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Cocreative formats, processes, and projects are diverse. Common to all of them is that they cover various types of expertise and involve people from academia as well as from nonuniversity contexts in research. These include:

• cocreatively generating knowledge via citizen science
• broadening range of activities through cocreative governance
• cocreative actor centricity—developing solutions together
• open collaboration—mastering cocreative complexity.

Universität Hamburg engages itself in many ways with, for example, funding programs, mentor recruitment, alumni work, and project-based cooperation with socially relevant organizations. Some activities include:

• the Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship)
• the mentoring program
• cooperation with #UHHengagiert
• public engagement.

CEC events and activities regularly bring together people from all areas of society and are always formative. For example, they give rise to unexpected research questions, concrete prototypes, applications, or development plans. Well-conceived formats and methods inspire participants to move beyond exchange and get involved together.

At the CEC, we work project- and activity-based with many people from all areas of society and we are members of a variety of networks. Then there are diverse funding providers, for example, within the scope of the Deutschlandstipendium.

We coordinate or get involved ourselves in cocreative projects in which scientists and scholars and people from other areas of society share their knowledge. This fosters synergies beyond disciplines and networks. Would you like to realize a cocreative project or activities? You can find ideas from the Co-Creation and Engagement Center in the Knowledge Exchange Agency at Universität Hamburg:

• JUPITER-CAMPUS 2023: open campus for innovative and cocreative formats
• Dialogforum: socially relevant questions with local links in the context of neighborhoods

Our support is based on longstanding experience with inter- and transdisciplinary projects at the junction of academia, politics, the corporate sector, and society at large. Together with you, we develop concepts and promote collaborative inter- and transdisciplinary reflection on the roles and responsibilities of academia with regard to social change. Contact us!