Bereich: Forschungspolitik & Entwicklung

Experiences from three years of Co-designing Citizen Social Science for Collective Action (CoAct)

This policy brief provides policymakers, civil society organisations and research performing institutions with recommendations on how to use Citizen Social Science to support and shape social change. It offers an introduction to the approach and lays out the benefits and challenges experienced. It is based on the outcomes of the international research project CoAct funded by the European Union that implements and reflects participatory research methods and their impacts in different settings and regions.

Download: https://zenodo.org/record/7433089

This policy brief is supplemented by the CoAct Policy Report offering more details and background.

Citation: Katja Mayer, & Stefanie Schuerz. (2022). Citizen Social Science: a promising approach for more participation in knowledge production and decision making (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7433089

AutorInnen: Mayer, K., Schuerz, S.

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• News: Probleme durch Partizipation lösen
• Projekt: Co­designing Citizen Social Science for Collective Action
• News: Trust in Science and Democracy
• Publikation: Policy Report: Opportunities and Challenges of Citizen Social Science
• News: CoAct wins European Citizen Science Prize

Tags: citizen science, citizen social science, participation, policy recommendations