IETI: Impact-oriented Public Engagement

IETI - Impact-oriented Public Engagement, hosted by the Public Engagement & Impact unit of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), aims to increase the quality and efficiency of the MfN's public engagement, thereby promoting its academic, societal, and environmental impact. The project is divided into three work packages: 1. Concepts & Contexts: Focuses on mapping stakeholders and public engagement (PE) initiatives while exploring relevant concepts and frameworks. 2. Impact Planning & Assessment: Explores how MfN understands, practices, and evaluates its institutional and social impact. The goal is to develop tools for institutional self-evaluation and to promote reflexivity within institutions. 3. Culture Change & Co-creation: Examines MfN researchers' motivations, barriers, and needs regarding PE, and explores effective integration of PE, participation, and societal needs into MfN's research, including ways to recognize and incentivize researchers’ involvement in PE. By the project’s end, IETI will produce research or practice outputs and recommendations to optimise MfN's culture change and impact. Write to us (ieti@mfn.berlin) if you would like to get in touch. IETI is funded by the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt.