challenge-driven sustainability education / cloud academia for sustainable development

This project would be in accordance with the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) strategy, which has been attracting universities for several years. The concept of RRI is rooted in the following five core well-established scientific operations: assessment of technology (examination of commercialization potential of a technology), engineering ethics (ethics of new technology), community engagement in research, foresight initiatives and socio-economic implications of new technologies (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Technologies/ELSEA, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/ELSI, and others) [Forsberg E., Quaglio G., O'Kane H., Karapiperis T., van Woensel L., Arnaldi S., 2015, Assessment of science and technologies: Advising for and with responsibility. Technology in Society, 42, pp. 21-27.]. The key reasons for the emergence of RRI was the weak participation of scientific institutions in economic development, addressing the major issues of the contemporary world, finding solutions to eliminate economic and technological limitations constraining the contemporary economy, and the improving the standard of living. The examples of effective engagement of the scientific community in solving the above-mentioned problems show that there are untapped opportunities in this area (i.e. model of demo and research platform designed to test and present new solutions in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, developed by German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, or a model factory established by the Aachen University, working on the design and construction of electric cars and implementation of related services, and an environment for individual manufacturing/FabLab, equipped with 3D printers and other devices and software necessary in a micro-factory developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).