From pilots to practice: training Horizon projects on citizen engagement for Knowledge Valorisation

From pilots to practice: training Horizon projects on citizen engagement for Knowledge Valorisation

A full-day session in Brussels brought together five Horizon Europe projects to exchange methods and lessons on embedding citizen engagement into Knowledge Valorisation practice.
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DATE

15 June 2026

On the 7th May in Brussels, in collaboration with Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Stickydot delivered a full-day capacity-building session for a group of Horizon Europe projects funded under the call Experimentation and exchange of good practices for value creation. Coordinators and partners from Beagle, Kaleidos, ERIS, GreenEsteem and MedView projects joined for a day focused on citizen engagement in Knowledge Valorisation.

Stickydot and Fondazione Giannino Bassetti walked participants through the evolution of the project’s Knowledge Valorisation framework and shared methods, tools and hands-on experiences drawn from the CO-VALUE pilots. Citizen engagement is at the heart of what Stickydot does and this was an opportunity to share what we have learned with CO-VALUE project and pilots that can meaningfully apply it in their own contexts.

The following day, on the 8th May, all six project coordinators and our Policy Officers came together for a joint meeting. The agenda combined project updates, collective reflection on policy lessons emerging from each project’s experimentation and a first mapping of a shared roadmap for future collaboration across the group.

Two productive days that reinforced both the practice and the community around Knowledge Valorisation in Europe.

Florence Gignac

PROJECT ASSISTANT

“It is inspiring to contribute to a scientific research environment that remains anchored in the realities and interests of a variety of individuals. Collaborating with the public takes your scientific knowledge off the beaten track and challenges you to take a creative approach to your scientific practice. Go ahead: once you try participatory research, you won’t look back!”

At Stickydot, Florence provides support on citizen science and public engagement projects. Florence has been applying participatory approaches in the fields of environment and public health for over five years. She cares deeply about making every step of a scientific research project inclusive, creative and sustainable.