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  • News

    Additional topic for MVI top-up call ECCM

    Opportunities for collaboration with researchers from the social sciences and humanities.

  • News

    Invitation online meeting 'Meaningful Human Control'

    First online community meeting on Wednesday, December 16 of the research program Designing for public values in a digital society.

  • News

    Only strong together

    Assistant Professor Johanna Höffken from Eindhoven University of Technology is infectiously enthusiastic about responsible innovation.

  • News

    Logistics living lab for sustainable sharing

    The NWO Responsible Innovation approach is increasingly integrated into research programmes.

  • News

    Enriching digital technology with values

    The use of new technology has an impact on ethical and constitutional values.

  • News

    Matchmaking website MVI top-up call ECCM launched

    In the new ECCM MVI top-up call, collaboration of the (natural sciences) tenure trackers with researchers from the humanities and social sciences takes centre stage. 

  • News

    Room for creative and innovative MVI research

    Interview with Member of the programme committee Eefje Cuppen, Professor of Governance of Sustainability at Leiden University, about the design of the programme.

  • Interview

    Fascinated by MVI research

    Interview with Young MVI member and social scientist Lotte Krabbenborg

  • Newsarchive

    Call MVI top up Electrochemical Conversion and Materials (ECCM) opens shortly

    The call is expected to open before the end of July 2020.

  • Project update

    Six tenure track researchers will focus on ECCM Research

    ECCM MVI Top-Up Call matchmaking has been rescheduled

  • News

    The HTSM MVI top-up call creates the possibility to integrate research with MVI

    The HTSM MVI top-up call offers project leaders with a HTSM 2019 grant the possibility to integrate their research into High Tech Systemen & Materialen with Responsible Innovations (MVI).

  • News

    The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awards €1.5 million to socially responsible blockchain innovations

  • Newsarchive

    Do you want to provide input for new NWO policy? Sought: members this for the SSH roundtables

    The NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Domain Board wants to enter into a sustainable collaboration with the SSH research field to shape NWO policy.

  • Newsarchive

    Funding awarded in research programme 'Designing for public values in a digital world'

    The research programme “Responsible Innovation. Designing for public values in a digital world” has awarded funding to five promising research proposals for research into safeguarding public values in the design and use of new digital technology. 

  • Project update

    About the program 'Responsible Innovation. Designing for Public Values in a Digital World'

    In this digital age, it is of the utmost importance that municipalities and government ministries pay due consideration to public values in their policy.

  • Newsarchive

    New medical technological research focused on cardiovascular diseases

    This information is only available in Dutch.

  • Newsarchive

    Pre-announcement: two calls for proposals for future-proof care

    The Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) will publish two new calls for proposals in October 2019 under the theme Technology for staffable healthcare.

  • Newsarchive

    Funding opportunities for NWO-MVI research in 2018 and 2019

    In the forthcoming period the possibilities for Responsible Innovation (MVI) research mainly lie within specific research programmes/initiatives within the top sectors. 

  • Interview

    Expanding horizons

    Interview with Peter-Paul Verbeek
    In July 2019, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente and member of the program council of NWO-MVI, was appointed chair of the UNESCO committee COMEST, of which he had been a member for several years.

  • Newsarchive

    First ever professor of Ethics of Water Engineering

    ‘Take account of the differing opportunities available to citizens’. On Friday, 16 November, Prof. Neelke Doorn will give her inaugural address as professor of Ethics of Water Engineering.

  • Event

    NWO organiseert op 22 november i.s.m. TKI Dinalog een voorlichtings- en matchmakingsbijeenkomst voor de tweede fase van de call Duurzame Living Labs. De bijeenkomst is in Utrecht en start om 13.30 uur. Het doel is om geïnteresseerden in de call informatie te geven en om consortiumvorming te stimuleren.

  • 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.

