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Godzilla at 70: Time for Kaijū Studies

This article contextualises the history of kaijū scholarship and looks particularly at the swell of publishing that has emerged in the last decade. It argues that the release of a series of new Godzilla films has led to a greater focus on the kaijū film, but that there is recurrence of critical themes that have persisted throughout scholarship on giant monster movies since the 1960s. This provides a literature review to understand how kaijū media has been critiqued, defined and challenged in response to the near three-quarter century history of kaijū cinema to consider if studies of the kaijū media provide the impetus to look at the kaijū as deserving of its own field of study. If zombie studies and vampire studies can occupy their own emerging fields of study, why not the kaijū? If the figure of the kaijū asks the biggest questions of our cultures, then do the giant monsters not deserve their own field? But, if this is an emerging field of study, the article poses, it needs to be more than kaijū film studies.

Decolonizing Ourselves

AbstractThis article outlines some key steps and motifs for developing a decolonial relational ethics that will be vital not just to the work of decolonization but also to the practice of the ecumenical movement if it is to both add its weight to the calls for decolonization and itself be decolonized. The author interrogates key dimensions of her own field of study in Christian ethics and engagement in the ecumenical movement. She highlights some of the key spaces and often marginalized communities and persons who can shape the ecumenical movement's further engagement in decolonization. It offers a critique and a vision rooted in the author's lived experience and the scholarship of decolonization while seeking application in methodologies for colonial systems, relationships and mindsets to be challenged and reset.

The Dialectical Questions: Erotemata dialectices, by Philip Melanchthon, trans. and with an introduction by Jeanne Fahnestock

The Dialectical Questions: Erotemata dialectices, by Philip Melanchthon, trans. and with an introduction by Jeanne Fahnestock

Mind the net! Unpacking the contributions of social network science for heritage and Bilingualism research

While heritage language (HL) research initially spun off the larger field of first and second language acquisition, it soon became its own field of study. The last two decades have seen an increase in the depth and breadth of HL research, yet due to its relationship to the larger field of language acquisition, it has long relied on the methodologies and paradigms of this research area. Current advances in the field of bilingualism suggest that alternative methods could help answer specific HL research questions by identifying the multiplicity of profiles that encompass HL speakers. This manuscript examines the use of Personal Social Network Science for the field of HL bilingualism and outlines ways in which this methodology can help answer questions about the variability in the speakers’ backgrounds and experiences and how they relate to linguistic outcomes.

Mapping Manuel Sandoval Vallarta (1899-1977) Scientific Contribution.

This paper employs network theory, mining data and bibliometric analysis when mapping the scientific contribution of Nobel Prize candidate; Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, the first and most renowned Mexican physicist and important figure in Latin American science. Vallarta died in 1977, and the existing literature is about his life and contributions to science but not about how those are still valuable today. This paper is the first to highlight, with mapping tools, that his contributions are relevant to the international community of cosmic rays (as he was pioneer and leader), quantum mechanics and relativity. These tools delivered three findings: Identify how he built his own field of study, same as universal knowledge. Unveil that the backward and forward Vallarta citations follow a scale-free network distribution. Determine social factors that benefited or affected his scientific activities—such as World War II interrupting Vallarta’s successful productivity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Furthermore, this study confirmed the interdisciplinary nature of the mapping studies of the scientist's contributions using scientometric tools. As a result, several interesting questions arose throughout our research, some of which were answered from the history and philosophy of science. However, others need to be analyzed by experts in the fields of Vallarta. Mapping research sends an invitation to interdisciplinary dialogue/research between experts in different areas of study to better understand the process of knowledge production both, individual and collective.

The new Unimore interdisciplinary teaching on transversal sustainability skills

The global situation of the Covid-19 pandemic has changed several aspects of University life and management. In this context, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore) has introduced a new course for all of its students called "Transversal Skills on Sustainability". This course consists of 13 Modules offered by the various Unimore Departments to address the issue of Sustainability at 360 degrees. Each Department offers a thematic module concerning Sustainability in its own field of study and research. The course ranges from engineering issues with renewable energy, waste, air quality, to economics and sustainable finance. In addition, the course deals with issues related to sustainability in the medical, chemical and legal fields and many others. In this first year of delivery, this teaching has proven to be highly appreciated among students. Over 950 students have enrolled in teaching for the 2020/2021 academic year. Enrolled students come from all areas of the university: there are students of engineering, geology, economics, chemistry, but also of medicine, pharmacy, and many others.Keyword: Education, Sustainability, Multidisciplinary, global approach

