Mind - mapping 

 Challenge 

 Research should not be an end in itself . To move towards the future which we all aspire to , scientists need   to think about societal challanges and aim to address these . Yet , staying behind the close doors of   laboratories , they will not be able to understand what these societal needs are . Facilitating the   communication process between science and society is critical in order to make science adequate to people ’s   lives . To uncover citizens ’ needs and understand how to make science more responsive to these and how to   create the future we wish for , a number of European organisations conducted design workshops with   citizens . As part of these events citizens identified the current challenges they are facing and formulated   insights about how they would like their future to look like , as well as shared first thoughts on what is needed   to achieve that . The results of these workshops have been used to formulate research priorities which aimed   to inform future research programmes . 

 Selection 

 The method that has been chosen to address the above described challenge was a mind - mapping workshop .   We wanted to make citizens first think of WHAT IS and describe the issues they currently face in their lives .    This stage of the design thinking process has been incorporated into the mind - mapping workshop as we   wanted to understand citizens ’ real concerns and challenges rather than skew their opinion towards certain   issues that the organisers considered important . Based on the results of these discussions , citizens generated   ideas on what their desirable future will be . This methodology was developed in this way in order to : 

 1 ) give participants a chance to think about their own experience and formulate the way desirable future   looks like , according to their own perspective ; 

 2 ) allow citizens to share their thoughts with the rest , enrich their perspective through group discussions ; 

 3 ) identify the most pressing challanges for citizens thorugh the clustering of challanges made on the tables . 

 Application 

 The citizens taking part in this event were selected randomly , yet they as a group needed to cover a certain   number of criteria in order to ensure diversity in the panel . These included : gender , age , level of education   and occupation . We wanted to make sure that different perspectives are included in our analysis . 

 In the first stage of the workshop , participants sat together in small groups of 5 - 6 people . Each small group ’s   discussion was moderated by a table moderator , who made sure that each participant can express their   opinion and that the group progresses with the tasks . 

 First , participants were asked to think about challenges from their everyday lives . Then , they were asked to   look into these challenges from a broader perspective and think about societal challenges ( e.g. quality of   education , migration , technologies ’ influence on people ’s lives , etc . ) . At the end of this session , with the help   of table moderators groups clustered the challenges they identified with sticky notes on flipcharts . Groups   presented their results to the rest . This stage of the process allowed participants to build a common   understanding about major challenges of nowadays . 

 In the next stage of the process participants were asked to think about how they imagine the desirable future .   The participants had 30 minutes to walk around the room and browse through the groups ’ results and the   flipcharts they created . They were encouraged to take notes of what they consider important and insightful .   After that participants went back to the tables . They were asked to write down on sticky notes aspects of the   desirable future , i.e. visions for the future ( e.g. children go to schools where the needs of every child are   individually met ) . Then again themes were clustered on a flipchart to formulate broader categories . At the   end tables presented to the rest of the participants their results . 

 Insight 

 An interesting result from the workshops was that similar challenges and visions for the future emerged from   the different national workshops . This result evinced that the pressing challenges for the future people are   concerned with are rather of a global scale than nationally bound . This calls for more collaboration between   researchers across borders . 

 In regard to the design thinking methodology , an important insight was that to motivate citizens to actively   participate in the event , they need to understand well the purpose of the event and how the results they   produced will be used in the future . 

 Approach 

 The feedback of table facilitators was that in the beginning the participants found it difficult to think about   specific aspects of their everyday life they perceived as current challenge . In order to successfully apply the   methodology it was important that people think about their own experiences rather that formulate the   challenges they have heard in the media . Thus , in order to stimulate participants think about their own   experiences , a good approach might be to ask them write a short story about their everyday life before the   discussions in the first stage of the event commence . This will help participants think of specific challenges   they face . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Mind - mapping 

 Challenge 

 Research should not be an end in itself . To move towards the future which we all aspire to , scientists need   to think about societal challanges and aim to address these . Yet , staying behind the close doors of   laboratories , they will not be able to understand what these societal needs are . Facilitating the   communication process between science and society is critical in order to make science adequate to people ’s   lives . To uncover citizens ’ needs and understand how to make science more responsive to these and how to   create the future we wish for , a number of European organisations conducted design workshops with   citizens . As part of these events citizens identified the current challenges they are facing and formulated   insights about how they would like their future to look like , as well as shared first thoughts on what is needed   to achieve that . The results of these workshops have been used to formulate research priorities which aimed   to inform future research programmes . 

 Selection 

 The method that has been chosen to address the above described challenge was a mind - mapping workshop .   We wanted to make citizens first think of WHAT IS and describe the issues they currently face in their lives .    This stage of the design thinking process has been incorporated into the mind - mapping workshop as we   wanted to understand citizens ’ real concerns and challenges rather than skew their opinion towards certain   issues that the organisers considered important . Based on the results of these discussions , citizens generated   ideas on what their desirable future will be . This methodology was developed in this way in order to : 

 1 ) give participants a chance to think about their own experience and formulate the way desirable future   looks like , according to their own perspective ; 

 2 ) allow citizens to share their thoughts with the rest , enrich their perspective through group discussions ; 

 3 ) identify the most pressing challanges for citizens thorugh the clustering of challanges made on the tables . 

 Application 

 The citizens taking part in this event were selected randomly , yet they as a group needed to cover a certain   number of criteria in order to ensure diversity in the panel . These included : gender , age , level of education   and occupation . We wanted to make sure that different perspectives are included in our analysis . 

 In the first stage of the workshop , participants sat together in small groups of 5 - 6 people . Each small group ’s   discussion was moderated by a table moderator , who made sure that each participant can express their   opinion and that the group progresses with the tasks . 

 First , participants were asked to think about challenges from their everyday lives . Then , they were asked to   look into these challenges from a broader perspective and think about societal challenges ( e.g. quality of   education , migration , technologies ’ influence on people ’s lives , etc . ) . At the end of this session , with the help   of table moderators groups clustered the challenges they identified with sticky notes on flipcharts . Groups   presented their results to the rest . This stage of the process allowed participants to build a common   understanding about major challenges of nowadays . 

 In the next stage of the process participants were asked to think about how they imagine the desirable future .   The participants had 30 minutes to walk around the room and browse through the groups ’ results and the   flipcharts they created . They were encouraged to take notes of what they consider important and insightful .   After that participants went back to the tables . They were asked to write down on sticky notes aspects of the   desirable future , i.e. visions for the future ( e.g. children go to schools where the needs of every child are   individually met ) . Then again themes were clustered on a flipchart to formulate broader categories . At the   end tables presented to the rest of the participants their results . 

 Insight 

 An interesting result from the workshops was that similar challenges and visions for the future emerged from   the different national workshops . This result evinced that the pressing challenges for the future people are   concerned with are rather of a global scale than nationally bound . This calls for more collaboration between   researchers across borders . 

 In regard to the design thinking methodology , an important insight was that to motivate citizens to actively   participate in the event , they need to understand well the purpose of the event and how the results they   produced will be used in the future . 

 Approach 

 The feedback of table facilitators was that in the beginning the participants found it difficult to think about   specific aspects of their everyday life they perceived as current challenge . In order to successfully apply the   methodology it was important that people think about their own experiences rather that formulate the   challenges they have heard in the media . Thus , in order to stimulate participants think about their own   experiences , a good approach might be to ask them write a short story about their everyday life before the   discussions in the first stage of the event commence . This will help participants think of specific challenges   they face .
### Output: 