WP5

Main objectives: This WP aims to connect this project to its academic, societal and political environment, so that it can benefit and learn from the results of other projects, as well as feeding learning into current and future ones. A part of the work will be devoted to take advantage of the expertise of the members of the Living Knowledge (LK) network, to which the partners belong, on the subjects studied in WP2, WP3 and WP4. Then the WP will give them, as well as all interested organisations or individuals, the benefit of the results of the work carried out in this project, to enable them to discuss the early drafts of outputs and then to compile feedback and recommendations into an online FAQ. A website, newsletters and multiple posts on social media will also be published to promote the projects outcome.

What has been done and next steps: We organized an initial round of focus groups (2) and interviews (3) with experts on Community Engaged Research (CER) involved in the Living Knowledge network. The aim was to share with them the initial work, hypotheses, and methodologies proposed by the three project partners—TU Dublin, ULB, and UNISS—to gather their feedback and allow them to contribute their experiences to the project. The insights gained from these discussions will be incorporated into an online FAQ on the project website, making best practices in CER accessible to as many people as possible. This FAQ is expected to be continuously updated throughout the project: two additional rounds of focus groups and interviews are planned for 2027 and 2028. At the same time, efforts to promote Togetherness and disseminate its outcomes are underway: the project website, presentations of Togetherness at international events (the 11th Living Knowledge Conference in Gdańsk, the Fourth International Conference of the journal “Scuola Democratica”), …