The mise en abyme of an intergenerational research project: An intergenerational committee as a process and research subject

Intergenerational projects are highly valued by public decision-makers and academic leaders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the importance of intergenerational relationships and community-based intergenerational projects has reemerged. This article presents the results of a study on an intergenerational project rooted in the community. The particularity of this study is that it uses a co-constructive methodological approach, that is to say, it pairs academic researchers from different backgrounds and older citizens throughout the research process. The results relate to the expectations of the participants in the intergenerational project, the description of the progress of the project (over a period of ten months), and the perceptions of intergenerational relations during the project. We finish this article with a discussion of the central observation of our study and our experience in the context of co-constructive research.