  • NWO-MVI platform

    Young MVI: a fresh perspective

    To assure that younger generations of NWO-MVI researchers are actively engaged in the MVI program Young MVI was installed, a group of young researchers from ongoing or recently finished MVI projects. President Wouter Boon – assistant professor at Utrecht University – explains the why and what of Young MVI.

  • 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?

  • Event

    Kick-off Innovative Medical Devices Initiative 2.0

    Op woensdag 18 april 2018 vond de Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) 2.0 kick-off plaats in Utrecht. Tijdens deze middag presenteerde Hans Rietman, voorzitter van de stuurgroep IMDI 2.0, het vervolg van het IMDI subsidieprogramma. In de 2.0 versie van het IMDI zal de benadering van het NWO-programma Maatschappelijk verantwoord innoveren (MVI) een belangrijk onderdeel zijn.

  • Project update

    Getting a grip on gas discussions - interview with Goda Perlaviciute

    The role of gas in a sustainable energy transition is controversial. MVI researcher Goda Perlaviciute explains how she works together with private partners on controversial topics like these, and maintains an objective position as a researcher. Extraction of natural gas in the Netherlands and the earthquakes it induces in Groningen, risks and benefits of shale gas, advantages and disadvantages of biogas: gas is under constant public debate. ‘Gas is often presented as a relatively clean or green energy source, for example by the gas industry. Yet, some see this representation as misleading or even untruthful. Clearly, perceptions of gas are diverse and sometimes even conflicting’, says environmental psychologist Goda Perlaviciute from the University of Groningen.

  • NWO-MVI platform

    The value of a valorisation panel

    A researcher submitting a proposal to the MVI programme does not stand alone: he is supported by a valorisation panel, a group of people with practical experience.

  • Newsarchive

    Six new consortia funded in 2018

    In six new research projects the approach of the NWO-MVI programme is leading. The consortia of researchers and public and private partnes received funding of NWO and their partners, and will address complex challenges such as: How to optimise human-robot collaboration in logistic warehouses, which ethical, legal and societal issues play a role in new ways for cancer diagnostics and screening, and how can we develop a new assessment model for promoting social acceptance of sustainable energy policies?

  • Newsarchive

    Call for Sustainable Living Labs in Logistics

    Deadline 27 March 2018
    Responsible innovation in real-life situations

    NWO published a call for the development of consortia with which living labs in logistics can be started. The aim of this call is to stimulate the formation of viable consortia that will test and implement new solutions in a controlled real-life environment. The responsible innovation approach forms an integral part of the research into the Living Labs in this call. On the afternoon of Tuesday 6 March 2018, a matchmaking event will be held in Utrecht.

  • Project update

    Steering discussions on automated driving

    Automated driving comes with a variety of philosophical, psychological, ethical and legal issues to be solved. The NWO Responsible Innovation project Meaningful Human Control over Automated Driving Systems explores questions that arise in the context of self-driving vehicles.

  • Event

    Workshop: toolkit for MVI issues in the high tech

    Where do you start when you want to explore possible ethical and societal issues arising from your innovation? During a workshop organised by TKI HTSM and NWO-MVI on 30 November 2017, Peter-Paul Verbeek and Nico Nijenhuis presented the toolkit they developed to tackle this problem.

  • Event

    Looking back on the conference Connecting Practices 2018

    On Friday January 19th, the Muntgebouw in Utrecht was filled with the chatter of about 200 people, already active in the field of responsible innovation, or interested to join.

  • In the media

    Looking over the edge of the future with Peter-Paul Verbeek

    The philosophy of technology ... please don't be put off by the word. Professor and researcher at the University of Twente, Peter-Paul Verbeek (45), examines how technology affects our lives and how we should deal with all the new developments that define our time, such as the fist ax and the team that have done in the past.

  • Event

    Conference Connecting Practices: insights from the industry

    What is there to gain for a company by engaging in responsible innovation initiatives? During the conference Connecting Practices, representatives of industry revealed a myriad of motives.

