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Mission and Objectives

METRA is driven by the conviction that many of today’s challenges cannot be addressed through specialised knowledge alone, but require cross-boundary ways of producing knowledge, learning, and acting together. We promote methodological approaches that recognise diverse ways of being, feeling, participating, and knowing, and that place care, reflexivity, and purposeful action at the centre of knowledge processes.

We design, support, and evaluate methodological laboratories and innovations, applied research projects, learning processes, and spaces for collective experimentation. Our work places particular emphasis on participatory, creative, community-based, and context-sensitive approaches. It draws on traditions such as participatory action research, critical pedagogy, arts-based methodologies, and transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability, while integrating technological and data-based tools where relevant.

METRA operates as a collaborative space connecting researchers, educators, artists, professionals, public institutions, and civil society organisations. Working across local, European, and international contexts, we seek to contribute to more just, relevant, and transformative knowledge practices.

METRA is set up to design, support, and accompany transdisciplinary and participatory processes across a wide range of contexts and scales. Drawing on the experience of its members and collaborators, the association operates as a methodological and strategic partner, adapting its involvement to the needs and scope of each collaboration.