Report on the difficulties found in the implementation processes - ETHNA System Project – Deliverable 5.5

This report is a detailed account of the key discussion points and findings of four participatory evaluation workshops with the ETHNA System implementing partners, internal and external stakeholders held online in September and October 2022. The main aim of this report is to collect the difficulties found in the implementation processes while looking for common and divergent points which will feed into the last evaluative and analytical tasks of the ETHNA project.

The overarching goal of this series of workshops was to involve the participants in shaping the evaluation questions within the themes of the Living Labs, the methodology of the ETHNA Lab process and the ethical governance system ETHNA System. The workshops were organised as semi-structured events centred on these main themes, leaving great flexibility to pursue questioning and dialogue among participants. Furthermore, the participatory approach generated collective reflections on the insights and lessons learned from the ETHNA System implementation, as well as ethical governance as a whole. The workshops employed a diversity of exchange formats to support mutual learning and feedback gathering as needed. Some desirable results are recommendations to improve the ETHNA System implementation.