Diedrich Sandbox

Methodical Competences

Participants should demonstrate a solid mastery of the ability to:

• Acquire relevant knowledge and information collaboratively.

• Evaluate, analyze, synthesize and process this information, with an awarenesses of diversity.

• Independently design a creative working process in a target-oriented manner.

• Transfer knowledge and methods in the field of public participation to new and unfamiliar contexts.

• Apply project management and team building methods.

• Communicate results to different types of audiences (subject-specific and general public) using both analog and ICT-based means of communication.

• Reflect on and assess the impact of their work in creative and unconventional ways.

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the role of evaluating results and impact measurements.

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the methods applied to evaluation of democratic landscape processes.

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the difference between short-term results and long-term impacts.

• Design a peer-evaluation process at the start of an activity both from his/her personal perspective and the goals of the process/project/intervention.

• Select and justify a method for quantitative or qualitative evaluation, with a set of criteria that is tailored to the main goals of the activity.

• Draw up an action plan for the evaluation.

• Monitor a democratic process, reflect on it and adapt it when necessary.

• Organise feedback from observers (outsiders, peers) and activity participants (users, stakeholders, target groups) in a way that is suited to them and include this in the collaborative evaluation.

Subject-specific competences will be enhanced by (online) lectures, literature study, case study work and self-study of learning materials.

Social/personal and methodical competences will primarily be enhanced by group work, collaborative research, design thinking, workshops, presentations and other inquiry-based / interactive learning methods.