Between February and May (2025) the Bassetti Foundation collaborated with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation to bring discussion about responsibility in innovation to secondary schools within the region of Lombardy. I partnered Forum member and long-time Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni on a tour of five schools, while Foundation staff member Tommaso Correale Santacroce joined ... Collaboration with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

One of the central aims of responsible innovation is to promote reflexivity, and in this post I would like to shine some light on recent Journal of Responsible Innovation articles that dive a little deeper into this ‘pillar’ of RI practices. In the recently published (2025) The roles of responsible innovation researchers in research projects, ... Focus on Reflexivity in the Journal of Responsible Innovation

Jonathan Hankins

On 27 March 2025, I and Mirjam Scholtens (Municipality of Utrecht) took a group of researchers from Lund University for a guided tour of the Utrecht city garden Food For Good and its neighbouring Eilandsteede city farm. As readers might know, Food For Good is a regular port of call for university groups from across ... Lund University Research on Food Sharing

Jonathan Hankins

March of 2025 saw the release of Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges, authored by Andrea Lavazza, Michela Balconi, Marcello Ienca, Francesca Minerva, Federico Gustavo Pizzetti, Massimo Reichlin, Francesco Samorè, Vittorio A. Sironi, Marta Sosa Navarro and Sarah Songhorian. The article appears in the open access publication Frontiers in Human Dynamics, and is part of a series of 10 articles that appear in a collection ... Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges

Redazione FGB

In October of 2024, I was invited to join the Advisory Board and attend the  launch of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project Place-based circular society innovations (CSI) in Manchester, UK. I was excited to join, not only because long term friend of the Bassetti Foundation Sally Randles is part of ... Place Based Circular Society Innovations

Jonathan Hankins

Follow the Food’s fourth and final seminar took place on January 22nd bringing us full circle and back to cheese, as Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) presented the case of Gouda to an audience from a diverse array of fields, including social impact, political ecology, geography, and responsible innovation. Huysmans began by highlighting the ... Follow the Food: Gouda Cheese

Nina Litsios

Follow the Food Seminar 3. Geographical Indications and Coffee in Indonesia: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh The third Follow the Food seminar was held on 11 December at the Utrecht University Future Food Conference. This year’s conference theme was food democracy, and raised several questions that are closely tied to ... Follow the Food: Social and Ecological Implications of Premium Coffee Production in Aceh

Nina Litsios

IN MEMORY OF ANDREINA BASSETTI Through her profound civic spirit, Andreina Rocca Bassetti gained esteem and affection from all of those who had the pleasure to meet her. The work of the Bassetti Foundation (which she co-founded with her brother Piero Bassetti) is both a reflection and result of her dedication, and we endeavor to ... Looking Back on 2024

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On 28 November I attended the Utrecht University Pathways to Sustainability Conference 2024 in the beautiful surroundings of the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht. The title of the conference was At Home?, and the conference focused upon a premise: A just and sustainable future can only be reached with a feeling of HOME for all. All ... Pathways to Sustainability

Jonathan Hankins

On Thursday 5th and Monday 9th of December (2024), Bassetti Foundation correspondent Jonathan Hankins brought discussion about responsible innovation and sociotechnical imaginaries to Leiden University Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, as part of its Social Theories undergraduate course. Here his report: In December of 2024 I was given the opportunity to discuss responsible ... Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University

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Future Food presents: Follow the Food 2nd Seminar: The Power of Place – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia On Monday, November 18th, environmental historian Flora Roberts and rural sociologist Irna Hofman explored the topic of apricots in Tajikistan during the second Follow the Food seminar. The seminar, hosted by Future Food ... Follow the Food: The Power of Place – Apricots between Heritage and the Market in Central Asia

Nina Litsios

The e-book Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity is one of the outcomes of A Just Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE). This European Union Horizon 2020 funded project concluded this summer (2024), its aim being to understand the implications of the transition to a circular economy on the environment, economy ... Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review

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