Technology as Integral to a New Paradigm of Adult Education

Technology and adult education are often discussed as two separate subjects yet just as it is impossible to live one day without the impact of technology, it is impossible to discuss adult education without considering technology. In the decades since the emergence of adult education as its own field of study and research, these two subjects have experienced substantial growth. However, in recent months, societal issues have forced the pace of this growth into unprecedented and sometimes uncomfortable expansion. The theorists and practitioners who have always been instrumental in moving the fields along were challenged to develop an entirely new paradigm. The issues and reactions will be considered in this article as the foundation for a paradigm shift in adult education. Since effective adult education involves not only information dissemination but communication and collaboration among its participants, online learning activities and entire online courses influence how we view the field itself.

“Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)”: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines

Abstract The interpretation of documents holds together the center of Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines (2003). Presented as time-stamped vignettes detailing the life of laborers at a vineyard for an university assignment, the novel throws into question the distance between the experiences the characters have and those accessible to Leonardo, the ethnographer-in-training. In Crossing Vines, queer migrant characters such as Aníbal and Moreno develop a narrative agency over access to details that the government or ethnographer might solicit in these narrative gaps. Analyzing González’s use of character’s institutional and personal archives, such as Permanent Resident Cards/green cards, photographs, and Leonardo’s ethnography, I argue that despite offering competing narratives about migrant life, these documents methodologically limit how queer migrants are textually represented and interpreted. Crossing Vines critiques the institutional processes by which migrant stories are gathered, interpreted, and violently cross-examined to foreground the blurred lines between studying and surveilling migrant communities. Whereas Leonardo’s project and the inspection of green cards puts pressure on the migrants in the novel to disclose information to produce or cross-reference an institutional archive, González asks us to put the limitations of the documents under scrutiny. In representing what these archives cannot, Crossing Vines makes a case for the utility and centrality of fiction in attending to the often intentional oversights of institutional archives, including those in our own fields of study.

Bricks without Mortar: Looking at Lists

Bricks without Mortar:Looking at Lists Natalie Dohrmann Hair Dye Wet Cat food Bra, tights Vodka So reads a crumpled scrap of paper found in a gutter in Bologna and reproduced in large scale by conceptual artist Angela Lorenz. The note is nothing really, a discarded shopping list. Yet it is also a short story, a haiku, the opening scene in a film—or is it the closing scene? A world is eager to spin out from it, and after it is rescaled, reproduced, and displayed in a Bolognese gallery, the demand for meaning exerted by the scribbled words becomes even more insistent. As they do our own desks or our minds at 3 a.m., lists litter the archives of Jewish history. They appear in court documents and wills, all over the Bible and rabbinic literature, in the margins of literary works, as indices and tables of contents, as genealogies, containing the names of donors, in recipes, and bills of lading. They are utilitarian and ubiquitous, and perhaps for this reason, the list can be the fly-over country within a longer prose document, signaling that the text we are reading is about to get monotonous and the energy of the narrative about to deflate. But pause a minute, and the list will begin to stir. This JQR forum maps a range of ways that the list itself is an assertive literary genre, whose formal elements stake their own claims to the meaning of items enumerated. It may not be an accident that J. Z. Smith grants Judaism the honor of revealing the meaning-generating potential of list-ness that he sees as central to the dynamic experience of the sacred itself. Smith argues that the list contains the Ur-logic of scriptures—a canon is, after all, a list. A closed canon loosens the contents from the constraints of syntax—each of its several parts gaining the resonance of the whole, a transformation that unleashes the recombinant collaging of midrash and the creative profusion of gematria. Daniel Lord Smail observes that lists lack verbs, rendering their elements at first glance as akin to a pile of bricks without mortar. [End Page 335] Our forum shows that a lack of verbs poses no impediment to the form's semantic potential and vigor. On the contrary, it's an accelerant. _____ The scholars in this forum were invited to choose a list from their own field of study, then reproduce it and bring their distinctive lenses to its analysis, paying special attention to the form itself. Many lists are engendered by rupture (one rarely inventories one's property unless that property is in jeopardy or in transition) and, so, mark the joins in time. Others do the epistemological work of classification. Still others do things that are wholly unexpected, like the list you'll read that authorizes a religious performance. Joshua Teplitsky begins with a simple ledger recording the names of Jews who worked to manage a plague outbreak in Prague in 1713. Much can be learned about the Jewish community not only by parsing the list's ordering and implicit valuations, but also by assessing the meaning of its commissioning by and storage in the Bohemian Chancery of the Habsburg Monarchy. Leora Auslander quickens the ghosts in two Holocaust documents, one a ghoulish onomasticon of Jews deported from France to Auschwitz in 1944, the other an inventory of the confiscated furniture belonging to a family that was among those same deportees. She distinguishes the list from the inventory, which, unlike the spare column of names, holds in its weft traces of full humans who once built lives and families and futures. Dina Danon looks at a happier inventory: the contents of the trousseau of a late nineteenth-century Jewish Ottoman bride. Her modest catalog of jackets and undergarments freezes a moment of a world in flux and, in Danon's reading, serves as an unexpected check on grand narratives of Jewish modernity. Daniel Lord Smail's exemplum is a fourteenth-century court inventory of the moveable property of a recently deceased Jewish householder. Uncovering the document's organizing principle affords him an insight into medieval home economics that...

