Environmental Social Science Group
ESSRG is a non-profit company cultivating cross-boundary research in a transdisciplinary fashion, engaging in multi-actor democratic dialogue with natural and social sciences, and other knowledge systems.
They nourish a collaborative and cooperative research approach, involving various communities and stakeholder groups while paying attention to those typically marginalized or unheard voices, thus striving toward social justice and ecological sustainability.
ESSRG believes in opening up the established knowledge creation systems toward various forms of co-creation, including Participatory Action Research (PAR), Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), and citizen science, thus enhancing society’s capacity for transformative learning.
ESSRG is committed to promoting collaborative learning efforts and initiates transparent, inclusive and reflexive research and innovation processes of participative problem definition, analysis, and working with citizens, policy-makers, and researchers toward mutually desirable outcomes. To make collaborative research and innovation efforts more effective, an inclusive service is needed that will support process facilitation among diverse actors willing to cooperate on transforming the research and innovation system into a responsible one.
Role in the project:
ESSRG will lead the Hungarian Living Lab, supporting the innovative WiseFood application ecosystem during the development phase with a comprehensive co-creation approach, and the testing and evaluation phase with a single-arm cohort study.