Preliminary outcomes of the Open Consultation

EMEG 1st OPEN CONSULTATION OUTCOMES Question A? In your experience, what are the most important factors enhancing the research results uptake and dissemination? Positive Factors Providing financial support for reserchers (including financing of joint R&I projects and infrastructures) Choice of appropriate and tailored communication media and methods (web, publications and scientific papers, scientific events, awareness campaign) 2 Participatory approaches in planning research strategies (involvement of target groups/actors in the whole research cycle) 3 Policy making and policies supporting research (including transparency and impartiality) Cooperation between research institutions (networking) and with private enterprises Question B In your experience, what are the most important barriers/constraints limiting the research results uptake and dissemination? Barriers/Costraints Lack of resources (financial, human and material) Lack or mismanagement in communication among different stakeholders Institutional (political) responsibility (including political instability, stagnation, corruption and lack of coordination) Poor interaction between research, industry (even SMES), policy makers and community 4 Research is not dealing with concrete problems on the ground and it is perceived as far from end consumers and civil society 5 Question C How would you define your most immediate groups of belonging? Civil society,consumers 27.78% No answer 6.94% Policy-makers, RTD managers 11.11% Scientific Community 45.83% Industry/enterprises 8.33% med To learn more, head to: http://agora.medspring.eu Spring Spring SACOM BY NO ND Scom for Medspring Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.o Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)