RECREATE Final Conference

Shaping the Future of R&I in Raw Materials, Resource Efficiency and Climate Action, Brussels

  • Events 12.06.2018

RECREATE, funded by the European Commission, is a five years project with the aim of supporting the development of the European Union's new research funding programme Horizon 2020 with a focus on Climate Action, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials. Before the project will come to an end, on June 12 the "RECREATE Final Conference" will present the main project outcomes and policy recommendations. Apart from that, a central focus of the event will be on the Circular Economy and on the question of what R&I policy can do in order to bring us closer to its realisation.

The Wuppertal Institute led a work package that started with the initial claim to develop impact assessments with regards to research and innovation policy programming of Societal Challenge 5. The work package resulted in the co-design of twenty so-called evidence-based narratives at the science-policy interface. After the goal of developing EBNs has distilled from a number of events, the collective understanding and framing of what an EBN is, has changed throughout three project development phases and has been shaped by the continuous exchange with the European Commission.
This has evolved into the following current definition: Evidence-based narratives are a systematic approach following the Technological Innovation System (TIS) Analysis that helps to develop stories on emerging innovations each of which are following the same blueprint structure and proven heuristics; EBNs are underpinned by triangulated findings and data, and are as such able to serve as a communication tool for research and innovation policy makers assisting them in giving the best possible policy decisions in the context of uncertainty and limited resources.

Prof. Dr. Philipp Schepelmann (Project Co-ordinator in the Division Energy, Transport and Climate Policy, Wuppertal Institute) will present EBNs as a new tool for more vision-oriented policy-making. Susanne Fischer and project colleagues from DTU (Technical University of Denmark) and TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) will amend the methodological discussion by present findings of their own and specific EBNs. The work package on "evidence-based narratives" was coordinate by Susanne Fischer, Research Fellow in the Research Unit Circular Economy, Wuppertal Institute.

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