This report describes how the GENDER STI Co-Design Labs integrate the design thinking of the GENDER STI project to address its general and specific objectives of aligning the gender balance in STI and the application of the gender perspective in bilateral agreements between the EU Member States (MS), Associated Countries (AC), and third countries. It describes the methods, participatory steps, roles, responsibilities, and tools that will be adopted to define targeted policy recommendations, launch pilot actions and support the emergence of an international community of practitioners that have the same societal aims and want to collaborate in their implementation.

The core method at the basis of the LABs is the Societal Innovation Camp Methodology, with its inclusive, agile, iterative, non-linear, incremental, entrepreneurial, and pioneering discovery mindset. The document outlines in detail the methodology with its guiding principles timeline, tasks and tools that will be used in the preparation, implementation and follow up of the Gender STI LABs.