Practice Abstract - Research and innovation

Recommendations for increasing uptake of your Practice Abstract

Practice Abstracts (PAs) are a tool to disseminate knowledge generated through TNs and other Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects. They provide short and concise practical information using the EIP-AGRI common format. As part of the EURKANOS project several workshops took place with TN coordinators and end-users to provide recommendations to enhance PA uptake, use and impact.



The key recommendations were:

1. Practice abstracts must be easily accessible to end-users:

2. A search function to filter and sort on sector, topic and language is essential.

3. Many end-users across Europe do not speak English, therefore an opportunity to search on language and an option for automatic translation to extend the language availability.

4. End-users are interested in information on a certain topic and not interested in a specific project. All PAs should be accessible through their topic.

5. End-users need contextual information to understand whether the information in the PA could be applied in their context. A section to explain context should be added or the character count should be increased.

6. To support the limited character count it should be mandatory to provide links to videos etc. to further explore the topic.

7. Advisors help farmers to utilize information in PAs - focus on promoting PAs to advisors and provide support to advisors to utilise these.

8. Where permission is granted, include the contact details of the people that actually developed the innovation first-hand. This will increase the credibility and trustworthiness of the information.



For best practice case examples, see page 24 of the Explorers Guide https://euraknos.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/production/deliverables/20…

Source Project
EURAKNOS
Ongoing | 2019-2021
Main funding source
Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
Geographical location
Belgium
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