Involving society in science: reflections on meaningful and impactful stakeholder engagement in fundamental research

Open Science calls for transparent science and involvement of various stakeholders. Here are examples of and advice for meaningful stakeholder engagement. Ana Lúcia Mena was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology—FCT. The Soy-in-1000-gardens project and the Liver project were funded within the Grand Challenges Program of VIB. This VIB Program received support from the Flemish Government under the Management Agreement 2017–2021 (VR 2016 2312 Doc.1521/4). Inês Pinheiro funded by ANR LabEx DEEP (11-LBX-0044, ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02) and by Institut Curie. We acknowledge support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to the EMBL partnership, the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa and the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. We acknowledge funding from European Commission (EC): 741527