CIMULACT had as a main objective to add to the relevance and accountability of European research and innovation – Horizon 2020 as well as national - by engaging citizens and stakeholders in co-creation of research agendas based on real and validated societal visions, needs and demands. The project expanded the outlook and debate on STI issues, increased scientific literacy in a broad sense, which includes the understanding of the societal role of Science, Technology and innovation (STI), and created shared understanding between scientific stakeholders, policy-makers and citizens. This multiactor approach embraced EU28 plus Norway and Switzerland.
The CIMULTACT built on the principle/conviction that the collective intelligence of society gives Europe a competitive advantage, which could be activated to strengthen the relevance of the European science and technology system. By establishing genuine dialogue between citizens, stakeholders, scientists, and policymakers visions and scenarios for the desirable futures would be developed and debated, and transformed into recommendations and suggestions for research and innovation policies and topics.

In short, CIMULACT achieved the followings:

• Created vision and scenarios that could connect societal needs with future expected advances in Science and their impact on technology, society, environment etc. in connection to the grand challenges
• Provided concrete input to Horizon 2020 through recommendations and policy options for R&I and simulated calls for the Horizon2020 Work Programmes.
• Engaged citizens and stakeholders in a highly participatory debate/consultation/process on scenarios for desirable sustainable futures and research
• Built capacities in citizen and multi-actor engagement in R&I through development, experimentation, training and assessment of methods for engagement
• Facilitated dialogue and shared understanding between policymakers, citizens, and stakeholders
• Revealed the relative merits of the citizen focussed consultations

A more detailed description and more related materails can be found at the CIMULACT project website.

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