The session will start with a short talk on the potentials of co-creation in university teaching, before guiding the participants through five steps. Each step starts with an example from my own experimentation with co-creation, conducted with Marianne Achiam at The Department of Science Education in 2021-22, where we fundamentally changed our MA-course on science communication. The short examples are meant to illustrate the potentials and pitfalls imbedded in the different steps of co-creation in university teaching. Finally at each step, the participants are led through a reflection regarding their own potential co-creation process.

The five steps focus on the following:

1. Does it make sense to co-create?
Regarding your topic/methods? Your students? The teachers involved?

2. What parts of the scientific process do you want to co-create?
Using Bonney et al.’s (2009) definition of the scientific process; at which steps in the scientific process would you like to include the students?

3. How to practically co-create?
Do you need special equipment? Other participants than the students? What about GDPR?

4. When and to whom do you need to communicate the process?
Keeping everyone in the loop is essential for a successful co-created project, but it takes time and effort. We look at especially important impact points.

5. Do you want to publish?
If you want to publish your research in the end, it is important to make the line of authorships clear for everyone involved and to make a clear co-writing strategy.

By going over these steps, the participants will have a list of notes on how to start experimenting with co-creation themselves at the end of the workshop.