Siscode
SISCODE (2018-2021)
Horizon 2020
€ 3.999.268,75
€ 229.625
Fab Lab Barcelona
Co-design for society in science and innovation
Parteners
Politecnico di Milano (Coordinator) (IT), APRE – Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (IT), Technical University of Dortmund (DE), Ecsite – Association Européenne des Expositions Scientifiques Techniques et Industrielles Ecsite (BE), Stichting Museum Voor Industrie en Samenleving Continium (NL), SPI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação – Consultadoria Empresarial e Fomento da Inovação S.A. (PT), IAAC -Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya / Fab Lab Barcelona (ES), Ciencia Viva – Agencia Nacional Para a Cultura Cientifica e Tecnologica (PT), TRACES – Théories et Réflexions sur L’Apprendre la Communication et l’Éducation Scientifiques (FR), AUTH – University of Thessaloniki AUTH (GR), UCL – University College London (UK), Biosense Institute – Research and Development Institute for Information Technologies in Biosystems (RS), Trinity College Dublin (IR), Krakow Technology Park (PL), DDC – Danish Design Centre (DK), Makea Industries GMBH (Fab Lab Berlin) (DE), Foreningen Maker (Uderbroen Fab Lab) (DK), ENoLL – European Network of Living Labs (BE).
The project
The SISCODE project bridges the gap between co-creation, policymaking and science, enabling local community members to become active stakeholders in decision making and practical solution-finding. The SISCODE project experiments co-creation in 10 existing fab labs, living labs and science centres across Europe.
Different policies and programmes have been developed across Europe, over the last decade, to increase the permeability between science, innovation and society to render the former two better oriented towards the needs, demands and expectations of the latter.
The overarching aim of SISCODE is to better understand co-creation as a bottom-up and design-driven phenomenon that is flourishing in Europe (in fab labs, living labs, social innovations, smart cities, communities and regions), to analyse favourable conditions that support its scalability and replication and to use this knowledge to cross-fertilise RRI practices and policies. This aim is articulated along three main operational objectives:
1. to create and run a European-wide study of existing local, regional, national and European co-creation ecosystems and to describe effective dynamics and outcomes for the implementable integration of society in science and innovation. The study will analyse and compare the following: the different cultural, organisational, institutional and regulatory conditions under which co-creation flourishes; the diversities among actors and stakeholders involved (gender, culture, education and backgrounds) that favour co-creation; the typologies of challenges and the citizens they affect (including vulnerable groups, women, children, migrants etc.); and the characteristics of the co-produced solutions;
2. to experiment with design as a new system of competences on which to build capacity for implementable co-creation in RRI and STI policy making;
3. to understand the cultural, organisational and procedural transformations needed to embed co-creation as a design-driven approach in RRI processes and STI policy making, overcoming barriers and resistance to change.
Our Contribution
Fab Lab Barcelona was in charge of supporting the setup of the experimentation in collaboration with the other supporting partners. We have co-elaborated a co-creation journey toolbox that aimed to guide the labs in understanding, framing and applying co-creation in their local contexts. For more than 18 months (January 2019 – November 2020), we have proposed regular peer-to-peer learning sessions, individual coaching and reporting tools to support the translation of theoretical concepts and real needs into concrete actions.
More info here: https://fablabbcn.org/projects/siscode-el-barri-circular
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 788217.
