Imagine you run a research department and someone asks: "Are you doing innovation responsibly?" Right now, there's no good way to answer that. This project built a scoring system — like a fitness tracker but for responsible research practices — that lets organizations across 28 EU countries see how they compare. They created an online dashboard and a self-assessment tool so any organization can check its own "responsibility readiness level" and benchmark against others.
Organizations running R&D programs face growing pressure to prove their innovation practices are responsible, inclusive, and aligned with societal needs — but there is no standard way to measure this. Without benchmarks or self-assessment tools, demonstrating responsible innovation to funders, regulators, and the public remains guesswork.
An online platform with an interactive dashboard for monitoring responsible research and innovation across EU-28 countries, plus a self-assessment tool that lets organizations evaluate their own RRI readiness level. Both were tested and validated with real users over a 5-year project period.
If you are a university or research institute struggling to demonstrate responsible research practices to funders and regulators — this project developed a self-assessment tool that identifies your RRI readiness level and benchmarks you against EU-28 peers. The online dashboard lets you track progress with validated indicators developed over two consecutive EU projects since 2014.
If you are a company with an R&D division and need to report on responsible innovation as part of ESG obligations — this project created a monitoring system with robust indicators covering 28 EU countries. The self-assessment tool was tested with real organizations and can be customized to your context via an online dashboard.
If you are a policy consultancy or national innovation agency advising governments on R&D governance — this project provides a mature monitoring system with international benchmarking data from 7 countries and indicators refined over 5 years of continuous data collection. The platform includes an easy-to-customize dashboard system for policy analysis.
The project data does not specify licensing fees or pricing. The online platform and dashboard were developed with EUR 2,998,820 in EU funding across 11 partners. Based on available project data, the self-assessment tool was tested with external organizations, suggesting it may be available for broader use — contact the coordinator for access terms.
The system was designed to monitor RRI across all EU-28 member states and selected non-EU countries. The dashboard is described as 'easy-to-customize,' and the self-assessment tool was tested and trained with real users. This suggests it can be adapted to organizational or national contexts.
The project was coordinated by Fraunhofer (Germany), a major applied research organization, with 11 partners across 7 countries. IP arrangements are not detailed in available project data. Fraunhofer typically has established licensing processes for tools developed in EU-funded projects.
Yes. Deliverable D6.4 specifically covers testing, implementation, and training of the self-assessment tool with external users. The monitoring system builds on the earlier MoRRI project (2014-2018), meaning the indicators have been refined over nearly a decade of development.
The platform and dashboard (Deliverable D3.3) provides online access to RRI indicators across EU countries. It includes international benchmarking data and tracks metrics related to responsible research and innovation practices, with data collected continuously since the predecessor MoRRI project.
The project responds to increasing EU policy emphasis on responsible research governance and societal integration of innovation. While not tied to a specific regulation, EU funding programs increasingly require demonstration of responsible practices, making such monitoring tools valuable for compliance and reporting.
The consortium of 11 partners across 7 countries (AT, DE, DK, ES, NL, NO, RO) is heavily academic — 7 universities and 2 research organizations make up 82% of the partnership. Only 2 industry partners (18%) and just 1 SME participated. The project is coordinated by Fraunhofer, Germany's largest applied research organization, which adds credibility for technology transfer. However, the low industry ratio signals this is primarily a research and policy tool, not a commercial product. A business buyer should expect a tool built by researchers for the research community, not a polished commercial SaaS offering.
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (DE) — contact via their technology transfer office or the project website
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