Anonymised answers to the Delphi 2 survey

The MESOC project adopted a modified version of the Delphi methodology, based on two consecutive survey rounds involving experts from all over the world in late 2021 - early 2022 on the topic of assessing the societal value of culture, the results of which have been discussed in an expert workshop held in Athens in May 2022. The second survey went more in-depth into the topics of social impact evaluation of culture and into the typologies of transition variables and related proxies that may serve to detect the transformational changes induced by cultural projects and policies. The influence of these variables has been analysed through the lens of the three main dimensions of the MESOC project: Health and Wellbeing; People Engagement and Participation; Urban and Territorial Renovation. Invited experts were representatives of different groups that play an important role in the researched field, namely: Academics and consultants; Directors / managers of cultural projects; Public administration and policy makers, and private foundations supporting cultural projects aiming at social impact. The criteria for identifying the experts to be consulted were to have a sample composed by half academic and consultant specialists of culture and creativity and the other half by professionals from the cultural private and public sector. The second group was mainly chosen by the partners, starting from the participants in the first survey round, the results of which are also made available here on Zenodo. As a byproduct of the survey, an interactive set of reusable and empirically validated guidelines for academics and practitioners willing to replicate the MESOC approach on a different scale can be retrived online at: https://www.mesoc-project.eu/resources/methodological-guidelines/interactive