Prediction of Monophyletic Groups Based on Gene Order and Sequence Similarity in Organelle DNA

Organelle genomics has become its own field of study. Much information can be gleaned from the study of cell organelles. The differences in the genomes of organelles, such as the mitochondrion and the chloroplast are amenable to phylogenetic and cladistic studies. These differences include the genome sequence, GC%, genome length and gene order. The conserved nature of the organelle genomes and the gene inventory of both mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes also make this easier to accomplish. This paper includes a review of existing organelle genome software. These include gene annotation and genome visualization tools as well as organelle gene databases for both mitochondrion and plastid. A new R tool, available on github, called “Organelle DNA Lineages”, or ODL, was written to compare and classify organelle genomes based on their genome sequence and gene order. The software was run on the mitochondrial genomes of a set of 51 cephalopod species, delineating ten separate monophyletic groups, including argonauts, nautiluses, octopuses, cuttlefish, and six squid groups. This new tool can help enrich and expand the field of organelle genomics.

Incorporating Cyber Principles into Middle and High School Curriculum

Although many practicing teachers have not experienced teacher preparation programs that teach cyber security (Pusely & Sadera, 2011) or are familiar with cyber principles (Author), embedding these ideas into instruction in a variety of content areas is essential for promoting cyber literacy and citizenship. This study explores a professional development program that provided middle and high school teachers across disciplines with opportunities to explore, first as learners and then as educators, cyber citizenship and programming concepts with explicit connections to the cybersecurity principles and concepts. Participating teachers experienced inquiry-based learning, focused classroom discourse, and collaborative learning that centered on GenCyber Cybersecurity First Principles and GenCyber Cybersecurity Concepts (GenCyber, 2019). Results indicated the professional development enabled teachers to iteratively reflect on best practices in cyber education while learning and applying the content of GenCyber Principles within the context of their own field of study.

Staging FairyLand: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime by Jennifer Schacker

