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Climate Futures: Horizon 2020 Research Impact Services
Horizon 2020 has a far greater emphasis on research impact than previous EU funding streams. It is widely reported that evaluators consider this the most important aspect of a proposal.
Climate Futures improves the competiveness of bids and research impact through:
• Strategy: ensuring the research concept and proposal meets the expected impacts of the work programme and wider EU goals
• Exploitation and dissemination: identifying research users and ensuring outputs meet their needs
• Communication: professional digital and graphic design, journalism, photography and video
• Management and research: overseeing work packages and involvement as a scientific partner to ensure high quality deliverables
Impact: what funders demand
“…any consultancy company in H2020 proposals should play an integral part in the project, so providing expertise on how to link outputs to outcomes and impact”. UKRO conference, Birmingham, Jun’15 (UKRO)
“assessing impact…is part of the new strategic emphasis” (ESRC)”
“You must be able to provide evidence of research impact e.g. how it’s used by policymakers, practitioners…and led to improvements in services or business” (ESRC)
UKRO: UK Research Office ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council
H2020 evaluation: Impact is 33% of score
Excellence Impact Quality & efficiency of implementation
Score 1: Threshold 3/5
Score 2: Threshold
3/5 Score 3:
Threshold 3/5
• Ground-‐breaking objectives • Novel concepts • Innovative approaches • State of art science
• Innovation capacity
• Competitiveness
• Growth of EU markets, business
• Environmental & social
• Dissemination of results
• Communication of results
• Work plan • Complementarily of participants • Risk & innovation management
Score 3: Threshold 3/5
Why H2020 proposals fail
“Lack of a coherent dissemination strategy”
“Exploitation & communication plan is underdeveloped”
“Unrealistic dissemination plan”
“The dissemination plan is convincing, however, success depends on the timely establishment of a multi-‐actor community, which is uncertain”
“The proposal does not sufficiently explain which mechanisms will be used to influence governance processes”
“(Financial) resources are insufficiently or incorrectly allocated”
Source: evaluation feedback from evaluators to prolific H2020 bidder, 2014-‐15
Selected Climate Futures projects and partners
TESS: Toward European Societal Sustainability
Afri-‐Flame
Climate Smart Agriculture
Others
Climate Futures contributes to all stages of the research project life cycle
Creative ideas
New partners, networks
Impact, dissemination & communication chapters
1 year 2 year 3 year 1-‐3 years PROPOSAL
Business innovation
‘Toolkit’ & users
Policy briefs
Papers
Research outputs
Communication strategy
Brand, graphics, website
Strengthened networks and reach
News channels & feed (multi media)
Info-‐graphics
Video and photography
Conferences and workshops
CONCEPT & CONSORTIUM SUBMISSION SET UP ANALYSIS RESULTS LEGACY DATA
Climate Futures develops proposal concepts & diagrams
PROPOSAL
Creative ideas
New partners, networks
Impact, dissemination & communication chapters
Benefits we bring:
Case study 1: TESS
• EU FP7 project, led by PIK, eight partners in six countries • Success factors and impact of community-‐based initiatives: energy, transport, food, waste domains • Emphasis in proposal on community engagement, dissemination and communication • We were invited to the consortium as an equal research partner and to increase impact
www.tess-‐transition.eu www.sustainable-‐communities.eu
Social media experience
Design of website
Copywriting of stories, blogs, features
Professional photography and video
Benefits we bring:
Thorough research approach
Help organising midterm conference
Coordination of WP5
Community engagement via networks
Case study 1: TESS
Case study 2: Climate Smart Agriculture
• An action-‐led project to help 1500 smallholder farmers in Malawi to diversify crops, incomes and diets, adapt to climate change and enhance their environment
• Forming a network of civil society organisations to improve community services and policies
