Deliverable 3.2 Programmes and concepts for all citizen and multi-actor consultations

This deliverable includes the results obtained during 50 National Research & Policy workshops (NRPs) held as part of the second consultation phase of the CIMULACT project. At least one workshop was held in each of 30 participating European countries (28 EU member states + Norway and Switzerland) in the period September 2nd until October 8th 2016.

CIMULACT stands for ‘Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon 2020’.1 The project engages citizens, along with a wide range of other actors, in redefining the European Research and Innovation agenda and thereby making it more relevant and accountable to society.

While the first phase of the CIMULACT project aimed at collecting visions for sustainable and desirable futures formulated by European citizens. The second phase of the project aimed at transforming these visions into research and policy options.

The scope of the NRPs was twofold: 1) Test, validate, enrich and prioritise the research programme scenarios developed during the first phase of the project (WP2.1), 2) Experiment with methods for co-creating research and policy recommendations by citizens and multi-actors.

Consulting different target groups and using a variety of concepts for consulting these groups the research programme scenarios have been enriched by a diverse group of citizens and societal actors with a high diversity of perspectives. All together 977 European citizens and multi-actors were consulted during the NRPs.

In order to understand the context in which the NRPs were held it is central to understand the structure of the CIMULACT project. For the same reason the first half of this summary presents the CIMULACT project and its results until the NRPs, while the second half of the summary will focus on the results of the NRPs.

The programmes, concepts, and outcome of the consultations are presented in national reports which are to be found in extension of the summary.