Practicing What You Preach—A Commentary on Chapter 5

In this commentary, I reflect on some of the issues raised by the authors of Chapter 5 this volume. Specifically, I address the opportunities and difficulties of enabling co-creation in a large biomedical consortium, R2D2-MH. In R2D2-MH, overall, researchers are convinced of the fact that co-creation of fundamental biomedical research with people with lived experiences is indispensable if we want such research to be meaningful and ethical. At the same time, there is still much work to be done with regard to the conditions under which such co-creation should be done. This implies a rethinking of how science and science funding is done, and of what it means to truly participate in research.