ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter by Mart Külvik, Monika Suškevičs, Mireia Gascon, Lewis R. Elliot, Jekaterina Balicka, Marina Cervera Alonso de Medina and Frederico Meireles is to present the ways in which co-design and public participation can be undertaken, with examples of stakeholder and local community involvement using the BlueHealth case studies in Plymouth in the United Kingdom, Rubí near Barcelona in Spain, Guimarães in Portugal and Tallinn in Estonia. It covers the theoretical aspects of co-design and participation with stakeholders, discussing stakeholder identification, different modes of engagement and the specifics of co-design.
