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{{Project                                           
{{Project                                           
       |acronym= R&I PEERS
       |acronym= MARINA
       |logo=R-I Peers logo.jpg
       |logo=Marina_logo.jpg
       |project_title=[[Pilot experiences for improving gender equality in research organisations]]   
       |project_title=[[Marine Knowledge Sharing Platform for Federating Responsible Research and Innovation Communities]]   
       |contract_number=788171
       |contract_number=710566
       |funding_period= 01/05/2018 - 30/04/2022
       |funding_period= 01/05/2016 - 30/04/2019
       |funding_agency=European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
       |funding_agency=European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
       |total_cost=€2,029,351.25
       |total_cost=€2,999,943.75
       |lead_partner=[[UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO]] (UNISA)
       |lead_partner=[[CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR)]]
       |partners=[[CYPRUS NEUROSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE]] (CNTI), <br> [[CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE]] (CNR), <br> [[ASSOCIAZIONE INDUSTRIALI DELLA PROVINCIA DI SALERNO]] (AISAI), <br> [[Asociacion - Centro de Investigacion Cooperativa en Nanociencias - CIC NANOGUNE]] (CIC nanoGUNE), [[MIGAL GALILEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD]] (MIGAL), <br> [[DIGITAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE]] (DLI), <br> [[ZNANSTVENORAZISKOVALNI CENTER SLOVENSKE AKADEMIJE ZNANOSTI IN UMETNOSTI]] (ZRC SAZU), <br> [[AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA PROMOTION DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE]] (ANPR), <br> [[HELLENIC REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF INTERIOR]] (GSGE)
       |partners=[[XPRO CONSULTING LIMITED (XPRO)]], <br> [[FUNDACAO EUROCEAN (EUROCEAN)]], <br> [[ORGANIZATIA ECOLOGISTA NEGUVERNAMENTALA MARE NOSTRUM (MARE NOSTRUM)]], <br> [[SIHTASUTUS TEADUSKESKUS AHHAA (AHHAA)]], <br> [[SMARTBAY IRELAND LIMITED (SMARTBAY)]], <br> [[CYPRUS NEUROSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE]], <br> [[AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA (APRE)]], <br> [[SOCIETE D'EXPLOITATION DU CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA MER (NAUSICAA)]], <br> [[RESEAU OCEAN MONDIAL AISBL (ROM WON)]], <br> [[Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA)]], <br> [[Asociacion - Centro de Investigacion Cooperativa en Nanociencias - CIC NANOGUNE (CIC nanoGUNE)]], <br> [[AALBORG UNIVERSITET (AAU)]], <br> [[ISTANBUL UNIVERSITESI (IU)]]
       |fwc_coordinator=[[Elena Aristodemou]]<br>[[Andreas P. Andreou]]
       |fwc_coordinator=[[Elena Aristodemou]]<br>[[Andreas P. Andreou]]
       |website=tba
       |website=http://www.marinaproject.eu
}}
}}


R&I Peers is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The project is coordinated by the [[UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO]] (UNISA) with the participation of nine additional partners from Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Israel, Belgium, Slovenia, Tunisia and Greece.
The Marina proposal overall aim is to create an all-inclusive Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) catalysing and organising the convergence of already existing networks, communities, on-line platforms and services providing an online socio-technical environment that facilitates and stimulates the direct engagement of researchers, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), citizens, industry stakeholders, policy and decision makers, research funders and communicators for improving Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).




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==Background and Overview==
==Background and Overview==
Federating RRI Communities and stakeholders is a complex task mainly due to the interactions of controversial nature, the implications and consequences of the current and future research and innovation activities. This complexity ought to be modelled, clustered and approached by a systematic set of actions. This is the starting point of the MARINA philosophy.
The R&I Peers project will be based on the concept of gender equality, that can be expressed as “women and men enjoy the same status and have equal opportunity to realize their full human rights and potential to contribute to national, political, economic, social and cultural development, and to benefit from the results”.  


There is still significant work to be done on better aligning EU research and innovation with societal needs, and harmonization in EU innovation policy. MARINA will make a major step forward in addressing this requirement across a range of vital societal issues through its focus on marine related challenges. Although focusing on the marine thematic area, and drawing from all (not only marine) RRI communities, projects, actors, etc. and from existing good practices and findings, the project will develop RRI-methods and policy support tools for marine
Nonetheless, gender biasing currently permeates all life-domains, and claims for urgent need of interventions addressing strategic gender interests focus on fundamental issues related to women’s (or, less often, men’s) subordination and gender inequities. Strategic gender interests are long-term, usually not material, and are often related to structural changes in society regarding women’s status and equity. This is also the case of the Research Sector, in which women still systematically disappear from higher levels of academic hierarchy.
related policies. However as these clearly address a range of key societal challenges the KSP developed will be highly relevant to other initiatives with a focus on other policy areas.  