  • Project update

    Links to miscallaneous information on and output of NWO-MVI

    List of information on and output of NWO-MVI

  • Project update

    De toekomst van drones

    Of we dat nu wenselijk vinden of niet, drones zijn er nu eenmaal. Peter-Paul Verbeek onderzoekt – in samenwerking met de bedrijven UAV international en Clear Flight Solutions - in zijn project hoe we er verantwoord mee kunnen omgaan.

  • Event

    The MVI approach: a gain for society

    ‘If we can do better by innovation tomorrow, we have an obligation to innovate today.’ That motto from the NWO-MVI movie clip shown during 'Connecting practices' is the leading principle for the MVI-approach, illustrated member of the NWO-MVI Committee and Professor at Delft University of Technology Jeroen Van den Hoven during the closing debate.

  • Event

    Connecting practices: sure, but how?

    How does a cooperation between academic researchers and public and private partners in the field of responsible innovation come about? What are the challenges, and how to overcome them? During the conference Connecting practices, ample best practices were shared, and during several workshops possible solutions and suggestions were discussed for practical problems that can arise when working on a (sensitive) societal issue.

  • Newsarchive

    MVI approach visible in NanoNextNL theme

    Responsible innovation is increasingly being integrated in new initiatives and programs. For example, the RIVM has developed the concept Safe-by-Design in the context of the NanoNextNL consortium and its Risk Analysis and Technolpogy Assessment (RATA) theme.

    Nanotechnology offers possibilities to increase the quality of life. At the same time the past has shown us that ‘unknowns’ about potential human, environmental and societal risks are raised. Attempts to address these ‘unknowns’ are generally carried out in the privacy of discussions about risks.

    However, proceeding in this way will lead to questions being raised about safety issues that come along with innovations at too late a stage of innovation, and hinder the full exploitation of potential benefits. Authorities and industry want to know which information is pivotal to assess whether a nanomaterial or nanotech application is safe.

  • Newsarchive

    Granted NWO-MVI projects 2016

    Within NWO-MVI, nine new research projects, all related to the top sectors, were honored at the beginning of 2017. These projects identify early ethical and social issues of (technological) innovations, to make sure these can be taken into account in the innovation process. This increases the level of acceptance among stakeholders.

  • Event

    Conference Connecting Practices: presentations of research projects

    During the first day of the two-day NWO-MVI conference Connecting practices, researchers met for an intimate meeting at the Muntgebouw in Utrecht.

  • Event

    Announcement: NWO-MVI conference on 19 January 2018

    At the 'NWO-MVI Connecting practices' conference, the added value of the MVI approach for practice and society is central. The connection and dialogue between science, business and society is an important approach. In the plenary programme, Jeroen van den Hoven (Delft University of Technology), Luuk Klomp (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy), Maarten-Jan Kallen (BeDataDriven) and Françoise Rost van Tonningen (Rabobank) address MVI and the digital society. There are also workshops on MVI and smart mobility, energy, and circular economy. There are also workshops on collaboration between researchers and (public and private) partners, as well as on MVI and 'Learning Communities'. During the day we work on two questions from corporates to which NWO-MVI can contribute.

  • Event

    Workshop on rice-straw burning in India

    In December 2016 MUSTS researchers organised a workshop with farmers, activists and policy makers on the issue of rice-straw burning in Punjab, India. This burning of rice straw does not only cause enormous air pollution and damage to farmers’ health, but also depletes the soil from nutrients and wastes valuable biomass.

  • Project update

    Big data based on trust

    We share a lot of personal information through digital channels, ranging from automatic bank transactions to search engines. However, the collection, storage, analysis and use of large amounts of personal data raise acute ethical and societal questions.

  • NWO-MVI platform

    Paulien Herder on the NWO-MVI Platform

    In the section 'Uitgesproken', from the NWO magazine Hypothesis, experts respond to a new development of NWO. In November 2016, Paulien Herder (Professor of Engineering Systems Design in Energy & Industry at Delft University of Technology) responded to the announcement of a new knowledge platform on socially responsible innovation (the NWO-MVI Platform) - intended for science, business and social organisations.

