Kersti Ruth Wissenbach On October 18 to 20 CoAct organised its Final Event Week. These three days full of activities were not meant to close the curtain though. Rather did we wish to take a moment to look back, reflect, discuss, and to look ahead...
Kersti Wissenbach On December 14, 2022 we celebrated the launch of our Global Perspectives publication. We took the opportunity to introduce the authors and their contributions to the five topics of the publication to a wider audience. The...
By Khan Rahi, Canadian Community-Based Research Network, Toronto, Canada In 2016, the Canadian Community-Based Research Network (CCRN) and its volunteers, based in Toronto, Canada, held a series of community-wide conversations to identify community...
Over the last three years, GIG acted as consortium partner of the Horizon 2020 project CoAct, which set out to develop a Citizen Social Science Approach. As one of our main responsibilities was to build a community, we made it one of our core...
By Andrew Anda Wöndu The formal educational system in South Sudan has its origins in the mid-nineteenth-century British colonial period. Christian missionaries set up mission schools to train natives for evangelization and recruitment into the...
By Julia Kleeberger On this school day, the classroom of 7a at the Kurt-Schwitters-Oberschule presents a different picture than usual: In one corner of the room, some students are sitting and building a gripper arm that can be operated with one hand...
By Yine Yenki Nyika For a very long time, and globally, women and girls shy away from science. Yet, our mothers, in one way or the other, practice science every single day. The limited recognition of local traditional activities, such as brewing and...
Nurturing a shared understandings of concepts and opening up knowledge in cross-disciplinary research By Kersti R. Wissenbach Critical Making session during DOtS 19, Nakuru, Kenya On September 22, GIG hosted its final hangout addressing pressing...
Hangout Recap by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach Jaiksana Soro – Platform Africa & Stephen Kovats – r0g_agency Picture credits rCC-BY-SA Pawel Ngei On September 15, GIG hosted the 4th out of 5 hangouts, addressing pressing issues to enable...
After three exciting and intense years, CoAct is coming to an end. Therefore, we are organising three days of knowledge sharing, reflecting, and discussing the future of Citizen Social Science, or participatory research engaging civil society and...