Reviewed by: Staging FairyLand: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime by Jennifer Schacker Heather Sanford (bio) Staging FairyLand: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, by Jennifer Schacker. Wayne State UP, 2018. As Jennifer Schacker notes in the introduction to Staging FairyLand: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, fairy-tale and folklore scholars have limited their own field of study in the implicit privileging of textual records (7-8). Defaulting to textual transcriptions has "become so naturalized that they can be taken for granted," even though these stories have roots in multiple forms, many of them nontextual (7). In particular, Schacker identifies a period at the turn of the nineteenth century in which England's cultural interest in fairy tales strayed so far from textual forms that scholars often regard this as "a period of remarkable inactivity in the history of the [End Page 275] fairy tale" (58). The thesis of this project is to demonstrate that fairy tales did not drop out of the cultural dialogue during this period; rather, they were simply being adapted into other, nontextual forms. Focusing on fairy-tale pantomime as just one of the forms of adaptation that have been largely ignored or discounted by folklorists given its nontextual nature, Schacker's work demonstrates how the study of fairy-tale adaptations can reveal new layers of understanding not just of the tales themselves but also of the cultures in which they are produced. In doing so, Schacker suggests an interdisciplinary and multimodal methodology of fairy-tale and folklore studies. In the introduction to the book, Schacker provides context regarding the intertwining history of fairy tales and pantomime, specifically focusing on the evolution of pantomime as a storytelling tradition in nineteenth-century England during the Theatre Licensing Act enacted in 1737. She argues for the importance of merging adaptation studies and folklore studies in order to understand fairy tales in their fullest cultural context. Underscoring the need for this book, Schacker notes a gap in the existing literature regarding attention to pantomimes as adaptations of fairy tales, despite their potential to influence "our thinking about fairy tales" in terms of "their bearing on questions of identity and sociability, genre and ideology, and also their signifying possibilities, past, present, and future" (22). The first chapter, titled "Intermedial Magic: Text, Performance, Materiality" is organized into four sections, beginning with an introduction and then given the subtitles "The Theatricality of 'Fairy Tale,'" "Fairy-Tale Theater across Borders," and "Dressing the Part." Breaking her chapters down in this way, a model which she repeats in each chapter, is particularly helpful in chunking the wealth of information she presents. Schacker begins this chapter by highlighting the intertextual, culturally and historically situated nature of fairy tales and their various adaptations. She notes the obstacles that have prevented research on the connection between fairy tales and pantomime, specifically the lack of dialogue between folklore theorists and performance theorists (26), the difficulty in tracing these storytelling practices as they have migrated across cultures and mediums (25), and the double-stigma against both fairy tales and pantomime as illegitimate or lowbrow art forms (25). Pressing forward despite these challenges, Schacker provides cultural and historical context for the marriage of fairy tale and pantomime, particularly focusing on eighteenth-century England. As Schacker explains, under the Theatre Licensing Act, pantomime [End Page 276] theaters during this time were limited in the types of storytelling in which they could engage without committing copyright infringement. To get around this, these theaters would rely on the conventions of the harlequinade opening sequence to set up a story and then use visual elements such as costuming to communicate to the audience which popular story (typically a fairy tale) it was adapting (28). This type of story structure lent itself to "topical humor and slapstick comedy" and provided a unique platform for social commentary, thus further underscoring the significance of Schacker's research. The subsequent subsections of the chapter support these introductory claims primarily by establishing the medium's transnational roots, especially in the Italian practice of commedia dell'arte; by establishing and analyzing the medium's popularity across classes; and by illustrating how the costuming...

Accuracy Invoked Course Recommender System using Collaborative Filtering

It is always important that the student should choose the right course. The decision of taking the right course is very important as the student’s future depends on the course they opt to study. Most of the students are not much aware of the courses that are available in their own field of study. Selecting wrong courses might be due to the mismatch between the student’s aptitude, training and mental ability. Thus, the idea is to develop a system for helping the students to choose a course which would be best suited for him/her based on features like previous student selection, interest, languages known etc. Existing research has explored recommender system using content-based filtering but it can only do limited content analysis and the recommendation will not be precise at the end. An attempt is made to improve the performance of this system using Collaborative based filtering techniques which will recommend a ranked list of courses. Under Collaborative filtering techniques, user based collaborative filtering and item based collaborative filtering is used. Sample student datasets from Kaggle, has been used to test the performance of our system.

Dialogue and Destabilization: An Index for Comparative Global Exemplarity

This reflection derives from a discussion that took place at the 2018 “Comparative Hagiology” pre-conference workshop of the American Academy of Religion. The goal during that meeting was to articulate points of dialogue for the comparison of exemplary figures in various historic, geographic, and faith traditions. Here, I offer an open-ended descriptive index as a heuristic device for beginning a comparative study, whether collaborative or single-authored. After positioning my inquiry from within my own field of study, medieval European Christianity, I offer a brief “test case” for the portability of the index by using its terms to think through a text that is widely-regarded within my subfield as deeply complicated and difficult to interpret, the Life of Christina Mirabilis. I conclude by re-describing some of the terms of the index and by inviting further re-description.

