Cafeneaua de Inovare (Innovation Cafe)

Innovation Café is a half day event happening twice or three times per year, aiming to facilitate and promote a collaborative framework between the actors supporting the innovation environment in Romania in discussions about innovative ideas and proposals to develop the innovation ecosystem. The initiative is an example of integrating and promoting RRI principles. The event offers a tested model for long term quadruple helix (QH) cooperation and engagement, facilitating knowledge sharing between research, business representatives, public sector and civil society, enabling them to play active roles in R&I processes, in line with public engagement and science education RRI dimensions. Also the event is attached of the idea of society-centred innovation approaching topics related to emerging societal needs and it is carefully in assuring gender balanced panels and audience. Moreover, the event represents an instrument for assisting evidence based policies and for setting the R&I idea, each event incorporating QH visions and offering opportunities to analyse how they interrelate.
Therefore, the Innovation Café is an open format event trying to involve all active players in the innovation ecosystem and an instrument supporting stakeholders to integrate and connect their own knowledge with complementary capabilities and resources of others.