  • Project update

    Developing & Implementing Smart Grids in India

    Video introduction by Johanna Höffken to the Dutch Government NWO-MVI funded 'Developing & Implementing Smart Grids in India' project based at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

  • NWO-MVI platform

    Experience MVI! video on ethical decisions in the design process

    Experience MVI with this introductory animation! The animation can be viewed with VR-glasses, but also on a computer (with your mouse it's possible to adjust the viewpoint) or on your cellphone (by moving your phone, the viewpoint changes).

  • Event

    Impression Pitch & Date Event, May 2017

    A group of researchers and other professionals interested in responsible innovation (MVI) gathered in ‘de Zilveren Vosch’ in Utrecht to familiarise with the open MVI call for proposals and to get in contact with each other. Young MVI researchers Johanna Höffken (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Wouter Boon (Utrecht University) hosted the event, together with Jasper Roodenburg (NWO).

  • NWO-MVI platform

    Infographic on NWO-MVI approach

    Identifying ethical and social issues at an early stage and taking these into account in the design process will lead to responsible innovations that enjoy broad social consensus. This approach also reduces failures or costly adaptations at a later stage.

  • Event

    Van maandag 24 tot en met vrijdag 29 april nam NWO deel aan de grootste technologiebeurs ter wereld, de Hannover Messe. Het centrale thema van 2017 was Integrated Industry – Creating Value.

  • Project update

    Trust in the bio-based economy

    In this responsible innovation project, researchers identified the expected social barriers to the transition towards a bio-based economy and how these can be overcome.

  • Project update

    A role for emotions in design

    Emotions play an important role in the debate on innovations such as wind parks, robot carers and genetically-modified food. A team of MVI researchers is investigating the role of these emotions in the design of socially-responsible innovations.

  • Project update

    The MVI practice: Anticipating the future

    Responsible innovation (MVI, from the Dutch Maatschappelijk verantwoord innoveren) means taking ethical and societal aspects into account as early as the design phase of a new technology. Paulien Herder, professor at Delft University of Technology, explains what the NWO-MVI approach means in practise.

  • Project update

    The value of new energy systems

    If the transition to a sustainable energy supply is to succeed, an integrated approach that includes research into ethical and societal aspects is required. Several projects are being carried out in the NWO-MVI research programme in this field, and project leaders Rolf Künneke and Machiel Mulder tell us about their research.  

  • NWO-MVI platform

    In de rubriek Uitgesproken, van het NWO-magazine Hypothese, reageren experts op nieuw beleid van NWO. In de uitgave van november 2016 Gert-Jan Gruter (chief technology officer bij chemisch technologiebedrijf Avantium) over circulariteit.

  • In the media

    Verbeek wins World Technology Award on Ethics

    In December 2016, the prestigious World Technology Award was awarded to Peter-Paul Verbeek, professor in philosophy of technology at the University of Twente.

  • Event

    Highlights MVI-Conference 2016

    On 10 June 2016, the NWO-MVI research programme organised a special EU presidency 2016 edition of its annual conference at the Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre. The conference focused on concrete tools for applying responsible innovation and was aimed at researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and representatives from NGOs. Participants shared experiences and best practices. Researchers highlighted examples of current research projects within the NWO-MVI programme, which is aligned to all top sectors and the Dutch National Research Agenda.

  • NWO-MVI platform

    Big data: threat or public good?

    ICT is being used to facilitate urbanisation and enhance urban life. The City of Amsterdam is one of the Dutch cities experimenting with 'smart' streetlamps: these will have cameras, microphones, and sensors that can 'follow' citizens in the street and also perform a range of measurements (air quality, traffic congestion). Cities can also develop other ways to collect data from the behaviour of citizens. A city 'on remote control'?

  • Newsarchive

    Handel in hoop

    Should patients with no further treatment options be given access to unregistered drugs through a commercial company? And if so, under what conditions? Researchers in the NWO MVI Responsible Innovation programme are examining this question.

