A methodological partner
for European projects.
Eutopia is a cultural R&D lab based in Marche Region (Italy). In EU funded consortia we build and run knowledge translation methodologies, participatory methods and pilot actions. Three Creative Europe projects delivered or running. Available for Horizon Europe consortia.
Get in touch →Four roles, tested in the field.
We cover the work packages where the project meets its public: participation, engagement, knowledge transfer, dissemination. For each we bring a methodology tested across countries, released as open source, with documented results.
Knowledge translation methodologies
Our core work: methodologies that move specialist knowledge (research results, heritage, accessibility expertise) into use by concrete publics. Built on three pillars (domain truth, narrative translation, user experience), validated through real production with multi-country partners, released with their limits declared.
Knowledge transfer and capacity building
The HOP Methodology translates specialist knowledge (cultural heritage, archives, research) into products that reach people who did not know they wanted them. Canvas tools released under CC BY-SA 4.0, practical guides, workshops for museums, archives, municipalities and cultural networks.
Pilots and citizen engagement
We build and run pilot actions with the people the project is for: activists, municipalities, local communities, theatres, museum audiences. Currently piloting environmental education and civic participation on 40 historic sites in four countries.
Dissemination and exploitation
Podcasts, open source methodologies, downloadable canvases, training formats. Outputs designed to outlive the project and to be picked up and reused by other organisations, with the attribution trail to show it.
What we bring to a Horizon consortium.
Our field is knowledge translation: the discipline that Horizon proposals file under public engagement, science communication, co-creation and knowledge brokering. In a Horizon Europe consortium (Cluster 2 · Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society, or SSH integration in any cluster) Eutopia covers the work packages where research meets people: participatory pilots, stakeholder and citizen engagement, dissemination and exploitation, training. The tasks that turn an impact section into measurable results.
The approach is documented: our working paper Eutopians in the Middle (2026) describes the construction method behind our three methodologies, validated through real production with partners in nine countries and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. As a small, agile non profit we also strengthen the consortium’s balance: third sector, Southern Europe, direct access to local communities, lean administration.
Three Creative Europe projects. Open outputs for each.
HOP · History of People
How to turn a historical archive into something that interests people who did not know they wanted that story. Produced the HOP Methodology and Canvas, a podcast, and a practical guide, all released open source.
WWM · We Want More
Inclusion of persons with disabilities in the performing arts. Coordinated by Eutopia: six partners in six countries co-developed a participatory methodology through three iterations, released as the WWM toolkit and Canvas.
The Source · Guardians of the Source
Forty historic fountains as sites for environmental education and civic participation, with activists, municipalities and local communities in Italy, Spain, Croatia and Bulgaria. Eutopia leads the methodology co-creation WP.
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Four situations where we fit.
Between the people who produce knowledge
and the people who need it,
we build the passage.