Welcome to the IConnectEU website
IConnectEU (speak: I connect You) aims at increasing the visibility and impact of collaborative research in Europe by improving the dissemination of and the accessibility to research outcomes from projects with similar topics and audience.
Due to their complexity, research topics of global relevance can not be dealt with by individual projects. More than often these research topics are split up across Framework Programmes, Priorities and individual research projects – all with different scope, aims and methodology, but complementary. This makes it difficult for researchers, political stakeholders and the interested public to learn about such projects and to get an overview of what has already been achieved concerning the research topic as a whole.
For such individual research projects, IConnectEU aims at developing a joint platform for disseminating their outcomes at one place and in a standardized way. This will allow users of such information more easily to get an overview of actors, activities and outcomes related to a research topic and to see how the project’s research and outcomes are related to each others. As a proof of concept, IConnectEU builds a Pilot Internet Portal on research outcomes from eight projects dealing with different aspects of EU Governance 
. Experiences gained and technologies created in IConnectEU will be made available for re-use to projects on other topics and in other domains.
IConnectEU is funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission in the Thematic Priority “Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society” (CIT6-028416) and runs from March 2006 until October 2008.
Funded by
European Commission