{"id":648,"date":"2026-03-27T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/?p=648"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:18:23","slug":"enact-pathfinders-early-adopters-eoi-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/enact-pathfinders-early-adopters-eoi-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Enact Pathfinders Early Adopters EOI now open"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"648\" class=\"elementor elementor-648\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-17166bd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"17166bd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a4b72a1\" data-id=\"a4b72a1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb86e22 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cb86e22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>*We have extended the closing date for the Expression of Interest call for Early Adopters to Friday 24 April*<\/h1>\n<h3>The Enact Pathfinders Programme forms part of our co-design approach to establishing Enact &#8211; giving practice researchers and your teams the opportunity to share your knowledge of creative practice research and proactively contribute to the development of Enact.<\/h3>\n<p>This will include: <br>&#8211; Bringing knowledge and\/or experience of creating, collecting and\/or sharing creative practice research. <br>&#8211; Bringing academic practice researchers and experts who work with practice researchers to help share their research process\/outputs\/data &#8211; which could include (but is not limited to) repositories, research data, curation, metadata, licensing, intellectual property, copyright, research management, impact.<br>&#8211; Getting early access to the Enact Repository and providing feedback to inform its development.<br>&#8211; Contributing to the creation of Enact documentation. <br>&#8211; Contributing to other parts of the programme such as the development of a skills and training programme.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>There are three types of Pathfinder: Pilot, Early Adopter, and Challenger.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>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.<\/h4>\n<p>This will give you the opportunity to:<br>&#8211; Bring a research project that has significant amounts of extant materials which include shareable assets.<br>&#8211; Provide access to at least some of those who contributed to the research project (academic and associated experts).<br>&#8211; Contribute to the review of the PR Voices metadata schema that underpins the Enact Repository.<br>&#8211; Contribute to the initial build of the Enact: Core Repository.<br>&#8211; Input into plans for skills development and training.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/pathfinders\/\">Enact Pathfinders page<\/a> for more information.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>View\/download a PDF version of the&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2026\/03\/Enact-early-adopter-pathfinder-programme-EOI-questions.pdf\"><strong>Enact early adopter pathfinder programme EOI questions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk\/s\/westminster\/enact-early-adopter-pathfinder-programme-expression-of-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click to launch the Enact Pathfinders Early Adopters Expression of Interest Form<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>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).<\/h3>\n<h3>For specific questions about the Early Adopters Programme please get in touch with the Enact team via Enact@westminster.ac.uk<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*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 &#8211; giving practice researchers and your teams the opportunity to share your knowledge of creative practice research and proactively contribute to the development &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/enact-pathfinders-early-adopters-eoi-now-open\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enact Pathfinders Early Adopters EOI now open&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}