ENJOI reviewed results and outcomes from previous SC projects and a trove of published literature and reports focusing on diverse aspects of SC (other Swafs19 projects; science festivals and fairs; reports from Nieman Lab, Reuters Institute for Journalism; meetings and papers by PCST; ECSITE; ESOF and more).
The literature and landscape research, as well as the EWs results, indicate at least 3 blind spots that might benefit from research and co-creation activities in the second part of ENJOI and beyond: digital innovation in SJ; in-depth engagement, and the ability to reach and co-work with people and communities who do not seem interested or attracted to science. These 3 blind spots have become more evident while working on the results from the 4 EWs integrated with insights and learned lessons from the desk and landscape research. Therefore the SPIs resulted thus far need to be further tested and developed during the Labs with 4-helix stakeholders before being organized into a useful Manifesto for OOSC. The Labs will explore new ways of creating, delivering, and receiving content and information on science.
The activities deployed in RP1 set the scene for the next more tangible phase: co-designing, producing and testing 2 sets of innovative, practical tools for various SC users and 4-helix stakeholders. The tools consist of training resources, academic courses, inspirational e-books for scientists, guidelines for policy-makers to support them in communicating risk and crisis-related issues to a broad range of communities, and MOOC or webinars for media producers in SC.
These outputs will be available to producers and users of SC through the Observatory for OOSC to foster capacity building and collaboration of all actors in the field. Special care will be put into reaching out to those producers and users who are not specialists and experts in the field of SC.
ENJOI will continue and reinforce the collaboration with the other Swafs19 projects through meetings, joint proposals, conferences, and joint publications, such as the Opinion article published in the OA journal Frontiers in environmental sciences. Furthermore, the collaboration between all Swafs19 projects, and the exploitation of the ENJOI outcomes, is ensured by the success of the joint proposal COALESCE, a project that aims to build the European competence center for SC, due to start in early 2023 and to continue for 4 years.
ENJOI aims to go beyond the EU region. Thanks to existing connections with Latin America, it will set up collaborative workshops with relevant stakeholders overseas to enhance bi-directional knowledge exchange and incorporate the non-western perspective on SC.
