Project description
Training to engage citizens in social policies efficiently
Citizens in welfare systems often encounter inequality and vulnerability, limiting their ability to participate fully in society. Addressing these challenges requires identifying diverse perspectives on participation, overcoming barriers like power imbalances and lack of trust, and maximising the use of digital tools for engagement. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the Cocoso project promotes participation and co-construction as essential elements of democracy and innovation in social welfare. It focuses on providing training and conducting doctoral research to meet the growing need for meaningful and efficient citizen engagement in social services and policies. Cocoso will work with various partners and sectors to develop evidence-based knowledge and innovative methods for effective implementation.
Objective
COCOSO brings together 6 universities and 16 partners from the non-governmental and public sectors. This industrial doctoral network is dedicated to participation and co-construction as a core dimension of democracy and innovation in social welfare. Doctoral research and training are designed to address the pressing demand for meaningful and efficient participation of citizens involved in social services and policies: services users, practitioners, managers, decision and policy-makers. Citizens experiencing welfare systems are often subject to one or several factors of inequality and vulnerability, which directly or indirectly hinders their participation. To effectively address contemporary challenges in co-construction of social policies and practices requires the following steps:
- identify different perspectives on participation and co-construction;
- overcome power, trust and management barriers to embed co-construction in policies and services;
- address limitations in co-construction due to vulnerability and cross-sectionality;
- enhance the potential of digital tools for participation.
These tasks will be fulfilled by researchers under close collaboration and supervision of senior academic and industrial partners from different disciplines including social policy, education, sociology, management and history; as well as different sectors such as local authorities and non-for-profit social organisations.
Cocoso will thus contribute to develop:
(a) research- and practice-based evidence and knowledge about barriers and facilitators to co-construction;
(b) edge-cutting methods to embed co-construction in practice and collaborative research (networking of universities, NGOs, users, local authorities) and
(c) effective implementation of co-construction by highly skilled researchers who will be well prepared to face the challenges experienced by organisations and policy-makers in their relationships with vulnerable citizens.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Coordinator
92001 Nanterre Cedex
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Participants (6)
9220 Aalborg
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1300-663 LISBOA
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691 00 KOMOTINI
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00-927 WARSZAWA
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6020 Innsbruck
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2610 143 Amadora Lisboa
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Partners (15)
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9000 Aalborg
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010406 Bucuresti
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46980 Paterna
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2700-595 Amadora
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546 42 Thessaloniki
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75002 Paris
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17673 KALLITHEA ATTIKIS
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75976 Paris
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1067 København K
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WC1H 9JE London
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00-590 Warszawa
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41012 Carpi Mo
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6020 Innsbruck
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10179 Berlin
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04-073 Warszawa
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