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🎤 At #RSA25, we also chaired the session “Political Activity, Participation and Co-Producing Regional Futures” – featuring a fantastic group of researchers, lecturers, and practitioners exploring the real meaning of co-production ✨

📌 Highlights:

✅ Mairead McCann presented simulation-based methods to spark political interest, showing how civic education can be hands-on and powerful.  

✅ Patricia Feiertag & Lena Unger (TU Dortmund) critically examined how “co-production” is used – and sometimes misused – in planning. 

✅ Dayna Cueva Alegría (University of Kentucky) spotlighted water justice and community-led governance through collaborative models. 

✨ The session showed why citizen engagement isn’t optional – it’s foundational to building more just, inclusive regional futures.

📌 These themes align with the EU’s CERV programme and reflect ECSA’s work promoting participatory governance and democratized knowledge through citizen science.

🔗 Through RIECS-Concept, we’re developing the research infrastructure needed to support impactful, cross-disciplinary citizen science across Europe.

👥 If you’re working in co-production, civic tech, or citizen-led research, let’s connect.

Published 2025-07-03