D4.4 Reports on 4 co-creation activities

The four co-creation activities were conducted as part of the Horizon Europe project INSPIRE - Centre of Excellence on inclusive Gender Equality in Research and Innovation: Creating Knowledge & Engaging in Collaborative Action.

The aim of the co-creation workshops was two-fold: to disseminate research being done in INSPIRE to the INSPIRE Community of Practice (CoP) members, and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., stakeholders and consortium partners from sister projects), and to translate the research findings into practice-based tools for CoP members and practitioners through a creative, collaborative exchange.

INSPIRE has involved 12 Communities of Practice (CoPs) in total, who are supported by Knowledge and Support Hubs in the fields of:

-       1) sustaining and deepening change

-       2) widening participation

-       3) intersectionality

-       4) innovation

A Community of Practice is defined as a group of “people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis” (Wenger, McDermott, Snyder 2002[1]).

CoPs in INSPIRE are used as the bridge-builders between knowledge and practice, which is central to the project. As such, in the context of the co-creation workshops, CoP members, drawing upon their rich practice-based experience, gave feedback on the ways INSPIRE project findings could be best translated and adapted into practical tools for change. The co-creation workshops (described in depth in INSPIRE’s Co-Creation Framework under T4.3) are structured online sessions facilitated by SDU and relevant partners to encourage active participation and idea exchange, which help with the development of concepts, policies, solutions and tools among participants. As such, the results feed into T6.1 Production of toolkit/training assets, open training units and support packages.

This report summarizes the process and results of each of the co-creation workshops, as well as how the INSPIRE consortium and KSH leaders integrated the feedback in order to best transform their research results into practice-based tools.