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With this guide, we hope to have inspired you to undertake societal engagement as part of the innovation process. It is part of the EU’s mission to align innovation in business with the needs of society. Can you please help us to get more tech industry businesses on board by forwarding and sharing this guide?

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The Tech Industry’s Guide has been created as part of the EU-funded SocKETs project, which aims to align innovative technologies with citizens’ needs and values through societal engagement. This 3-year project is coordinated by the Danish Board of Technology with partners from six countries.

This guide and its contents reflect only their authors’ view. The Research Executive Agency and the European Commission are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

The SocKETs project (Societal Engagement with Key Enabling Technologies) has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement no.958277.

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Videos

DTI –Policymaker Brigitte Schytte[example chosen part 06:05-06:50 “you realise that you can come up with beautiful solutions, but in the end if you don’t manage the micro management and the individual side, and the actual patient, you need to manage that area and then suddenly you have a split where you have the global world and the individual private word and actually the private home. And for that you need to be very humble, and you need to understand how can you impact this patient’s life in their own home, in their own being, and make them understand and take ownership of their own situation about their own illness and if you can mobilise all of this, you will have a new way of doing healthcare“]

DTI -Company_ThomasPedersen Otiom

TEC -RTO -Research and technology organisation_FernandoBoto

CPN -Company_MilicaMiloševic

AIRI -Company_MarcoIuorio

AIRI -IndustrialAssociation_SaraGrassi

TEC -Company_MariaRuiz

Reflective Questions

To answer the following questions about your company’s current practice on engaging with citizens, please open the PDF Guidebook on p. 8 or use the direct link below.

To what extent are citizens already being engaged in your company’s processes?
What kind of citizens do you involve?
How are these citizens engaged?
What is the purpose of these interactions?
What are the (interpersonal/professional) skills and expertise that your company already has to facilitate societal engagement?

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