Dissemination and Exploitation (D&E) in H2020

Coordinators’ Day on Grant Agreement Preparation , 19 September 2019

Ioannis SAGIAS

Common Implementation Center, DG RTD B.6

Horizon 2020 Programme increased importance given to D&E

…and we have to ensure it

Improved valueof R&I funding*

More ImpactBetter D&E

H2020 Implementation rules

o Proposal template highlights Dissemination and Exploitation plan as

an admissibility condition and included in the Impact criterion evaluation

o Grant agreement (GA) includes articles 28 on Exploitation and 29 on Dissemination and possibly additional D&E

obligations following the WP

o On July 2018, the R&I family endorsed a revised Strategy for effective dissemination and exploitation of H2020

research results calls for:

o Better use of funded R&I project results to economic and social use

o Making available scientific evidence in support of policy making

What are project results?

*http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/support/reference_terms.html

Results

Any tangible or intangible output of theaction, such as data, knowledge andinformation whatever their form or nature,whether or not they can be protected.*

o Key exploitable results are the outputs generated during theproject which can be used and create impact, either by theproject partners or by other stakeholders

• Project results can be reusable and exploitable (e.g. inventions, prototypes, services) as such, or elements (knowledge, technology, processes, networks) that have potential to contribute for further work on research or innovation

Collaboration platforms

Educationalmaterials

Pre-standards

Codes of conduct

Software

Publications

Prototypes

Reports

Skills and knowledge

Research roadmaps

Policy recommendations

Data

Project results

Research communities

MS, EU policy makers

Civic society, citizens

Industry, Innovators

What is communication?

* Shortened from http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/support/reference_terms.html

Is strategically planned with communication objectivesand not only ad-hoc efforts

Demonstrate how EU funding contributes to tacklingsocietal challenges

Reach out to society as a whole

Uses pertinent messages, right medium and means

Communication

Taking strategic and targeted measures for promoting the action itself and its results to a multitude of audiences, including the media and the public, and possibly engaging in a two-way exchange*

What is dissemination?

* http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/support/reference_terms.html

Essential element of all good research practice and vital partof the project plan

Enabling the value of results to be potentially wider than theoriginal focus

Circulation of knowledge and results to the ones that canbest make use of them

Strengthens and promotes the profile of the organisation

Dissemination

Making the results of a project public, not only by scientific publications in any medium*

Communication

What is the difference?

Newsletter

Press release

Project factsheet, brochure

Social media (blogs, Twitter, Facebook,

LinkedIn)

Informing about the project Informing about the results Making results available for re-use

Dissemination

Scientific publications

Policy brief/roadmap

Training/demonstration

Sharing results on online repository(research data, software, reports)

About the projectresults

Multiple audiences

Inform and reach out to society, show the benefits of research

Grant Agreement art. 38.1

About results only

Audiences that may use the results in their own work

Enable use and uptakeof results

Grant Agreement art. 29

Project website, videos, interview, articles in magazines, exhibitions/ open days, guided visits,

conference, presentation and workshops.

What is meant by exploitation?

* http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/support/reference_terms.html

Can be commercial, societal, political, for improving public knowledge and for policy making

Concretise the value and impact of the R&I activity for societal challenges

Make use of results; recognising exploitable results and their stakeholders

Project partners can exploit results themselves, or facilitate exploitation by others (e.g. through making results available under open licenses)

Exploitation

The utilisation of results in developing, creating and marketing a product or process, or in creating and providing a service, or in standardisation activities.*

Dissemination Exploitation

What is the difference?

Scientific publicationPolicy brief/roadmap

TrainingDemonstration

Sharing results on online repository

(research data, software, reports)

Making results available Facilitating further use of results Making use of results

Spin-off/Start-upProductPatentPhD thesis/postStandardServiceSocietal activityOpen/copyleft licensesFurther researchPolicy change

Describing and makingresults available

Audiences that may makeuse of results

All results which are not restricted due to the protection of intellectualproperty, security rules or legitimate interests.

