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Home » Deliverables » D4.2B- Outcomes of co-creation workshops round 2

D4.2B- Outcomes of co-creation workshops round 2

This report describes the design and outcomes of the second stakeholder workshops organised in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Spain.

The GoNano project is built on the assumption that several types of knowledge are needed to define sustainability, acceptability, and desirability of nanotechnologies. To test this hypothesis, GoNano explores opportunities and barriers for co-creation in different thematic areas (Health, Food and Energy), combining face-to-face citizen engagement, stakeholder workshops and online consultations.

This report is about the final stakeholder workshop organised in the pilot countries in October and November 2019. The aim the workshops was to elucidate the preconditions for co-creation, building on the insights gained in the earlier stages of the project. As can be read in the full report, the second stakeholder workshop complemented the findings from the earlier stages of the GoNano co-creation process. They point to new opportunities for enabling co-creation between different stakeholders, but also suggest new barriers.

Read the full report here D4.2B – Outcomes of co-creation workshops round 2

 

In summary

The three pilot partners organised a series of face-to-face citizen workshops in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Spain in October/November 2018 (see the briefing report2 for further information on the outcomes of the citizen workshops). The second round of stakeholder workshops was organised in the pilot countries in October and November 2019. The aim the workshops was to elucidate the preconditions for co-creation, building on the insights gained in the earlier stages of the project.

Workshop design

Building on insights gained from earlier stages of the project, the second stakeholder workshop focussed on exploring how input from citizens can be productively engaged in concrete research and innovation decisions. The product suggestions derived from the first workshops (please see D4.2a – Working paper on the designs and outcomes of round 1) and subsequent input from the online consultation were used as a starting point.

Like the first workshops, the programme was structured around the four main pillars of co-creation: exploration, ideation, prototyping and reflection.

Workshop findings

In the report, three national reports on the workshop can be found which present a rich descriptions of the events themselves, the characteristics of the participants, the plenary and subgroup discussions, (implicit) group dynamics and tangible outputs (notably completed templates and the initial responses from stakeholders to the messages from citizens and the storyboards) as well as reflections on the workshop objectives (testing the main hypothesis).

Reflection on the findings

Participants highly appreciated the events in all three pilot countries and were very positive about acquiring new information, fresh ideas and new perspectives on research and innovation. Many agreed that the early consideration of societal needs and values can add value to innovation in nanotechnologies. That said, participants also expressed some doubt about the future impact of the workshops. It points to a difficulty experienced throughout the co-creation process: the difficulty of translating general insights on the relevance of societal considerations into concrete actions.

The workshop also showed how bringing stakeholders with different backgrounds together leads to relevant discussions and insights for product development and research projects. However, the GoNano project also aimed to take these insights one step further: to derive concrete product suggestions from the interactions. This proved to be quite a challenge.

Co-creation clearly can address multiple objectives: it can be used as a tool to ‘open up’ research trajectories, inviting multiple stakeholders who would normally not be included in research decision making, and exploring how their views might be more productively integrated in research and innovation trajectories. Another possible aim of co-creation is to ‘add value’ to ongoing research trajectories, by inviting feedback from specific stakeholders (prospective users for example) on particular research decisions, and seeing how this feedback might improve the research outcome (by making it more efficient, cheaper, or more acceptable, for instance). Both approaches are valid and promising. However, the GoNano experience suggests that perhaps it is too much to expect both objectives to be addressed simultaneously in the context of a European project.

Read the full report D4.2B – Outcomes of co-creation workshops round 2

D1.1- Building on the State-of-the-art: ex-post evaluation on mutual learning

D1.2- Understanding the role of culture, gender and communication traditions, and their implications for GoNano engagement methodologies

D1.3- Nanotech in food, energy and health: what areas and issues for a dialogue?

D2.1- Towards a GoNano co-creation approach

D2.2- Co-creation platform

D3.1- Information material for citizens’ workshops

D3.2- Briefing report on citizen needs and values in relation to nanotechnology in food, energy and health

D3.3- Briefing report on the outcomes of the online consultation

D4.1- Background material for stakeholder workshops

D4.2- Working paper on GoNano stakeholder workshops

D4.2B- Outcomes of co-creation workshops round 2*

D4.3- Evaluation report on the outcomes of the Mobilisation and Mutual Learning platform*

D4.4- Insights and lessons from the engagement activities*

D4.5- Concrete product suggestions for future nanotechnologies*

D5.1- Risk governance and research & innovation priorities in Nanotechnologies

D5.2 – Second briefing report on the nanotechnology RI policy context as input to developing the GoNano white papers

D5.3- Collection of the GoNano White papers

D5.4 – Is there a business case for co-creation in Nanotechnology research and innovation?

D5.5 – Policy Briefs

D6.1 – A collection of training material for researchers and engineers

D6.2- Online guidelines and easy-to-understand information for publics and stakeholders groups wanting to be involved with nanotechnology R&I

D6.3- Report collecting the materials and participant list from the Winter School*

D6.4 – The GoNano Online Conference

D7.1- GoNano communication and branding plan

D7.3- Info package 1

D7.4- Info package 2

D7.5 – Info package 3

D7.6 – Report on all the audiovisual vignettes from throughout the project

D8.3- External evaluation to monitor and support the project

D8.4 – Final external evaluation report: Assessment of the co-creation process

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