Research that listens,
before it concludes.

Participio is an independent practice that unites experts in participatory research, community engagement, and the design of knowledge that holds up in the places it claims to describe.

Participation · Inclusion · Co-design · Deliberation · Community engagement · Listening · Trust · Belonging · Plurality · Voice · Dialogue · Equity · Care · 
01Methods

Four ways we work alongside partners.

We don't deliver findings to communities. We develop them with the people who hold the questions. Each engagement is built around a method, a public, and a use.

a / Listen

Deliberative inquiry

Citizens' panels, deep-listening interviews, and structured dialogue formats designed to surface what gets missed in conventional consultation.

b / Co-design

Method development

Participatory tools, scenario workshops, and field protocols developed together with researchers, civil society, and local government.

c / Translate

Communication & dissemination

Work-package leadership for EU-funded projects: from messaging and identity, through reports and toolkits, to event design and stakeholder reach.

d / Evaluate

Reflexive evaluation

Independent assessment of participatory processes — what worked, for whom, and what kind of knowledge it produced. Designed to be useful, not performative.

02Focus areas

Where the work tends to land.

Four overlapping fields where participatory methods change what is actually known and what gets done about it.

i.

Adapting cities

LIVING LABS | CLIMATE ASSEMBLIES | URBAN SCENARIOS
ii.

Living memory

MEMORYSCAPES | LIVING ARCHIVES | MINORITY HERITAGE
iii.

Opening science

CITIZEN SCIENCE | OPEN PROTOCOLS | COLLECTIVE DATA
iv.

Defending truth

TRUST REPAIR | CLIMATE MISINFORMATION | CIVIC RESILIENCE
03Selected work

Recent collaborations.

A subset of recent engagements with universities, municipalities, and EU consortia. 

Participatory workshop with residents and planners
As part ofCLIMAS

Vilnius Futures Lab

Co-facilitated a future scenario building workshop in Vilnius Aukštamiestis Living Lab bringing residents, researchers, and local actors together to build climate adaptation scenarios for the city. Contributed to workshop design, scenario synthesis, and the translation of community-generated futures into research and policy inputs for the CLIMAS (Horizon Europe) consortium.
Reading group in a heritage interior
As part ofDIGICHer

Whose Heritage Counts

Designed and ran participatory workshops with heritage practitioners and minority community voices, exploring how digitisation decisions are made and whose heritage gets visibility. Contributed to qualitative analysis and to the monitoring methodology shaping the DIGICHer (Horizon Europe) project's approach to inclusive digital heritage.
Multi-stakeholder workshop on co-creation methods
As part ofINFODEMIJA

Trust, Tested

Co-developed a public-facing website on science communication and ran focus groups examining public trust in science: where it holds, where it erodes, and what rebuilds it. Contributed to research design, qualitative analysis, and the integration of findings into a science communication strategy playbook for Lithuanian audiences.
04The team behind Participio

Experience our team brings.

Participio is a new practice, but the people behind it are not. The figures below reflect the combined track record our team members carry from prior roles at universities, research consortia, and partner organisations.

20+ EU projects led or co-led by team members
1,400+ Citizens engaged across team members' work
10+ Countries of fieldwork experience
50+ Publications & reports authored by the team
05Contact

Building a proposal that needs real participation?

For consortia in development, methods commissions, evaluations, or just an exploratory call - write to us. We work with consortia as a participatory methods partner, communication & dissemination partner or critical friend, particularly for calls in climate, heritage, citizen science, and democratic resilience.

Contact us: info@participio.eu