• Giving a voice to farmers and encouraging 360º evaluation through participatory video
www.kusamala.org/projects-‐partners/climate-‐smart-‐agriculture/
Photography (exhibition quality)
Calendar designed for farmer wall (5yr+)
Newsletters for general communication
Benefits we bring:
Co-‐management of communication
Innovation -‐ participatory video
Case study 2: Climate Smart Agriculture
Case study 3: Afri-‐flame
• A research project with 10 Universities, SMEs and NGOs in four countries
• Establishment of energy villages in three African countries to test biogas and stove technologies
• Research into economic, environmental, health and social impacts, and practical use
• Our role is to improve impact through community engagement, dissemination and communication
www.afri-‐flame.net
Benefits we bring:
First point of contact in research villages
Design of website and biogas basics pack using local illustrators
Hands on engagement…
MSc student
About Climate Futures
• SME, with an EU PIC number
• Team of six with MScs, PhD: environmental technology, renewables engineering, carbon management, forestry
• Qualified communicators: graphic design, journalism, film making, photography
• Active consortium partner: familiar with proposal writing, research methods, writing papers, submitting EC deliverables
H2020 calls of interest, 2016: ‘Secure, clean and efficient energy’
EE-‐7-‐2016/2017: Engaging private consumers towards sustainable energy
EE-‐8-‐2016/2017: Behavioural change toward energy efficiency through ICT
EE 9 – 2016: Socio-‐economic research on consumer's behaviour related to energy efficiency
EE-‐10-‐2016/2017: Engaging and activating public authorities
EE-‐11-‐2016: Supporting accelerated and cost-‐effective deep renovation of buildings
EE-‐12-‐2016/2017: Overcoming market barriers and promoting deep renovation of buildings
LCE 1 – 2016: Next generation innovative technologies enabling smart grids, storage and energy system integration with increasing share of renewables….
LCE 2 – 2016/2017: Demonstration of smart grid, storage and system integration technologies with increasing share of renewables: distribution system
LCE-‐31-‐2016/2017: Social Sciences and Humanities Support for the Energy Union
H2020 calls of interest, 2016: SC5 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials’
SC5-‐03-‐2016: Climate services market research
SC5-‐6-‐2016/2017: Pathways towards the decarbonisation and resilience of the European economy in the timeframe 2030-‐2050 and beyond
SC-‐8-‐2016: Demonstrating innovative nature-‐based solutions for climate and water resilience in cities
SC5-‐9-‐2016: New governance, business, financing models & economic impact assessment tools for sustainable cities with nature-‐based…
SC5-‐11-‐2016: Insurance value of ecosystems
SC5-‐12-‐2016: Multi-‐stakeholder dialogue platform to promote innovation with nature to address societal challenges
SC5-‐12-‐2016: Food systems and water resources for the development of inclusive, sustainable and healthy Euro-‐Mediterranean societies
SC5-‐24-‐2017: Innovative financing, business and governance models for adaptive re-‐use of cultural heritage
H2020 calls of interest, 2016: ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’
SFS 31 2016. Farming for tomorrow: developing an enabling environment for resilient and sustainable agricultural systems
SFS-‐44-‐2016: Achieving food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture in Africa: the role of innovation
RUR-‐06-‐2016: Crop diversification systems for the delivery of food, feed, industrial products and ecosystems services: from farm benefits to value-‐chain organisation
RUR-‐07-‐2016: Resource-‐efficient and profitable industrial crops on marginal lands
RUR-‐11-‐2016: On farm demonstrations: deepening farmer-‐to-‐farmer learning mechanisms
RUR – 15-‐2016 : The benefits of working with others – fostering social capital in the farming sector
BE-‐1-‐2016: Sustainability schemes for the bio-‐based economy
BE-‐4-‐2016. Bio-‐based products: Mobilisation and mutual learning action plan
BE-‐6-‐2016. Life-‐cycle assessment of wood value chains and applications for the bioeconomy
Contact details
Charles Henderson
Skype: chrshend
+44 131 225 8081
www.climatefutures.co.uk
