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...
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...
This policy brief tables recommendations to strengthen mental health social support networks as a result of the design and implementation of a new Citizen Social Science (CSS) project. Social support is a positive factor in mental health recovery...
This CoAct Research and Innovation Action #2 Youth Employment policy brief summarises the findings and recommendations from the co-research process with young people in employment measures in Vienna (Austria). The recommendations for policymakers...
This policy brief argues the need to better connect Citizen Social Science (CSS) with Sanitation Policy in the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin. The complexity of the socio-environmental problems at stake and the participatory mandate of national and...
The CoAct project aims to support the United Nations’ fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality by supporting civic organisations using Citizen Social Science (CSS) methods for gender-based projects. CoAct defines CSS as...
The D4.4 report prepares the key findings of the co-research with young people in E&T up to 18 measures for an international audience, especially policymakers and researchers working on the topic of youth employment. Policy Guidelines and...
During the exhibition programme, the team of the University of Vienna organised a panel discussion about the topic “Changing social policy through participatory research?! Challenges, goals and achievements”. The panel was composed of...
At the vernissage of the exhibition, the main results of R&I Action #2 were presented by the project team. To embed the results in a more extensive research context of youth employment, Gabriele Pessl from the Institute for Advanced Studies was...
