Enabling co-creation in nanotechnologies

ACTION is an EU-funded project which aims to transform the way we do Citizen Science today. They created methodologies, tools and guidelines, and provide funding that will democratise the scientific process, allowing anyone to design and realise a citizen science project.

Citizen Sience projects are often science-led proceces, but ACTION aims to transform it into a more participatory, inclusive and citizen-led one. Citizens are stimulated to develop a pollution focused project from the early stages of project ideation to validating and publishing the results and beyond. Read more information on their website.

How to get involved

• Download the Toolkit to use co-designed methodologies and socio-technical tools which aim to simplifying the everyday life of Citizen Science projects and supporting their sustainability.
• Register to be part of the Accelerator projects. This will provide you with a set of services, tailored to the needs of each CS project, including: training, mentoring, infrastructure to host projects and their data; promotion and networking.
• Apply for ACTION funding to stimulate your Citizen Science initiative

NewHoRRIzon is an EU-funded project that organizes multiple social labs with the aim to further integrating Responsible Research and Innovation in the research and innovation systems on national and international levels.

To achieve this, they organize 19 Social Labs, co-create pilot actions and activities, and develop narratives and storylines based on the experience from these pilots. Please visit their website for more information.

How to get involved

• Participate in Social Labs
• Use the practical guidance of the Societal Readiness Thinking Tool on how to mature the societal readiness of research projects.

LIVIN is an EU-funded project that offers various participation possibilities that aim to develop responsible, smart home solutions that tackle societal challenges and respond to pressing societal trends.

The initiative involves industry leaders that engage with lead users in co-creation processes to create solutions that meet user needs and leverage collective creativity to uncover new business opportunities. Please see their website for more information!

How to get involved

• Listen to Webinars
• Participate in LIV_IN labs and Workshops

REFLOW is an EU-funded project that organizes six pilot studies across Europe to understand and transform urban material flows to co-create and test circular and regenerative solutions at business, governance and citizen levels.

REFLOW seeks to understand and transform urban material flows and to co-create and test circular and regenerative solutions at business, governance and citizen levels. Six pilot cities across Europe will test approaches to city circularity each focusing on a different resource flow. At the heart of these pilots is a productive ‘making’ approach that empowers citizens and engages policy makers and industry leaders. Please see their website for more information!

How to get involved

• participate in one of the 6 pilot studies
  • Textile (NL)
  • Revamping (DU)
  • Food market 2.0 (IT)
  • Fair Tracker (FR)
  • Circular plastics (DN)
  • PlEnergy (RO)

HubIT is an EU-funded project that aims to activate the constructive interactions between ICT developers, SSH researchers and other stakeholders  leading to a responsible approach to research and innovation through the uptake of SSH expertise and RRI actions

The direct objective of HubIT is to build a Hub that will activate and improve constructive and co-creative interactions between SSH and ICT disciplines in developing and implementing a shared vision of inclusive ICT research and innovation. Read more about the project on their website.

How to get involved

• Read about how to make technology closer to society
• Go to the Forum and discuss the hottest topics in the application of responsible research and innovation in ICT through Social Sciences and Humanities

GRRIP is an EU-funded project that organizes various engagement possibilities stimulate the implementation of Responsible Research and Innovation to fundamentally improve research in the Blue Economy.

One part of their project is about co-creating the future with citizens and civil society organisations, and also bringing on board the widest possible diversity of actors that would not normally interact with each other, on matters of science and technology. Please visit their website for more information.

How to get involved

• Participate in one of the public engagement possibilities

SISCODE is an EU-funded project that has set up 10 co-creation labs around Europe to co-create solutions for different challenges. These labs will be instrumental to pollinate RRI practices and Science Technology and Innovation policies and to close the gap between the ideation and the implementation of co-created policies.

SISCODE aims at stimulating the use of bottom-design-driven methodologies to pollinate Responsible Research and Innovation, and Science Technology and Innovation Policies. They believe in real life experimentation and have therefore set up these co-creation labs to co-create solutions about health and well-being, agriculture,  digital manufacturing and more. Please vitsit their website for more information.

How to get involved

• Participate in one of their Co-creation labs

D-NOSES is an EU-funded project which aims to empower citizens with ​Responsible Research and Innovation, citizen science and co-creation tools to design odour pollution control measures at local, national and global levels with multiple stakeholders.

D-NOSES aims to kickstart a much-needed collaborative journey to tackle the problem of odours at a global scale by developing coordinated local case studies in 10 European and non-European countries. On a later stage, they will produce Do-It-Yourself guidelines for project replicability. Read more information on their website.

How to get involved

• Register for one of the 10 local case studies

System2020 is an EU-funded project that gathered scientific learning initiatives in a interactive map to stimulate Learning Together, Expanding Horizons and Reshaping Science by learning outside the classroom.

System2020 supports scientific learning initiatives outside the classroom by mapping initiatives and providing a general overview map. When you visit the map, all registered initiatives are displayed as dots all over Europe! Setting can be changed to find a suitable science club, science café, FabLAp etc. Please visit their website for more information

How to get involved

• See the scientific learning initiatives map