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

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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New medical technological research focused on cardiovascular diseases

This information is only available in Dutch.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.