Inclusive responsible research

ERASMUS+ KA2 2020: IRR: Inclusive responsible research

Trajanje projekta: 1.9.2020 - 31.8.2022

Opis:

Odgovorno raziskovanje in inovacije opozarja na zavezanost univerz pri vseh njihovih dejavnostih v zvezi s svojimi skupnostmi in okolju, v katerem so integrirane. USR (university social responsibility) pomeni, da so univerze odzivne na potrebe družbe in reševanje njenih problemov, prispevanje k skupnemu dobremu, družbeni konstrukciji in oblikovanju kritičnega državljanstva.

IRR poskuša olajšati prehod na bolj vključujoče odgovorno raziskovanje ter tako tudi bolj odziven visokošolski sistem, ki spodbuja državljansko in družbeno odgovornost tako študentov, raziskovalcev kot tudi univerz.

Partnerji bomo v okviru projekta zagotovili primere dobrih praks, nakazali potrebe po spremembi in ponudili tudi orodja za preobrat.

V ta namen smo oblikovali tudi posebne cilje:

• Spodbujanje vključevanja kot osnova za družbeno in socialno odgovornost univerz

• Primeri profilov "Vključujočih odgovornih raziskav" na mednarodni ravni

• Vzpostavitev smernic za USR za sodelujoče (in druge zainteresirane) univerze

Projektni partnerji:

 Universitat Jaume i de Castellon, Španija (vodilni partner)

 3S research laboratory, Avstrija

 Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, Romunija

 Univerzitet u Kragujevcu, Srbija

 Ljudska univerza Ptuj, Slovenija

 Spletna stran

The project IRR: Inclusive Responsible Research. Knowledge Mobilisation and University Social Responsibility is funded by the European Commission (2020-1-ES01-KA203-081978) and aims to facilitate the change toward more inclusive responsible research through Knowledge Mobilisation (KM).

The specific objectives of IRR are:

a. To make visible the need for, and promote, inclusion through KM strategies in university research.

b. To find profiles of "Inclusive Responsible Research" at the international level.

c. Establish guidelines for more Inclusive Responsible Research.

The study involves 5 higher education institutions in Austria, Slovenia, Spain, the Republic of Serbia, and Romania.

News:

Inclusive research opens up a new window to the democratisation of knowledge and its shared construction, offering stakeholders real participation in the co-creation of knowledge that goes beyond academic language and enriches, contextualises and mobilises them, while bringing back the meaning of responsible research to universities.

Context

A global overview shows us that the research is monitored at both the national and institutional level in the five contexts by quantitative criteria based on published papers and results of scientific-research work. Different career paths for academic staff are recognised in each country, although they share some criteria to monitor their research activities as mentioned above (impact journals, etc.)

Methodology

The methodology essentially consisted of semi-structured interviews with various university research groups, complemented (Bericat, 1998) by a quantitative approach in which the responses from the interviews are classified in a series of ordinal level indicators. Both, interview and the indicators were validated theoretically and empirically at a national and international level. An expert panel of six national and eight international judges provided the theoretical validation and the empirical study was validated through a pilot test with 17 research groups (Ferrández-Berrueco et al. 2021).

If you would like to know more about the IRR project and results, we've prepared a comprehensive Knowledge Mobilisation Report