RAISD D3.4 TAIS Methodology and Guidelines

RAISD D3.4 offers a brief overview of the 8 TAIS pilots and describes the 3 methodological principles -RRI, AR and SEMs-, followed by the partners’ description of the TAIS process after the first evaluation period, including practical aspects, benefits and difficulties inherent to the methodology triad. Thereafter, both expected and unexpected impacts caused by the TAIS are exposed and lessons learned as well as partner’s ideas for TAIS future application are offered in final conclusions.

The current deliverable D3.4 constitutes the final version of the report on TAIS methodology and guidelines, and it builds upon the previous D3.3 preliminary version. Whereas D3.3. offers the basic methodology guidance for the design and uptake of the Tailored Attention and Inclusion Strategies (TAIS) and covers partner organisations’ insights on the process until the first evaluation round, the current deliverable engages in taking a deep look at the application of the methodology in the design, implementation and evaluation of the TAIS, pondering the benefits and challenges of the application of the triangular methodology consisting of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Action Research (AR) and Socio-ecological models (SEMs). D4.3 offers guidelines for a correct use of the research approach and gives guidelines for integrating the methodology into the practice. A gender sensitive and integrated gender approach is one of the key principles of the RRI discipline that frames the project, and also, it is key for the TAIS process. Therefore, our team has considered it interesting to include step to step recommendations for embedding the gender approach into a research and innovation project, based on our experience with the project and the TAIS. First hand experiences can be useful for those interested in working in TAIS-related approaches in the future, and for this end, the current report also shares partner organisations insights about the methodological challenges and practical issues related to the daily practice of the TAIS. D3.4 mainly takes it from the second TAIS implementation round, describing the re-design and the practical changes that were required and implemented by the partners after the evaluation rounds, whereas the practical questions of the first implementation period are included in D3.3.