RISE (Engaged Research in the Social Economy) is a new Erasmus+ project that aims to build the skills of social economy organisations to partner in projects with research institutes. The objective is to encourage more Engaged Research projects, a practice that creates socially impactful initiatives through active collaboration between researchers and communities. The project is led by a consortium of four partners, including The Wheel (project coordinators, Ireland), Diesis Network (Belgium), European Citizen Science Association ECSA (Germany), and Science for Change (Spain).  

In order to overcome the identified gaps and barriers, RISE is currently developing a practical capacity-building training programme in order to make Social Economy Organisations “research-ready”.