Participatory processes and methodologies

We are a network made up of more than 100 people, dedicated to Social Education and Research in Latin America and Europe. 

In this fourth period of work together with CLACSO, we propose to deepen fields of study, reflection and action on the processes of social and citizen participation (instituting and instituted) seeking to improve our understanding of their trajectories of change, their challenges and the conditions for their democratic functioning in the Global South.

And, in addition, to explore the field of participatory methodologies, from our praxis.

In this way, we seek to guide our contributions in the co-generation of situated knowledge, based on critical reflection from Universities, public organizations and Civil Society. 

In this international articulation, we promote a diverse range of approaches to participatory processes and methodologies, enriching various theoretical currents and our territorial actions from critical thinking.
For its operation, in the period 2026-2028, we propose a flexible plan of self-managed activities, linked to:

• the production of knowledge (collective research and book production),

• dissemination of knowledge (from the Sentipensante Network Bulletin, the Higher Diploma in Participatory Perspectives and Methodologies for Democratic Deepening, we also plan to generate seminars and other content and means of disseminating our reflections)

• coordination with networks and organizations in the territories where we interact,

• organization of meetings and academic mobility and exchanges between members of the network.

Our actions seek to recover lessons learned along the lines of major lines of work:

• Theory and Practice

• Systematization of experiences

• Institutionalization of Participation

• Gender and Feminisms

• Education and Universities

• Ecology

• Care

Among other thematic areas, which we address from the great diversity of participatory processes and methodologies that are discussed in this working group.

Our conviction is that participation is an effective tool for transforming the societies in which we live.

We firmly believe that the sustainability of spaces like this international network and the dissemination and debate on participation requires being sustained with ethical and political conviction, in the current context, to guarantee the deepening of democratic values.

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[+] Work plan 2026-2028

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