About Resource
The Action Catalogue is a resource developed as a part of the European Union’s Engage2020 project and serves as a tool for researchers, policymakers, and others to use for identifying and designing inclusive public engagement methodologies. The resource is one deliverable of the Engage2020 project, which aims to map the various practices of engagement and spread awareness about the opportunities and benefits of increased public engagement in research. More information about the Engage2020 project—including its full suite of outcomes—is available in the project’s comprehensive e-Anthology on Science, Society and Engagement.
As an activity of Engage2020, the project convened six workshops, each with a focus on one of the European Grand Challenges, and brought together experts, stakeholders, and policymakers. The knowledge generated from these workshops helped inform the development of the Action Catalogue resource.
The tool was launched in partnership by the Danish Board of Technology Foundation; the Karlsruhe Institute of Tech; Involve; the University of Groningen; the Arc Fund; and Dialogik. The project was funded through the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration. By making the Action Catalogue a public resource, the project aims to provide organizers of research and public engagement with the tools needed to make such engagement inclusive to all.
How to Use
The catalogue currently hosts 57 different methods, all of which foster inclusive public engagement. A brief overview of each method can be found in this report published by the project.
You can search through the methods by 32 different criteria, that range from more general criteria (e.g., objective, geographical scope, etc.) to skill level (e.g., necessary skill level of facilitators, project managers, organizers, etc.) to practical considerations (e.g., number of participants, skills, time, etc.). Objectives include several approaches to community science such as Dialogue & Deliberation (policy formation) and Participatory Research (shaping research agendas, surfacing ideas for new scientific research and technology development, i.e. "project definition").
Author(s)/Organization: Engage2020: A Project of the European Union
Publication Year: 2015
Tags
Attributes:Equity-Focused, Aims for Action
Outcomes:Sustainable Solutions for Society, Impactful Scientific Research, Inspiration for New Science
Approaches:Dialogue & Deliberation, Participatory Research
Type:Databases & Collections