ECO-PRO

"Professional promotion of eco-innovative research results through a new media integrated platform for SMEs, research and the public"

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Public funded research needs to fully benefit society. This is especially true for environmental and climate research where successful market uptake is particularly urgent. However, the market uptake for public environmental R&D results remains a challenge. The main barriers have been identified by the partners for DG Research (2006) as fragmentation of information, inward communication of researchers, lack of market knowledge and innovation management skills and public funding gaps. ECO-PRO seeks to remove some of these barriers and to accelerate market take-up by maximising the potential use value of R&D results through an e-dissemination process addressing their usefulness, usability and applicability for an eco innovation community. To achieve this general objective, ECO-PRO will develop three lines of complementary e-dissemniation activities: Gathering, selecting, classifying and packaging in an useable manner the most useful and exploitable results (at least 100) from FP6 and FP7 in a virtual library; Designing and operating an interactive platform including useful, usable and acceptable knowledge modules and tools supporting the market take-up of R&D results: EU funding guide and helpdesk, webinars, VNRs, e-technology brokering tool, etc. (Net-) working throughout the project with eco-innovation actors as well as kick-starting and maintaining a dedicated open community involving more than 2,000 eco-innovation stakeholders in an interactive ECO-PRO platform. The ECO-PRO platform will be useful for potential technology users (good and clear information) as well as for R&D teams (the best way to present the results to the market). Greenovate and youris are 2 European non-for-profit networks with focus on eco-innovation. Their core business is knowledge exploitation, dissemination and audiovisual science communication. Their competences, networks and experience will ensure that ECO-PRO succeeds beyond the end of EC funding.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Tidy summaries of interesting eco-innovative research on the http://www.innovationseeds.eu (INNOVATIONSEEDS website) are at the ready. Generating awareness of the latest eco-innovative solutions, the ECO-PRO website also highlights funding opportunities and policy measures.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Financially supported by the EU Commission, the ECO-PRO project used and continues to use social media very effectively to spread new research. The latest eco-news can be accessed by joining the community on the website, following the INNOVATIONSEEDS Twitter account, or joining the LinkedIn group Green Knowledge for Industry and Politics.

The website is easy to use for the largest audience possible including business leaders, technology users, policymakers and research teams. An area of interest can be accessed by category, location or stage of the research.

Creative solutions to everyday problems or even industry-wide issues are available by using the research and development presented. Media professionals including producers, editors and journalists can find up-to-date material in a visual format for easy dissemination and use in programme segments.

The website consists of four different categories of information. There is a library of case studies, a financing library, a case studies library supporting the development and diffusion of eco-innovation topics, and an information list on a variety of networks that are active in eco-innovation domains worldwide. The key strength is the ability to search by categories and keywords in all libraries. Polished articles with webinars and professionally presented videos support the social media and brokerage events.

Project members developed two key results with business potential. First, they developed the methodology for structuring and packaging research dissemination and design knowledge, named Knowledge3. Secondly they built the e-platform INNOVATIONSEEDS with results organised in line with the Knowledge3 methodology.

From raising awareness about their own endeavours to using the database for research, the EU researcher can benefit from ECO-PRO. The website bridges the gap between newly created companies that might have licensed technology and the people eager to use and develop the latest research.