Stephanie Ligan et al. (HEBEDI)
This workshop concentrates on the pitfalls of co‑creation across its full cycle: from defining problems and designing approaches and solutions, through implementation and monitoring, to refinement and learning. Co‑creation is understood as a broad framework that involves diverse societal and scientific actors. Citizen science represents one specific form of participation that can play a role in several stages of this process. Based on the experiences of FEdA projects, the workshop will build on a
pre‑conference survey and one‑page project briefs in which participants highlight challenges, recurrent mistakes, and lessons learned. These inputs will provide a basis for the workshop’s collaborative analysis. During the session, participants will map and cluster pitfalls into thematic categories, using them as a starting point for creative dialogue. By focusing on what can and does go wrong, the workshop aims to surface structural, methodological, and relational obstacles that shape co‑creation processes. At the same time, discussing pitfalls also points indirectly to enabling conditions for successful co‑creation. The results will form the foundation for a joint scientific publication, with further elaboration and refinement through post‑conference online workshops.
The organizers invite all FEdA members (participation in the workshop or the conference not required) to fill out a survey (available here) and a 1-page project brief (available here) by October 19.