Special Issue of Electroanalysis Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Emil Paleček

This Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Emil Paleček, world-recognized biochemist and electrochemist, discoverer of polarographic activity of nucleic acids and founder of nucleic acid electrochemistry as a specific research area. Emil was one of the great persons the presence of whom in our lives constitutes a reassuring aspect and we often cannot imagine that it could change and that they were not there. His sudden decease on October 30, 2018, less than a month after his 88th birthday, was thus shocking for everyone who had the chance to know him and the empty space he left behind will never be filled. Prof. Emil Paleček (Photo by Alois Kozubík) Emil Paleček (EP) was connected for his whole work life with the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. He ranked among the most recognized Czech scientists and his impact on development of science in the fields of electrochemistry and structure of nucleic acids, proteins and other biomolecules was truly enormous. Owing to EP's interest in a wide spectrum of fields reaching far beyond his own field of study, he was able to establish a laboratory with broad interdisciplinary background. EP stood up for his thoughts and new discoveries despite the deep-rooted dogmas, which could be – in a positive sense – viewed as stubbornness but, as it proved multiple times during his career, his endurance and work commitment enabled him to accomplish his goals. Absolutely deservedly, he was awarded various prizes, for example the Giulio Millazzo Prize from the Bioelectrochemical Society in 2011, the most prestigious Czech award Česká hlava (“Czech Head”) in 2014 or award of the Neuron Benevolent Fund in 2017. As a tribute to Emil, we have organized this Special Issue to collect a selection of papers covering topics to which EP contributed significantly during his long, fruitful scientific life. Most of authors of the contributions knew Emil Paleček personally, some of them used to be his doctoral students, colleagues working for short or longer time in his Brno laboratory or hosted him at their institutions, or just were meeting him frequently at international conferences. As editors of this SI, we would like to express our gratitude to all authors for their great effort to contribute with the results of their research, and all referees for their valuable comments that helped to improve the quality of the manuscripts. While reading the articles, or just leafing through this Special Issue, please, give a remembrance to renowned scientist and great person, Professor Emil Paleček.

Impact! II

Impact! II

Graduates’ skills and employability: the view of students from different European countries

Purpose In the last decade, graduates’ employability has assumed a central role in scholars’ concerns. This was mainly due the high rate of recent graduates’ unemployment in some European countries, as well as the Bologna Process reform of the European higher education system and the new Europe Strategy 2020. The purpose of this paper, driven by the increasing need to improve graduates’ skills and employability, is to identify a set of skills that students consider important to achieve success in their own field of study and another set of skills, which they perceive to lack the most. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the main goal of this study, based on the methodology supported by literature review, a questionnaire was applied to students from five different European universities. Findings The main results allowed the authors to infer that, on the one hand, the European students of the universities included in the study consider communication, thinking and interpersonal skills as the most important skills to get a job in their own field of study; and on the other hand, personal, interpersonal and entrepreneurial skills are the skills lacked by students. These set of skills are quite similar and even overlapping, which makes this a significant inference that needs to be accounted by higher education institutions (HEIs). Originality/value In the research carried out in this study, with the students of five different European universities affected by the economic crisis of 2007/2008, the needed skills perceived by students to obtain employment in their own field of study were identified, along with the skills which they perceived to lack the most. The obtained findings contribute to shed light on the important issue of supporting HEIs regarding the skills that should be imparted in the curricula of their courses and workshops, in order to help the students to succeed in the current and potential competitive labour market.

What is phenomenology of religion? (Part I): The study of religious phenomena

AbstractPhenomenology of religion can refer to three distinct groups of phenomenological projects reflecting on religion. The term is used in the field of religious studies to designate the search for patterns of religious experiences or practices across traditions and to the methodology that shows religion to be a unique human experience deserving its own field of study. Philosophical phenomenology in the Husserlian tradition also engages religious questions at times. Finally, there is a group of contemporary French philosophers who advocate a phenomenology of religious experience. The first two groups are examined in this article and the third in the sequel. For the first group, the article briefly considers the projects of Rudolf Otto, Mircea Eliade, Brede Kristensen, and Gerardus van der Leeuw, as well as their contemporary interpreters in the field of religious studies. As representative of the second approach, the article considers Max Scheler, Edith Stein, and Gerda Walther as well as commenting briefly on the contemporary work of Natalie Depraz and Anthony Steinbock.

Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian ed. by Jeffrey S. Gurock

Reviewed by: Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian ed. by Jeffrey S. Gurock Leslie Woodcock Tentler Conversations with Colleagues: On Becoming an American Jewish Historian. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. 270 pp. This is a most unusual book, for which I am a most unusual reviewer. The sixteen essays that make up Conversations with Colleagues are scholarly autobiographies, as much personal as intellectual in content. "The personal always fuels and impacts what drives our work," as Shuly Rubin Schwartz explains in the course of her contribution (196). As for me, I am a historian of American Catholicism, only partly familiar with the work of the scholars who are featured in this thoughtful volume. What could possibly justify my reviewer's role? Only this, perhaps: that the trajectory of American Jewish history over the past century has been strikingly similar to that of American Catholic history. Scholars in these [End Page 557] two seemingly disparate fields also face a similar dilemma as they look to the future. Practitioners in both fields of study would presumably benefit from mutual exchange. Like the field of American Jewish history, American Catholic history prior to the mid-twentieth century was largely the province of well-intentioned amateurs. The overriding concern in both cases was to shore up the bonds of community—a multi-ethnic community, in both instances—and to establish the American bona fides of the group in question. The question of how to be simultaneously both American and Jewish is the fundamental question, as Jonathan D. Sarna notes in his essay; the same could be said of Catholics. The late 1940s saw the advent in both fields of study of a new generation of professional historians—small in number, to be sure, but often distinguished in their output. They frequently served as mentors to a rising generation of graduate students who ultimately transformed both fields in the 1970s and after, due both to their numbers and generous sense of who mattered as historical actors. Women appeared on the social-historical stage, along with ethnic and racial and, more tentatively, sexual minorities. A new emphasis on quantification opened up important insights into the demographic past. The explosion of creative scholarship in both fields did not attract much attention from the larger American historical enterprise. As late as 1995, Deborah Dash Moore could deliver a conference paper decrying the continued marginality of American Jewish history to the American historical profession and indeed to Judaic studies, as well. I had published an article just two years earlier called "On the Margins: The State of American Catholic History." The accumulation of solid historical work and growing numbers of graduate student acolytes did eventually make a difference. Both fields now enjoy what might be called prosperity, although that state is more robust for historians of American Judaism. Catholic and Jewish studies programs and endowed chairs in both fields have proliferated over the past two decades, even at secular universities. "I struggled to win recognition from Vassar's history department as an American Jewish historian," Moore remembers of her early days in that college's Department of Religion, back in the 1970s (123). She now holds a named chair of Jewish history at the University of Michigan. The frustrations engendered by the years of marginality linger in some of the essays, perhaps especially those by women, who fought for acceptance on two fronts. Historians of women, who struggled for recognition in the profession at large, have often been reluctant to incorporate Jewish women into their liberationist narrative, from which Catholic women have also been excluded. But the essays mainly speak of success—success both in personal terms and in terms of the field these [End Page 558] scholars have done so much to transform. Many practitioners in my own field of study could tell a similar story. But therein lurks a certain danger. Both Catholics and Jews, after all, are part of a larger American narrative and even a transnational one, given the global connections of both communities. Making those connections is not easy, even for historians who are broadly trained. Might it not be the case that the more our...

User Participation in Coproduction of Health Innovation: Proposal for a Synergy Project.

BackgroundThis project concerns advancing knowledge, methods, and logic for user participation in coproduction of health innovations. Such advancement is vital for several reasons. From a user perspective, participation in coproduction provides an opportunity to gain real influence over goal definition, design, and implementation of health innovations, ensuring that the solution developed solves real problems in right ways. From a societal perspective, it’s a mean to improve the efficiency of health care and the implementation of the Patient Act. As for industry, frameworks and knowledge of coproduction offer tools to operate in a complex sector, with great potential for innovation of services and products.ObjectiveThe fundamental objective of this project is to advance knowledge and methods of how user participation in the coproduction of health innovations can be applied in order to benefit users, industry, and public sector.MethodsThis project is a synergy project, which means that the objective will be accomplished through collaboration and meta-analysis between three subprojects that address different user groups, apply different strategies to promote human health, and relate to different parts of the health sector. Furthermore, subprojects focus on distinctive stages in the spectrum of innovation, with the objective to generate knowledge of the innovation process as a whole. The project is organized around three work packages related to three challenges—coproduction, positioning, and realization. Each subproject is designed such that it has its own field of study with clearly identified objectives but also targets work packages to contribute to the project as a whole. The work on the work packages will use case methodology for data collection and analysis based on the subprojects as data sources. More concretely, logic of multiple case studies will be applied with each subproject representing a separate case which is similar to each other in its attention to user participation in coproduction, but different regarding, for example, context and target groups. At the synergy level, the framework methodology will be used to handle and analyze the vast amount of information generated within the subprojects.ResultsThe project period is from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2022.ConclusionsBy addressing the objective of this project, we will create new knowledge on how to manage challenges to health innovation associated with the coproduction process, the positioning of solutions, and realization.