Projects should consist of several activities, examples of what those specific activities in potential projects could be are listed below:

Potential activities:

• Designing and/or implementing co-creation processes with citizens at large (or specific categories of citizens, e.g., patients) to develop innovative products, processes, and services for grand societal challenges and missions or in co-valorisation processes
• Designing and/or implementing ORRI journeys (e.g., training and dialogue workshops) for innovators developing cutting-edge technological products and services
• Implementing citizen engagement models (such as citizen juries or scenario workshops) to co-design strategic innovation plans and key innovation policies in collaboration with societal actors and citizens, at local, regional, or national level.
• Designing and implementing responsible processes to manage innovations in research centers and universities (e.g., introducing and adopting Socially Responsible Licensing mechanisms and instruments)
• Implementing the Societal Readiness approach to better align innovation trajectories with societally desired and needed goals and adapt to overcome undesired aspects of the proposed innovation

Furthermore, through the proposed actions, applicants must demonstrate how they intend to embed and institutionalize ORRI within their organisation or territory, in order to ensure long-term commitment to Responsible Innovation. 

Please note that REINFORCING does not fund:

• Training or consulting activities for institutions, organizations, and territories that are not part of the consortium, since institutional changes are requested to be visible and measurable in the funded entities (grantees), at least in the Coordinator (main beneficiary) of the project.
• Activities related to technological developments and/or proof of concepts, while REINFORCING could support co-creation and/or visioning workshops linked to those activities – if coherent with the scope and the requirements of the Call.
• Marketing and consumer studies that do not foresee a meaningful engagement of citizens or other societal actors that goes beyond providing feedback on already existing innovations.
• Activities of any kind in which artificial intelligence-based systems or techniques are used or developed. Reflection on AI ethics and responsibility can instead be part of the funded actions – if coherent with the scope and the requirements of the Call.
• Projects mainly revolving around the design of a new Code of Practices on Citizen Engagement for Knowledge Valorisation in a specific innovation field.
• Projects just exploring Responsible Innovation, RRI, or ORRI theory.