Tenacity project – COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR A KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY

Tenacity is a project funded by the Erasmus Plus Program (KA2 action) and involves 9 partners from 7 different countries.
The project strives to define a model for engaging local and civic stakeholders in the academic third mission.

The academic Third Mission

“The Academic Third Mission includes a wide range of activities involving the generation, use, application and exploitation of knowledge together with other university capabilities outside the academic environment” (Tuunainen, 2005).

What is Tenacity?

The Tenacity project intends to answer some questions:
How may science live up to the ideals of democratic legitimacy at local level of policy making? How can the scientific community become more actively involved in sustainable development at local level?
The project aims to design and develop a set of models, resources and digital tools to improve and increase the relevance of the Academic Third Mission in the knowledge-based society.

AIM OF THE PROJECT

The aim of Tenacity project is to increase the staff competencies in the area of academic communities, namely civic education, public engagement, and social inclusion while taking into account different societal stakeholders like students, professors and citizens (adult citizens, citizens 60+, volunteers, immigrants, minorities, disadvantaged groups, public employees, etc.), through the implementation of academic deliberative arenas for open science and innovation, and the delivery of an e-learning platform for academic deliberative practitioners.

Deliberative democracy

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Public engagement

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Community service learning & innovation

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Citizen science

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Civic commitment

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