Training School on Stakeholder Interaction

13-15 Oct 2013 in Solsona, Spain

At the first Joint Meeting of FACESMAP in Sopron, Hungary, participants were experimenting with the idea of ‘travellab’. Travellab is a new name for the special kind of stakeholder interaction that we are developing in this COST Action. It refers to the joint learning processes arising from facilitated stakeholder interactions, during the Working Group meetings, and particularly during the field visits.

 

 

 

In Solsona, we drew on that experience and conducted a training school to develop our skills, competences and understanding of stakeholder interaction; i.e. to gain proficiency in knowing ‘who’ to involve in our research, ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘when’.

The training school was organised as an interactive workshop and it entailed the following components:

  • mutual learning from sharing of real life examples and practices
  • knowledge about methods, techniques and formats for stakeholder interaction in natural resource management
  • input from colleagues in neighbouring areas (sustainable land management) with thorough experience in and understanding of participatory research, stakeholder interaction and multi-stakeholder learning (Joris de Vente, Spain; Sandra Valente, Portugal)
  • meta-level discussions on issues of participatory research and transdisciplinarity in FACESMAP context

 

 

 

Presentations from training school lecturers find here: