CDT Training Packages now available

New Training Package for CDTs now available.

Calls now open for EPSRC CDTs and UKRI AI CDTs

ORBIT has trained over 1400 researchers, most of whom are EPSRC CDT research students.
We are delighted to announce new courses in:

We are proud to work alongside these institutions and organisations.

Environmentally Sustainable Research

Embedding Sustainable Practices for a Greener Future

Responsible Innovation Training

Do you want to incorporate Responsible Innovation training into your organisation, institution or CDT?

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Orbit Tools

Whether you are a post graduate or you work within industry, the ORBIT suite of tools will assist you in aligning your responsibility with your practises.

Environmentally Sustainable Research

Working with ORBIT we will ensure that sustainability is embedded into your research at the earliest point.

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Horizon Europe

ORBIT is able to draw on the extensive experience of members in European research projects and provide a number of possible services to proposals and projects:

Ethics By Design Training

Incorporate ethical principles into the development process by working with the ORBIT team.

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Research Integrity

Work with the ORBIT team to ensure values of honesty, rigour, transparency and open communication, as well as care and respect for those involved in research

The ORBIT Community Newsletter

A curated collection of RRI news, articles and webinars delivered to your inbox every month.

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) aims to ensure the sustainability, acceptability and desirability of research processes and outputs. ORBIT provides training, consultancy and services to both University and Industry Research and Innovation teams to help ensure that RRI principles are embedded in development.

Industry Focused Courses & Workshops

ORBIT provides a range of services including training and consultancy services designed to engage with the principles of responsible research and innovation. These services, which have been available for the academic community, have been redesigned to tailor the specific RRI-needs of industries and businesses.

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Responsible Quantum Technologies

As with all new technologies, there will be unforeseen implications of Quantum Information Technology. These will have many positive impacts as well as risks which are inevtiably going to be hard to predict. However, unless we try to anticipate the risks and benefits as the technology develops it may be too late to respond.

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Proposal Reviews

ORBIT offers a proposal review service for universities bidding for research council and EU funding. These services are aimed at ensuring RRI is applied at an appropriate level, and that they are likely to be acceptable to the funding body purely from an RRI perspective.

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Despite the many advantages of ICT, there are numerous examples of problems and downsides, from privacy issues and security concerns researchers and innovators in the area of ICT as well as other stakeholders in innovation processes have the opportunity and maybe the duty to consider their role and influence on the desired and undesired consequences of ICT.

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) aims to ensure the sustainability, acceptability and desirability of research processes and outputs. The ORBIT project is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Its purpose is to provide services to promote RRI across the UK ICT research community. It aims to move beyond ICT and the UK and will provide RRI services and knowledge to all interested parties.

ORBIT (the Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation) has been commissioned by the EPSRC to provide leadership in the promotion and application of responsible research and innovation practices to the information and communication technology (ICT) community. In order to achieve this goal, ORBIT has developed a series of Workshops and Courses for for doctoral and postgraduate students.