Guidelines

This website provides you with guidance on involving representatives from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in research. It contains guidelines from the EU research project CONSIDER. See below for links to the specific guidelines, or you may be interested in more general reasons to involve civil society in research.

What should I do to improve the involvement of civil society in research?

In order to achieve more direct relevance these guidelines have been divided according to five key stakeholder groups:

Also see our note on distinguishing between these different stakeholder groups.

Further information

In addition to the guidelines themselves we have prepared a series of supporting summaries.

These texts are designed to provide further context and insights from the CONSIDER project.