Anna Kozak, PhD student at the Department of Public Management and Social Sciences of the University of Economics in Katowice will implement the project “Co-production ecosystem – factors favoring co-production of social services” under the Preludium program, funded by the National Science Center.

Co-production is a model for the delivery of social services that allows their users to participate actively in joint planning, design, delivery and evaluation together with representatives of the public sector.

The aim of the grant recipient’s research is to analyze and evaluate the factors that favor the initiation of co-production of social services in the local environment, with particular emphasis on environmental (external) factors. Anna Kozak is proposing an ecosystem of conditions conducive to the co-production of social services between a public organization and civil society.