ENTICE: D1.1 – Stakeholder engagement strategy

Delivering societally relevant and policy-actionable outcomes is a core objective of the ENTICE project. This document presents a stakeholder engagement strategy that is designed to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange between consortium partners and external actors in support of that objective. The primary scope of the stakeholder processes in ENTICE is to ensure the relevance of the project’s research and overall activities for policymaking, promote mutual understanding and trust between modellers and societal actors (including policymakers), and incorporate direct stakeholder input to ensure that the scientific process reflects real-world social and political dynamics. The stakeholder engagement plan builds on a “transdisciplinary listening mechanism”, which is intended to offer a structured approach to collaboration between project partners and external stakeholders. In ENTICE, stakeholders will be selected on an ad-hoc basis from a well-maintained, ethics-compliant database managed by ICCS and designated persons across the consortium. This database will draw on the established networks of all consortium partners. Engagement itself will remain flexible in nature and timing, meaning that several methods will support our stakeholder process—including bilateral interviews, workshops/focus group discussions, surveys/questionnaires, and/or public events. Together with project coordinators (E3M), ICCS will lead the implementation of the stakeholder engagement strategy, in close collaboration with all project partners. This process begins with the selection of appropriate stakeholders to populate the stakeholder database, collaborative development of a policy-relevant research agenda broken down into a series of themes that may serve different purposes and project objectives, and ad-hoc selection of stakeholders to invite in a series of online seminars corresponding to said themes.