TORCH D10.4 - Annual Open Forum 1 Report

Abstract

The TORCH Project enhances CHARM-EU's academic and research networks, as it builds up the R&I dimension of CHARM-EU, promoting a challenge-driven transformative agenda with a transdisciplinary and intercultural vision laying its foundation in three Cross Cutting Principles of RRI: Interdisciplinarity, Gendered Innovation, Ethics and Integrity; and four Transformational Modules: Common R&I Agenda, Cooperation with Non-Academic Actors, Open Science Practices, Citizen Science and Public Engagement.

The first TORCH Annual Forum was a dissemination activity designed to discuss progress and results of the TORCH project and beyond. It included relevant aspects such as open science, public engagement, and Cross-cutting principles to address a transformative R&I Agenda, which were shared with other European Universities. As such, all the Alliances were invited to participate, as the event was devised as the shared activity all FOREU1 Alliances included in their proposals.

The Forum was launched under the title Sustainability in a (post?) pandemic world: asking the right questions on the role of Universities in R&I today. It was held online on March 2, 2022 and virtually hosted by Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (ELTE). During the event, different relevant topics were covered.