Our publications range from reports, guides, toolkits, and perspectives to showcase the results of our collaborative projects, events, and research activities, as well as the insights and experiences of our diverse community members. Here, we aim to share our knowledge and practices to inspire more people to join us in creating positive change through open and inclusive innovation.
Critical Making Practical Guidelines
Critical Making has been exploring the potential of the maker movement for social and responsible innovation. By engaging directly with the communities in participatory research processes the consortium aimed to show how maker spaces and maker practices can offer new opportunities for young makers of all genders to contribute to an open society via open source innovation.
2023
Critical Making Open Hardware Programme
The Critical Making Open Hardware Mentorship Program aimed to support global makers and innovators in shaping a sustainable future of making. Over the span of nine months, 18 mentees received guidance and input from our esteemed teachers on key principles of the sustainable making framework for their projects.
2023
Critical Making Final Report on Communication, Exploitation and Dissemination
The report showcases the project’s milestones, which include extensive community engagement through diverse case actions, scholarly papers that have been published, active participation in academic and popularised conferences, and the creation of comprehensive guides to promote inclusivity in making practices.
2023
Open Science for Peacebuilding Toolkit
Open science offers the means to develop and build tools to help us overcome conflicts. Open science and data literacy equip us to think critically about the root causes and potential solutions to many struggles. And finally, open science can serve as a vehicle for peace building in communities through collaborative events such as hackathons or marathons.
2022
Global Perspectives on Citizen Social Science
Bringing together together voices from around the globe to unpack what CSS needs to account for to be inclusive. Voices from diverse contexts share what science should look like when accounting for multiple voices, needs, and traditions worldwide. During ten months, we collected contributions from around the world in five key topics, compiled in this publication.
2022
CoAct Final Report on Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation
This document is the final report for CoAct’s consortium Communication and Dissemination activities led by the Global Innovation Gathering e.V. (GIG). During 36 months, CoAct delivered the Citizen Social Science concepts and practices to more than 1,6 million people, using a wide range of communication strategies and tools, combined with intense resilience and creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
Covid-19 Response From Global Makers: The Careables Cases of Global Design and Local Production
Open science offers the means to develop and build tools to help us overcome conflicts. Open science and data literacy equip us to think critically about the root causes and potential solutions to many struggles. And finally, open science can serve as a vehicle for peace building in communities through collaborative events such as hackathons or marathons.
2021
Careables Final Dissemination and Sustainability Report
This report sums up the most important communication and outreach activities, shows the reach we gained overall for the Careables activities during the H2020 funded project duration and gives an outlook into the future work on the Careables platform the partners agreed to.
2020
Engagement strategy & documentation of events
In this deliverable we first describe how we plan to engage the different stakeholders with
the final aim to make them users of the careables services, namely co-design sessions and
the careables platform. This document has been elaborated in close collaboration with the
team responsible for project communication, dissemination and outreach.
2019
Annual Reports
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