  • showcase

    ‘An idea whose time has come’

    The Responsible Innovation programme is now entering its sixth year. In January a fourth round of research projects will start. Jeroen van den Hoven, professor of ethics and technology at Delft University and chair of the programme committee, reflects on the past five years and takes a look forwards. Kees Linse, a member of the programme committee and board member of Technology Foundation STW, adds his comments. Linse speaks from the perspective of his extensive international experience in industry.

  • Event

    Symposium ‘Small labels, big challenges’

    Het projectteam van het NWO-MVI project ‘Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Innoveren in de voedingsindustrie’ organiseerde op 26 januari 2017 een multidisciplinair symposium over gezondheidskeurmerken, getiteld ‘Small labels, big challenges’. Tijdens het symposium werden de wetenschappelijke uitdagingen achter een gezondheidskeuzemerk vanuit verschillende wetenschappelijke disciplines belicht. Het doel van het symposium was om uitwisseling en samenwerking binnen de Wageningen Universiteit te stimuleren.

  • NWO-MVI platform

    David Molenaar: 'We aim to make clear, balanced choices'

    David Molenaar, country division head Wind Power at Siemens Nederland, is involved in a Responsible Innovation study on wind power. 

  • Project update

    Verantwoord bedrijfsmodel voor Afrikaanse gewassen

    How should African countries implement intellectual property rights in such a way that they encourage organisations to focus their innovative capacities on breeding local plant varieties, while at the same time protecting smallholders? Project leader Bram de Jonge is trying to find an answer.

  • NWO-MVI platform

    Why Royal HaskoningDHV joined a project on emotions

    Emotions in innovation processes. With his experiences as a project manager, Carl de Cock is very familiar with this subject. 'I have worked at Royal HaskoningDHV for nearly twenty years. Four years ago I stepped back from a management position and became a senior project manager. All of the projects I have been a part of since then have involved social impact or stakeholder management. I have repeatedly observed that dealing with emotions is a key success factor for finding support for a project and, when necessary, being able to make the right adjustments.'

  • 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’.

  • Newsarchive

    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.

  • Newsarchive

    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.

  • Event

    Information and matchmaking event Responsible Innovation

    Friday, 12 April 2019, an information and matchmaking meeting will be organised about the programme 'Responsible Innovation. Designing for public values in a digital world'.

  • Newsarchive

    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.

  • 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

    Save the date: Young-MVI conference

    Responsible Innovation: The Challenge of Ambiguity
    Monday April 8, 2019

     

  • Newsarchive

    First IMDI call about 'bemensbare zorg' now open for applications

  • NWO-MVI platform

    Responsible Innovation for the global challenges of the 21st-century

    Over the past few decades, the Netherlands has gained international recognition for its research approach for responsible innovation and new technology: MVI. 

  • Newsarchive

    Green light for research into responsible marine biofuels

    NWO has approved a project within the Value from Biomass programme. This project focuses on research into the use of biomass to produce maritime biofuels. The multidisciplinary research is led by Dr. Lotte Asveld of Delft University of Technology and will start in 2020.

  • Newsarchive

    Twitter account @NWO_MVI integrated with Twitter account @NWO_SSH

    The Twitter account of MVI (@NWO_MVI) will be integrated with the Twitter account of the NWO domain Social Sciences and Humanities on 15 March 2020: @NWO_SSH.

  • Newsarchive

    Opportunities for Responsible Innovation research in the new KIC

    The Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC) of the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) will be the large NWO instruments for the coming years

  • Newsarchive

    Call MVI top-up for High Tech Systems & Materials research reopened

    In 2019, 22 projects were awarded funding in the annual call of High Tech Systems & Materials (HTSM).

  • Project update

    Valorisation panel accelerates research into potato innovation

    How does a new approach to potato breeding contribute to world food security, sustainable ambitions, and the economic viability of the potato sector?

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    About the program 'Responsible Innovation. Designing for Public Values in a Digital World'

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