2. Crossover – Methodology
The present Research Roadmap on Policy-Making 2.0 is developed with a sequential approach based on the existing research roadmap developed by the CROSSROAD project.
In the first phase of the project, up to M6, the consortium started a collection of literature, information about software tools and applications cases. The present document starts to summarize this information in order to update and expand the previous roadmap. In addition to this desk-based review, the document has benefited from the informal discussions being held on the Linkedin group of the project (Policy-making 2.0), where more than 200 practitioners and researchers are discussing the practices and the challenges of policy-making.
The present deliverable represents the start, rather than the end, of the project. The publication of the deliverable kicks off the engagement activities of the project, designed to provide further input and to improve the roadmap:
Outline of the Process
- As soon as it is released, the preliminary version of the roadmap will be published in commentable format on the project website http://www.CROSSOVER-project.eu/. Animators will stimulate discussion about it and generate comments by researchers and practitioners alike. This participatory process will help enriching the roadmap, which will be published in its final version after validation by the community/ies of practitioners and policy makers
- Two workshops organised by the project aimed at gathering input on the research challenges and feedback on the proposed roadmap
- An online survey, as well as a focus groups and meetings with practitioners from civil society and government will help to focus the roadmap on the actual needs
All the input provided by the online and offline activities will then be included n the final version of the research roadmap, to be released in M18.
In particular, the methodological approach integrates demand-driven needs and technology-push opportunities. It starts from spelling out the key challenges of policy-making 2.0 (based on review of literature and cases). When it then analyzes the research challenges, it highlights how each research challenges is likely to help meeting these needs. In fact, each research challenge in section 4 is deliberately linked to a policy-making need.