Protocols

Testing RESC through Situated Experience

RESC is an emerging and open sociological framework. Its development requires engagement with real experiences, different cultural contexts and concrete processes of individual, collective and institutional change.

The framework will therefore be progressively tested through research, educational, organisational and participatory experiences. Each application will provide an opportunity to examine its relevance, question its assumptions and refine the relationships between its four interconnected dimensions: Meaning, Recognition, Education and Transformation.

Contexts of Application

European Projects
European cooperation projects will provide transnational and interdisciplinary environments in which to examine how responsibility is interpreted, negotiated and practised across different organisations, professional sectors and cultural contexts.
Case Studies
Selected case studies will explore how responsibility emerges within specific organisations, communities, educational settings and decision-making processes.
Research Studies
Qualitative and comparative research will investigate how individuals and groups understand responsibility and how culture, language, education, relationships, institutions, collective histories and lived experience influence its recognition.
Educational and Participatory Experiences
Training activities, workshops, reflective exercises and facilitated discussions will be used to explore whether questioning responsibility can increase awareness and create conditions for individual or collective transformation.
Organisational and Institutional Settings
RESC will be applied to organisational practices, governance processes and institutional environments to investigate how responsibility is distributed, recognised, assumed, negotiated or transferred.
AI-Mediated Decision-Making
Specific applications will examine responsibility in contexts where artificial intelligence or algorithmic systems influence decisions, with particular attention to human agency, gender equality and institutional accountability.
Cross-Cultural Experiences
Comparative experiences in different countries and cultural environments will help identify recurring elements, contextual differences and culturally situated interpretations of responsibility.

International Conferences and Scholarly Dialogue

RESC will also be presented and discussed at international conferences, academic seminars, research meetings and other spaces of scholarly exchange.

Questions, critical observations and alternative interpretations emerging from these exchanges will be systematically considered as part of the framework’s development. Dialogue with researchers from different disciplines and cultural contexts will help examine the conceptual coherence, clarity, relevance, limitations and potential transferability of RESC.

This process does not replace empirical testing. It constitutes a complementary form of critical scholarly examination through which the framework can be questioned, refined and progressively strengthened. 

A Documented and Open Testing Process

Each experience will be documented through a dedicated RESC Protocol and assigned a progressive identification number, beginning with RESC Protocol 01.

Information will be presented in accordance with ethical research principles, informed consent, confidentiality and data-protection requirements.

The protocols will not be used to assess conformity with a predetermined definition of responsibility. Their purpose will be to document each experience and examine whether RESC can help make visible how responsibility is understood, recognised, learned, negotiated and potentially transformed in different settings.

The framework will inform the interpretation of each experience. At the same time, the data, evidence, questions and critical observations generated through these experiences will be able to challenge, refine and further develop the framework itself.

Over time, the numbered protocols will create a transparent and cumulative record of how RESC has been tested, discussed and progressively developed.

RESC will not be tested outside experience, but through experience.

Each protocol will explain the experience in which RESC has been applied and will include, where relevant:

the title and identification number of the protocol;
the period and location of the experience;
the project, initiative or research context;
the organisations and countries involved;
the participants or target groups;
the objectives and research questions;
the activities and methods used;
the qualitative and quantitative data collected;
the qualitative and quantitative data collected;
the principal observations and emerging findings;
the critical feedback received;
the implications for the further development of RESC.