RRI in Belgium and Luxemburg

Kaat Peeters, Bénédicte Gombault & Sara HeesterbeekFriday 24th April 2015

King Baudouin FoundationAn independent, pluralistic public benefit foundation

Making a lasting contribution towards: 

- justice- democracy - respect for diversity 

Specificities of this HUB Belgium & Luxemburg

LanguageBelgium and Luxemburg both have three national languages! Opportunities for mutual learning but also barriers for practices to

diffuseScopeLuxemburg only counts 500.000 inhabitants Few and over-demanded stakeholders of RRI

Expertise in RRISome active pioneers, but generally not mainstream Need for inspiring practices and hands-on tools

Results in a nutshell RRI in Belgium

• RRI not yet well-known as concept

• Funding agencies : Focus on Open Access and Research Integrity & usergroups and support from Civil Society organizations are sometimes required

• Innovation is ‘present’ everywhere, but what is innovation?

• Participation: aims and roles are not always clearly defined

• More and more Living Labs

SOCIALE INNOVATIEFABRIEKNetwork organisation for the

promotion, coaching and support of social innovation and social

entrepreneurship.

DEFINITION

Social innovation is an innovative solution to an important societal challenge, that results in a product, service, model or method.  

Social innovation

https://vimeo.com/77689983

Societal challenges: poverty, climate 

change, loneliness, diversity, ageing,… 

EnterpriseAssociationInidividual

CONCEPT

Information session

Intake: detecting the needs & detecting the 

skills

First advice: partnerships, financing,…

Learning networkStrengthening 

sessionsAlternative currency

Ready to launch

LEARNING NETWORK

In our first year

         

EXAMPLES