Fairville  is an international and collaborative research project funded by Horizon Europe (EU's funding program for research and innovation). The  Fairville project intends to address embedded urban inequalities and the challenge this poses to democracy in large cities and urban regions. Co-production is understood, within the project, as bottom-up collaboration processes for reinvigorated local democratic engagement between four main kinds of partners: civil-society organizations (CBO's, ordinary residents and users), academics and researchers, third party facilitators or advocacy organizations and local and regional authorities.

As part of this project, a curated program of Dialogues in Co-production  events have been designed with the aim of both advancing the understanding and practice of community-led coproduction across the Fairville consortium, its labs and wider partners; and also consolidating an international community of practice interested in exploring and learning from real-life experiments to address the growing social, spatial, environmental and political inequalities in our cities

Starting in January 2026, the DiC Enabler Mini-Series marks the next phase of this process. Whereas e arlier DiC sessions examined actor-based enabling roles ( such as those of universities and progressive professional bodies ) or agreed sector-focused discussions (such as housing and the environment), t he Enablers Series focuses on the conditions that enable meaningful coproduction to develop and to shape the production of practices, policies, plans, services, and places that communities push for. Beyond co-learning and networking purposes, the series aims to help in the formulation of consolidated demands and proposals to strengthen coproduction practices in and beyond the European Region.

The first dialogue in this mini-series is titled 'Establishing / Grounding Meaningful Co-Production'  and will take place on Thursday 15 January 2026, 3-5pm (CET) / 2-4pm (GMT). A zoom link will be shared with all registered participants 24 hours before the event starts.