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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.

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Enriching digital technology with values

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

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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. 

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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