ENGAGED: Co-Creating Ireland’s Public Engagement and Open Research Road Map

Lead investigator: Professor Jo-Hanna Ivers, Associate Dean, Civic Engagement for Societal Impact, Trinity College Dublin

Project primary contact: Michael Foley, Civic Engagement for Societal Impact Manager mfoley3@tcd.ie

Lead administrative institution: Trinity College Dublin

Funding call: 2023 Open Research Fund. Strand I: Priority Actions

Targeted priority action: Public Engagement and Open Research

Governance:

A Project Management Team led by Professor Ivers, and a Project Advisory Group with representatives from key stakeholders to guide the process.

Overview of the project:

ENGAGED will co-create a road map for open research in Ireland. This will be achieved through a thorough understanding of how public engagement is presented in the literature, as well as through a series of collective intelligence workshops with multiple stakeholders across the academic, public and NGO sectors. The project seeks to build knowledge and capacity but also a network to implement the road map and, thereby, advance the level and quality of public engagement in open research across Ireland.

Resources and outputs: 

The planned principle outputs are:

• a road map and action plan for public engagement in open research
• a comprehensive international evidence review
• a dissemination event
• a project evaluation.