To this purpose a range of specific, broad scale, key strategic issues which require the full development of an RRI approach and involvement of citizens organisations and RRI actors will be taken into account as direct working examples to consolidate the RRI federation and provide relevant output to the policy makers marine issues such as but not limited to: 1) Marine Biotech, 2) Sea Transportation 3) Deep Sea Mining including bio prospecting, 4) Marine Change caused by Climate, 5) Renewable Energy (wave, wind, tidal) 6) Tourism and Coastal Cities, 7) Fishing and Aquaculture, 8) Pollution caused by human land and sea pressures.
Despite existing signs of progress towards gender equality amongst top-level graduates in the EU, overall, positive changes since 2004 were not sufficient to produce gender balance across different fields by 2012 <ref>''SHE Figures 2015</ref>. The partners are aware that the obstacles experienced by individuals and groups striving for self-development are often indirect and difficult to discern. They are caused by structural phenomena, social representations and personal and professional cultures that are often difficult to grasp and are particularly resistant to change.


The problems faced by research institutions can be summarised as <ref> ''Structural change in research institutions: Enhancing excellence, gender equality and efficiency in research and innovation (European Commission, EUR 24905, 2012)</ref>:
* Opaqueness in decision-making processes;
* Institutional practices inhibiting career opportunities:
* Unconscious bias in assessing excellence
* Wasted opportunities and cognitive errors in knowledge, technology and innovation;
* Employment policies and practices.


These problems are magnified in the Mediterranean Countries because of the cultural and welfare model, mainly based on the differentiation between the role of women (pivotal role as responsible of family caring) and men (“the breadwinner”). The SHE Figures 2015 <ref> ''ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/pdf/pub_gender_equality/she_figures_2015-final.pdf</ref> statistics highlight the gap among the Mediterranean area and the other European areas.


==Objectives==
These are systemic difficulties and the R&I Project partners had chosen an approach that considers that '''gender-neutral policy should go hand in hand with gender-sensitive measures''', thus ensuring effective equality of opportunities between men and women in science and technology and, therefore, complying with the “equality between men and women”, one of the European Union’ founding principles. This perspective is aligned with the Rome declaration <ref> ''https://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/pdf/rome_declaration_RRI_final_21_November.pdf</ref> (produced during the RRI-SSH conference held in Rome on November 2014, and organised by partner CNR), which calls on all stakeholders to further promote the whole RRI pillars in an integrated way.
The MARINA project has identified the following six objectives:  


<br> 1. Engage citizens and stakeholders in a highly participatory debate/consultation/process for federating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) communities and initiatives, by supporting the Science with and for Society Community by facilitating new and lasting partnerships, cultivating joint visions and scenarios that connect societal needs with future expected advances in Science related to marine issues and their impact on the Societal Challenges.
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<br> 2. Create and validate a comprehensive networking and knowledge sharing platform (KSP) for relevant projects, service contracts, marine actors, educational institutions and citizens, to support and enable discussion, Mobilization and Mutual Learning, knowledge exchange and co-production of different communities related with the MARINA key strategic issues (environmental issues, sustainable development, policies and educational challenges) in the perspectives of the societal challenges and the RRI topics.
<br> 3. Federate RRI communities including citizens in the KSP also by using an online platform for experimentation, training and knowledge and expectation capturing for facilitating the dialogue and shared understanding among scientists, policymakers, citizens and other stakeholders.
<br> 4. Deliver guidelines and good practices for RRI assessment and promote them to CSOs, industry stakeholders, policy and decision makers, research funders, educational institutions to foster their adoption as a potential benchmark in setting-up RRI processes.
<br> 5. Provide recommendations and policy options for RRI relating to marine issues at EU, national and subnational
levels.
<br> 6. Communicate and Disseminate broadly in Europe early in the project for enabling the MARINA activitiesand creating RRI and Marine issues awareness; and outside Europe through the partners and associated partners’ wide professional and social networks to promote the European leadership in RRI governance.
 
 
==SDDs==
Structured Democratic Dialogues related to the Marina Project:
* [[Nicosia Local Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Venice International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Boulogne sur Mer International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Copenhagen International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Galway International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Nicosia 2nd Local Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Larnaca International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Lisbon International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Tallinn International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
* [[Brussels International Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
 
==Reports related to the MARINA project==
*[[Media:CYMML_REPORT_EN.pdf|Nicosia Local Mobilisation and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop]]
 
 
 
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