Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory Processes

In areas such as nature based solutions and biodiversity, Prospex enables effective dialogue, lasting agreements and strategies for changing contexts. Prospex is a pioneer service provider in stakeholder engagement, strategic foresight and negotiation & conflict resolution in complex science-policy-society interfaces and participatory processes. We have developed the STIR-approach to stakeholder integrated research, published and peer-reviewed in Climatic Change. Prospex has substantial experience with int. actors in research, civil society, government & business in high level projects (e.g. OPERAS – moving ecosystem services and natural capital beyond academia, or CASCADE - creating solutions for biodiversity hotspots in the Middle East).

Dr. Marc Gramberger is the managing director of Prospex. He designs and facilitates corporate learning, stakeholder engagement and foresight processes. Marc is a renowned facilitator of international conferences and workshops, and an international expert in foresight and scenario methodologies and stakeholder engagement. With interactive, creative and thorough interventions, he helps his clients to identify, understand and master strategic challenges in their organisational context. Marc has worked with a huge variety of organisations in the international arena, facilitated the UNEP Emerging Issues foresight process “21 Issues for the 21st Century“, has led many international participatory scenario and foresight projects, such as projects on the future of water in Europe and in the Middle East, the future of pandemics (ASEF-ASAP) and a series of EU 7th Research Framework projects (CLIMSAVE, VOLANTE, etc.). He is the author of the official landmark OECD handbook “Citizens as Partners“. 

Phone +32 15 225 440; headquarters@prospex.com

For nature based solutions, ecosystem services, biodiversity and many other areas, Prospex enables effective dialogue, lasting agreements and strategies for changing contexts.



Prospex is a pioneer service provider in the fields of stakeholder engagement, strategic foresight and negotiation & conflict resolution. We have developed the STIR approach to stakeholder integrated research, published and peer-reviewed in Climatic Change. We are specialists in engaging stakeholders in complex science-policy-society interfaces and participatory processes.



Prospex has substantial experience with international organisations and governments, companies and associations, civil society and research organisations in a wide range of high level projects. This includes for instance OPERAS - a five-year EU flagship project moving ecosystem services and natural capital beyond academia towards practical implementation. Another example is CASCADE, a project creating solutions biodiversity hotspots in the Middle East, between Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis.



We are happy to put our expertise at the service of your organisation and projects.

10.1007/s10584-014-1225-x - Gramberger , M., K. Zellmer , K. Kok and M. Metzger (2014) Stakeholder Integrated Research (STIR): A new approach tested in climate change adaptation research. Climatic Change, 128(3), 201- 214