ABSTRACT
The catalogue of public engagement (PE) innovations is a collection of detailed case descriptions and reflections provided by individual case coordinators with particular expertise related to the initiative in question. The common survey structure allowed for horizontal comparisons of PE innovations, while the open and qualitative approach simultaneously enabled a more inductive and nuanced examination of the concept and features of innovative practices. For the analysis of the data on PE innovations, two complementary methodological approaches were chosen, in order to get a rich understanding of the dimensions of innovative PE. One working group of the PE2020 research consortium carried out a qualitative content analysis, while another group conducted a quantitative analysis using descriptive statistics. Qualitative analysis included content analysis of each public engagement case description. The content analysis applied both, so to say‚ bottom-up and top-down approaches.