Grant Agreement art. 29

Utilisation of results, for scientific, societal or economicpurposes

Groups and entities that are making concrete use of results

All results generatedduring project (exploitation by the project or anotherentity)

Grant Agreement art. 28

Innovation management, Copyright management, Data management plan, Active stakeholder/user

engagement.

Why it does not always happen? Lessons learned through H2020

• Perceiving D&E as "tick boxes", not important for the "real work" of the project (research)

• Focusing on implementing VS aligning work with the needs of users and stakeholders

• Lack of skills (or interest) to effectively consider or share the value and possible benefits of the results for wider society

• Lack of knowledge of dissemination and exploitation risks and opportunities (issues, solutions, other projects)

• Not (yet) truly part of the project design

• Often interpreted as an activity after the project lifetime

Why should you do D&E?Lessons learned through H2020

• Improves the quality of your research through feedback

• Attracts new talents to join your team

• Provides further international and interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities

• Improves access to other funding opportunities (notably from private)

• You can contribute to societal goals thereby providing more visibility to the researcher / institution

D&E in Horizon EuropeD&E remains key in FP implementation

• Dissemination is a specific objective for all measures

• D&E in FP

Information, communication, publicity and D&E

Calling for a comprehensive D&E strategy

• FP and SP annexes on D&E

Demonstrate the impact and maximise the European added value of the FP

Dissemination of clusters of mature results to EU regions

Accelerate exploitation towards market uptake

• Delivery mechanism

Contractual obligations of beneficiaries for D&E reporting during and after the project

Encourage the third party exploitation

D&E tools

1. H2020 Dashboard

2. CORDIS

3. Horizon Results Platform

4. Innovation Radar (IR)

5. The D&E Booster

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1. H2020 Dashboard Modern visual analytics (data discovery tool)

Frequently refreshed

Complete picture

External Dashboard through F&T

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The point of reference to seek information on EC funded research projects, public available

Focus on dissemination

Products and services offered:

Publishable summaries for H2020

Results Packs, Investor packs

Enhanced Results in Brief

H2020 public deliverables and Publications

Renewed website with better visualisation and search functionalities

Offers support for accessing Open Air results (search interface):

https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset?q=cordis&ext_boolean=all&s

2. CORDIS

3. Horizon Results Platform

• Business Case

• Pilot with Research Results beneficiaries

• Developed as part of the F&T Portal

• Vision for Corporate Platform for EC Results; not limited to “Research”

• Pilot - Horizon Results Platform

• Results presented through sales-pitch style abstract, video, PowerPoint presentation(s), other.

• By sector, geography, tagged with keywords.

• External users (MS ministries, universities, EC Institutions, Investors, etc.) will be able to search results and initiate contact

• Follow-up surveys by Commission to find out the outcome of the interaction (to assist impact assessment)

4. Innovation Radar (IR)

A data-driven methodology to deliver intelligence on

The innovations emerging from the projects

The innovators: who and where?

Market readiness?

Structured systematic data without increasing reporting for beneficiaries

Not topic-specific approach

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5. New D&E Boosters - 2019!

New procurement in progress (4-yrs FWC) offering number of D&E services to

beneficiaries

New call for expression of interest published in September 2019 on F&T Portal

Projects that want to increase their D&E potential are encouraged to apply

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Resources supporting beneficiariesResources currently accessible for beneficiaries

H2020 online manual & F&T portal

Dissemination and Exploitation – to be expanded with more concrete guidance on D&E

Open Access and Data Management

Communication

H2020 Glossary

Presentation of the Coordinators day on D&E

IPR helpdesk

Guidance

Helpline

Trainings

New guidance on Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation under development

Dissemination towards potential users of results

CORDIS

Publishable summaries

Enhanced results-in-brief

Results packs

Public H2020 deliverables

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