*We have extended the closing date for the Expression of Interest call for Early Adopters to Friday 24 April*

The Enact Pathfinders Programme forms part of our co-design approach to establishing Enact – giving practice researchers and your teams the opportunity to share your knowledge of creative practice research and proactively contribute to the development of Enact.

This will include:
– Bringing knowledge and/or experience of creating, collecting and/or sharing creative practice research.
– Bringing academic practice researchers and experts who work with practice researchers to help share their research process/outputs/data – which could include (but is not limited to) repositories, research data, curation, metadata, licensing, intellectual property, copyright, research management, impact.
– Getting early access to the Enact Repository and providing feedback to inform its development.
– Contributing to the creation of Enact documentation.
– Contributing to other parts of the programme such as the development of a skills and training programme.

There are three types of Pathfinder: Pilot, Early Adopter, and Challenger.

Early Adopter Pathfinders will make a major contribution to Enact between May-August 2026 as such involve a commitment for members of your team to actively contribute to a number of sessions during this time. These sessions will take place online between 3pm and 5.30pm.

This will give you the opportunity to:
– Bring a research project that has significant amounts of extant materials which include shareable assets.
– Provide access to at least some of those who contributed to the research project (academic and associated experts).
– Contribute to the review of the PR Voices metadata schema that underpins the Enact Repository.
– Contribute to the initial build of the Enact: Core Repository.
– Input into plans for skills development and training.

You and your team will have the opportunity to continue to contribute as mutually agreed on an ongoing basis for the remainder of the project after this time.

See the Enact Pathfinders page for more information. 

View/download a PDF version of the Enact early adopter pathfinder programme EOI questions

Click to launch the Enact Pathfinders Early Adopters Expression of Interest Form

The call for Expressions of Interest in the Enact Early Adopters Programme will close on Friday 24 April 2026 at midnight British Summer Time (BST).

For specific questions about the Early Adopters Programme please get in touch with the Enact team via Enact@westminster.ac.uk