1. WP5 European Letter of Quality on Action-Research Favoring Territorial Governance of Sustainable Development. Annual Conference of Territorial Intelligence VALDOCCO Foundation- Huelva University (Spain) October, 24 th – 27 th 2006

6. CAENTI A-R Principles 1. Transformation: it is an implicit principle in the action-research concept; it consists in fostering the transformer role that research can perform on social reality. Social needs as a starting point. 2. Multidimensionality: focusing on research object by using a multidimensional and multi-sector well-balanced approach. 3. Partnership: fostering and involving territorial partnerships in the research-action processes. 4. Participation: ensuring territorial actors’ participation (those who directly face territorial problems) is carried out in an effective way.

7. CAENTI A-R Principles 5. Sustainability: it consists in carrying out long term action-research processes which are needed to obtain a more evolutionary knowledge in order to generate sustainable territorial development dynamics. 6. Transparency: the research-action processes must lead to a higher results transparency regarding both knowledge and policies, facilitating and democratizing the processes of decisions making. 7. Co-responsibility: the component “action” and the component “research” are equally responsible for the process evolution. 8. Co-learning: the research-action processes must facilitate the cooperative learning of all the participants, improving the ability of the territorial system to look for solutions to the future problems keeping in mind their anterior experience. In other words, they ought to strengthen the development of the territorial intelligence.

8. CAENTI A-R Principles How could we apply all these principles? Participation: Participation as an Action-Research key factor.

9. CAENTI A-R Principles But, What kind of participation is able to achieve quality?

11. Durable Collaborative Participation Quality How to construct this DCP?

12. WP5 European Letter of Quality on Action-Research Favoring Territorial Governance of Sustainable Development. Annual Conference of Territorial Intelligence VALDOCCO Foundation- Huelva University (Spain) October, 24 th – 27 th 2006