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RRI Goals and Activities implemented in TNO

The following section summarizes the agreed RRI goals and describes concrete pilot activities that emerged from them. Due to the different nature of both organizations and their distinct degrees of RRI institutionalization, the specified goals and pilot projects take different shapes. In this case the golas and activities of TNO are considered. If you what to find out more about the specific goals and pilot projects read more in:

TNO Goals and Activities for Ethics

As a result of the workshops the following goals were agreed upon:

  •  Goal 1 Improving Moral Capabilities
  •  Goal 2 Awareness of Ethics in Society in business development 18
  •  Goal 3 Enhancing the Scientific Integrity

Resulting pilot projects amounted to.

  • Improvement of ethical awareness and moral capabilities via a training/game for top management and for trainees.
  • Creation of an ‘Ethical and Societal Issues’ tool, for business development and project management.
  • Establishment an e-learning module, for (principal) scientists to improve awareness within TNO of the new, national Scientific Code.

TNO Goals and Activities for Gender

The current long-term goal for Gender Equality at TNO is to realize 30% women in the top management of TNO. This will be pursued by:

  •  Removing barriers to the recruitment, retention and career progression of female researchers;
  •  Addressing gender imbalances in decision-making processes;
  •  Strengthening the gender dimension in research programs.

To achieve such goals, concrete actions were: 

1 - Increase the visibility of female talent due to:

  • Organising 2 series of Female Leadership Trainings, consequently training 40+ women, that evaluated the usefulness of the training with a 4 (or more) on a 5-point scale
  • Using and expanding current HR/Talent databases and applying this in practice; report on use through review of database by LD-committee

2 - Create awareness on implicit bias with respect to gender due to

  • Organising a gender bias training for male TOP managers at TNO, consequently training 20+ staff, that evaluated the usefulness of the training with a 4 (or more) on a 5-point scale
  • Contributing cases to the serious game and evaluating response

TNO Goals and Activities for Open Acces

As a result of the workshops the following goals were agreed upon:

  • Establishing a permanent OA platform that is able to deal with Open Access questions and queries, and advise on policy level what is required for TNO as an organization.
  • Drawing up an annual Open Access plan for 2018

The concrete steps toward these goals are:

Setting up and installing an Open Access Platform al well as implementing a decision Tree for open Access Publishing.

TNO Goals and Activities for Science Education

As a result of the workshops the following long-term goals were agreed upon:

To increase the visibility of applied science in society in a more stratified way.

  • This is done by booting the TNO magazine TIME, a publication platform where interested readers can inform themselves about ongoing projects and actions. 

To champion the value of science by promoting specific projects to topics with a motivation to “demonstrate” and to “communicate”.

  • In concrete terms this is implemented by making a public statement on the TNO website how projects are done and share at last two sensitive dossiers per year.

To invite society and create more transparency for the working of TNO.

  • This will be achieved by organizing Open Days on location, manging an information portal for society and developing relations with crowdsourcing platforms.

TNO Goals and Activities for Societal Engagement

As a result of the workshops the following long-term goals were agreed upon:

  • Involve (‘unusual’) stakeholders in Strategy Advisory Councils (strategy level, with society)

Therefore, TNO includes two ‘unusual’ stakeholders in each (new) Strategy Advisory Council and and furthermore attempts to share Best Practices in User Involvement/Citizen Science.


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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 709747.