What is NWO-MVI?
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NWO-MVI platform
Mission: NWO-MVI: Socially responsible innovation
NWO-MVI: Responsible innovation
Mission
NWO-MVI research focuses on important societal challenges and the innovations required for these. It itemises the societal aspects of these (technological) innovations at an early stage so that they can be taken into account during the design and development phase. The aim of NWO-MVI research is to realise innovations that are acceptable to society. -
Event
Addressing the challenges of ambiguity in responsible innovation
On a sunny Monday early April, some fifty early-career MVI-researchers met in ANNE Centraal in Utrecht for a one-day conference entitled ‘Responsible Innovation: The Challenge of Ambiguity’.
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NWO-MVI platform
Suggestions regarding valorisation panels
How do you convince people from public or private organisations to join the valorisation panel of your NWO-MVI project, and how do you keep them engaged?
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Funding opportunity
Call: Designing for public values in the digital world
On 7 February, NWO published the call for proposals for the programme "Responsible innovation. Designing for public values in a digital world". This programme is a collaboration between NWO, The Hague Municipal Council, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Justice and Security. The deadline for submitting concise (compulsory) pre-proposals is 19 March 2019.
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Funding opportunity
Call for submissions for blockchain innovations
The call for submissions for Fundamental knowledge for responsible blockchain innovations has been launched. Multidisciplinary consortia can request funding for coherent research into socially responsible blockchain innovations as described in the Dutch Blockchain Research Agenda.
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Funding opportunity
Heart for sustainable care: call for new medical technology
Medical technology to detect cardiovascular diseases earlier, to monitor these diseases and for improved treatment is desperately needed to safeguard access to care and sufficient bedside personnel. Researchers can submit their research proposal for new medical technology until 9 April 2019 through the open call “Heart for sustainable care”. This call has been initiated by the Dutch CardioVascular Alliance (DCVA) and the Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) and is being realised with funds from the Dutch Heart Foundation, NWO Responsible Innovation, NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) and the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw). The budget for this call is 5 million euros.
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Project update
Including ethics in economic policy decisions
How can you include citizens’ ethical considerations in real-world economic policy analysis? In the MVI-project Participatory Value Evaluation: a new assessment model for promoting social acceptance of sustainable energy policies, researchers from Delft University of Technology and VU Amsterdam further develop a new assessment tool that does exactly that. The research combines insights from Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Environment and Natural Resources.
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Funding opportunity
Funding opportunities for NWO-MVI research in 2018-2019
In the forthcoming period the possibilities for Responsible Innovation (MVI) research mainly lie within specific research programmes/initiatives within the top sectors. The underlying reasons for this are that the importance of MVI is increasingly recognised and there is a growing demand to link responsible innovation research to NWO research programmes/initiatives. MVI will be linked to these initiatives from the outset, if possible as soon as the research agenda is drawn up. In view of the interdisciplinary collaboration (between humanities, natural sciences and social sciences researchers) matchmaking events will be organised. Via the MVI newsletter and the MVI webportal more information will be released when a call is published or a relevant meeting is scheduled to take place.