Project Info
IConnectEU 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. Currently, multiple projects - regardless their Research Area or instrument - are dealing with the same issue or address common questions. Common cross-project infrastructures to share information, to jointly disseminate results or to ensure accessibility of results after project completion are rarely available due to the specific nature and to the diversity of the projects (regarding their priorities, the methodology used, their duration and also the participants). As a matter of fact, dissemination is very fragmented and access to research results is complicated.
The objective of IConnectEU is to create a generic infrastructure for joint dissemination activities across thematically related projects, consisting of a software platform, a reference model for integrated dissemination, and guidelines on how to implement the infrastructure in different domains.
Eight projects funded under Priority 7 and dealing with the broad topic of Governance in the EU are serving as a use case for creating a pilot portal on EU Governance which make available their outcomes at a single place. The experiences made in building this portal will be evaluated in a feasibility study and serve as a Best-Practice example for other Areas of FP6 and FP7. A cost-effectiveness study will additionally analyse the benefits of integrated dissemination. Guidelines in the form of Blue Prints will support other projects in adapting IConnectEU results to their domains. The software created in the project will be made available to similar dissemination activities.
IConnectEU is organized in three work packages:
Work package 1 includes the overall management of the consortium and project, and strategic decisions concerning WP2 and WP3.
Work package 2 includes the implementation of the Pilot Internet Portal (PIP) on EU Governance which will make the outcomes of the individual projects accessible in an integrated way. The result of the work package will be the final version of the PIP which will be provided as a sustainable service to the community.
Work package 3 will assess the benefits of an integrated portal for cross-project dissemination activities by carrying out a feasibility and a cost-effectiveness study and by organizing a demonstration workshop (for the Pilot Internet Portal) to get feedback from different groups of stakeholders. The results of this work package will be the outcomes of the two studies which will be combined with results of the workshop and the evaluation of the PIP to yield best-practice guidelines for building integrated information portals.
Funded by
European Commission