BETTER Life Toolkit
Supporting Socially Engaged Research
Taking different perspectives
A Boardgame for a better understanding of the advantages of collaboration
Promote your Research Communication
A user-friendly guidelines to assist researchers in promoting their findings
BL-SER Self-Reflection Tool
Understand your engaging potential to build bridges with society
ShinyR
Stakeholder-specific interactive web-based tool for data analyses, presentation and interpretation with the help of R shiny app
Visual Methodologies for Landscape Observatory
Use of visual arts in observing landscape, metaphoric presentation of research, developing narratives of scientific results, and collaboration with community
Design Thinking for the co-design of public open spaces
A practical guide for the use of the Design Thinking methods for emphasizing human-centred design principles
Empowering Growth Through Guided Connections
The mentoring plan is a framework for nurturing effective mentor-mentee relationships in scientific contexts across Europe and beyond.
Integrating Citizens' Perceptions of Urban Environmental Quality into Inclusive City Planning Processes
Guidelines to Support Interaction of Community, Science, and Governance
Human Ecosystem Integration LAB
BetterLife Connecting Life Science Ecosystems: Integration Beyond Limits.
What the tools can do for you
The tools have been designed to support early career researchers and those driving socially engaged research in universities
More specifically, they aim to provide the following benefits:
Upskilling
Tools that help you to acquire the knowledge, competencies and skills to promote/implement socially engaged research in life sciences
Making connections
Tools that help you to make connections with others interested in socially engaged research, may this be internal or external stakeholders.
Evaluation
Tools that help you to determine the status quo of socially engaged research, either on an individual or institutional level
