ALLINTERACT_D3.1 Report 3_v1.01
Creators: name: Flecha, Ramón
name: Soler, Marta
name: ALLINTERACT Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This dataset contains the data of the overall task of Report 3 of the ALLINTERACT project. This task is to create new knowledge about how to transform potential citizen participation in science into actual engagement in scientific research with social impact and on the other hand to discover new ways to engage societal actors in research, including young citizens (16-29 years old) and vulnerable groups that have traditionally been marginalized from science (e.g., low socioeconomic background, ethnic and religious minorities, women, LGBTQI). In order to achieve this twofold overall objective, six specific objectives were established. This report aims to respond to objective O3) to identify awareness-raising initiatives succeeding at engaging citizens in scientific participation, including the Open Access movement. This is done in the framework of two Sustainable Development Goals –Quality Education and Gender Equality – and with a mixed method approach. The methodology followed in this report is grounded on four data collection techniques: a literature review, analytics of social media, communicative focus groups and a survey. Regarding the first technique, the literature review aims to explore how citizens’ benefit from scientific research with a focus on gender and education. It has been conducted by retrieving articles published in top-ranked journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports and Scopus and the analysis includes the benefits regarding the social impact, the policy impact and the scientific impact. As for the analysis of social media, it includes the Social Media Analytics (SMA) which aims to collect interactions among users on diverse social networks and analyse this data quantitatively and qualitatively and the Social Media Communicative Observation (SMCO), which aims to explore the impact on citizens’ participation and awareness of introducing scientific evidences in social media interactions. Regarding SMA, it has followed a twofold strategy, including bottom-up and top-down approaches. It has been implemented on Twitter Facebook, Reddit and Instagram. The final sample has included a total of 5,647 messages. The SMCO has been conducted on Facebook and Reddit for 6 months and on the evidence-based platforms Sappho and Adhyayana for 15 months, with a total sample of 21,322 members. Third, ALLINTERACT consortium has implemented 12 Focus Groups (6 on gender/6 on education) with women, including youth and vulnerable women, LGBTI+ individuals, students, parents and teachers in Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Finland, Portugal and the Netherlands. These FG collected the voices of society regarding the benefits of scientific research. Finally, a survey has been conducted with 7507 participants from 13 European countries (with a balanced number of EU members, considering their relative size and geographical area) in order collect quantitative data about how citizens’ benefit from scientific research and the impact of interactions with science. Funding: We acknowledge support of this work by the project <em>"ALLINTERACT Widening and diversifying citizen engagement in science</em>” (872396) from the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme. <br> <strong>- Description of data codes and definition of concepts used:</strong> <strong>LGBTQI</strong>: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex <strong>SMA:</strong> Social Media Analytics <strong>SMCO</strong>: Social Media Communicative Observation <strong>FG:</strong> Focus Group <strong>EU:</strong> European Union <br> <strong>- Description of the steps to be followed to process data:</strong> To process the data included in this folder: 1. In the description of this folder data that may be of interest are described. 2. Acess the report. 2. The described data are included in detail in the report. 3. Further information and results are contained in the report. 4. Reference the selected information with its corresponding reference. <br> <strong>- Explanation of possible relationship with other datasets:</strong> This dataset is related to the following folders of dataset which contain ALLINTERACT reports that are public and approved by the European Commission: ALLINTERACT_D1.2 Report 1_v1.01 ALLINTERACT_D2.1 Report 2_v1.01 ALLINTERACT_D4.2 Report 4_v1.01 ALLINTERACT_D4.1 Minutes from Workshop 1_v1.01 <br> <strong>- Contact information in case of doubts: </strong>allinteract@ub.edu