROSIE, as the practical applicability of RRI to various business contexts could be piloted and the benefits, risks and difficulties tested.

Concerning the tools, while partners looked at the 3 ROSIE RRI tools (UNI/PdR, STIR and LivingLabs), various other training methodologies were also identified during the transnational exchange and applied in the pilots. Design-thinking process and the RRI Self-Check tool developed by the Horizon 2020 project COMPASS were two tools that proved particularly useful for the RRI pilot actions.
The training format varied among territories. The methodologies adopted ranged from one-to-one training delivered by RRI consultants to the staff of each SME, to design-thinking exercises involving more companies, to hackathons open to all pilot SMEs.

The Rosie project was successfully completed in June 2020. We thank all partners and stakeholders for their cooperation. We look forward to a responsible future with you.

The virtual ROSIE Final Event starts tomorrow! See the agenda.

On March 30 CCSS
did the last activity with their pilot SMEs on-line. All micro-companies involved evaluated the whole ROSIE Pilot Action as very useful for their business - especially in these days - and are even open to the next collaboration in future projects or other activities led by CCSS.

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