Plan on Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation
To promote the project activities and results is one of the legal obligations of the project Grant agreement.
This plan on Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation is designed for promoting the project activities and results by informing multiple audiences such as citizens, the media, stakeholders, etc., it serves as a strategical basis for implementing outreach activities during CLOUD-DOC.
The main goals of the Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation activities are to make the project activities and results visible to the best experts in aerosol research, to generate market demand, to raise awareness of how public money is spent, and to show the success of European collaboration.
Scientific results of the project are planned to be published in scientific magazines, to be presented at scientific and/or targeted conferences. Finalised data of CLOUD experiments at CERN are continuously published in the databases in accordance with the Data Management Plan (Del.6.1).
The core of the MSCA project CLOUD-DOC is the CLOUD experiment at CERN. It brings together scientists from many institutions, also some who are not partners of CLOUD-DOC. The presentations of the CLOUD-DOC Fellows at the CLOUD Collaboration Meetings are of the great importance for the visibility of the MSCA EU project CLOUD-DOC to the research community.
For the benefit of innovation, the economy, and the society the results of the project are suggested to be used for commercial, societal, and political purposes.
Communication
What? |
How? |
When? |
Who is responsible? |
Start informing the scientific community and public about the MSCA DN project CLOUD-DOC and start promoting it during the recruitment process of the Doctoral Candidates |
For these purposes the management team will propose to the institutions involved to post the job advertisements not only at EURAXESS platform but also using other job advertising platforms at home institutions, local newspapers, scientific journals, sending e-mails with the information about the project and job opportunities, etc. |
During the recruitment period |
CLOUD-DOC Management Team, CLOUD-DOC Teams at partner institutions |
Inform each hired fellow and keep them reminded about his/her obligations on dissemination, communication, and outreach for CLOUD-DOC |
Provide each hired CLOUD-DOC fellow with a copy of the Grant Agreement, which contains the obligations on activities on communication, dissemination, and exploitation as a part of his/her employment contract. Include this topic into the timetable of the Summer School, organised by Goethe University Frankfurt. |
During the project time period |
CLOUD-DOC Management Team |
Promoting the project in the media and at the partner organisations |
Contact the media departments of the institutions involved and offer publications informing about the aims, frames, financial and other support from the EU to the project. Motivate the PIs to publish the information on the start and further development of CLOUD-DOC at the institutional webpages |
During the project time period |
CLOUD-DOC Management Team, project teams at partner institutions |
Communication in media, public space, etc. |
Support the production of the media content by CLOUD-DOC Fellows (articles in newspapers, on-line magazines, videos, etc). Create and update the CLOUD-DOC webpage |
During the project time period |
All project participants, Fellows included, CLOUD-DOC Management Team |
Explaining the EU MSCA funding scheme to external researchers and stakeholders |
Promote the project during the network training events by explaining the project and the EU MSCA funding scheme to the external participants of the CLOUD-DOC training events. Invite the stakeholders to the network events (for example https://international-relations.web.cern.ch/stakeholder-relations ) |
At the CLOUD network events |
All project participants |
Call the attention of the CLOUD-DOC Fellows to importance of the project communication, dissemination, and exploitation |
Collect annual reports from the CLOUD-DOC Fellows on the communication/dissemination/exploitation activities |
Periodically, using each opportunity |
CLOUD-DOC Management Team |
Make CLOUD-DOC and the support from the EU visible |
Prepare the logo of CLOUD-DOC, which includes the EU flag. Prepare and distribute promotional items for the project (for example stickers, blocks, memory sticks) Use the Open Day events at partner institutions for making the CLOUD-DOC activities visible |
During the project lifetime |
CLOUD-DOC Management Team , All project participants |
Dissemination:
Motivate Fellows of CLOUD-DOC to present the results of the work at the CLOUD collaboration meetings |
During preparation of the meeting and setting up the agenda send invitation e-mails to the fellows to give a talk, remind about the obligation of the visibility of funding through CLOUD-DOC |
During the project lifetime |
PIs, Fellows Supervisors, RTSGs |
Motivate Fellows and the PIs of CLOUD-DOC to present the results at the scientific conferences |
Discuss the participation of CLOUD-DOC Fellows in the scientific conferences at the meetings of RTSGs at host institutions, call attention to the visibility of the EU support |
During the project lifetime and afterwards |
RTSGs at host institutions |
Motivate Fellows and the PIs of CLOUD-DOC to present the work in progress/results in well understandable form to all that can learn from the results: authorities, industry, policymakers, sectors of interest, civil society |
Include in the training events respective courses on how to communicate with media, authorities, industry, policymakers, sectors of interest, and civil society |
During the project lifetime and afterwards |
RTSGs, CLOUD-DOC Management Team |
Support activities of the Paper Committee of the CLOUD collaboration at CERN in preparing publications |
Paper Committee is established for the whole CLOUD Experiment collaboration at CERN. During the collaboration meetings the topics and magazines of publications, time frames, author lists etc are discussed. The obligation to make funding through EU is steadily reminded |
During the project lifetime and afterwards |
All partners of CLOUD-DOC |
Exploitation:
Call attention of the young scientist to implementing the scientific results |
Discuss how to make the results used by young scientists themselves, by industry, by politic and other potential users |
During the project lifetime and afterwards |
RTSGs, CLOUD-DOC Management Team |
Provide young scientists with knowledge, documents, and materials needed for making the results of their research used |
Offer courses and talks by external lecturers as well as by CLOUD-DOC PIs running their own SMEs/working in the SMEs |
During the training events of the project |
Project PIs, CLOUD-DOC Management Team |
Motivate and support project fellows for organising the secondments at industrial partners of CLOUD-DOC
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Start/support timely discussions on the planning the secondments |
During the project lifetime |
RTSGs, CLOUD-DOC Management Team |
Motivate CLOUD-DOC Fellows having contracts at the academic institutions to register patents in case of patentable idea |
Explain that academic institutions are also often participating in exploitation of the results in many ways
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During the project lifetime |
RTSGs, CLOUD-DOC Management Team |