Exploring extended outcomes of co-creation applied for Responsible Research and Innovation

Co-creation was identified as a potential approach towards the operationalization of the area of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) due to its cooperative, transparent and iterative characteristics. The EU project SISCODE (Grant agreement: 788217, funded under the Horizon2020 program, conducted a real-life experimentation with 10 pilots across Europe to explore the short- and mid-term effects of co-creation as a means to put RRI into practice. Drivers and barriers across diverse contexts are identified stating the role and dynamics of capacity building at the ground of practicing co-creation. Monitoring and assessment activities are investigated as pivotal to prove impact and represent a challenge at the same time lacking standard parameters and a framework to make assessment in the context of RRI effective and sustainable. Finally, indications are detected on how cocreation may trigger and foster organizational transformation trough the embedding of novel methods and tools and challenging existing structures.