Principles, standards and criteria for quality science communication resources. COALESCE project (grant agreement No 101095230), funded by the European Union.

The European Competence Centre for Science Communication is dedicated to supporting allactors from the research and innovation system and beyond, in their practice of sciencecommunication. We are not alone - a number of valuable resources, from handbooks totraining materials have been produced by many institutions and individuals and are available inmultiple languages.The Competence Centre offers an online library (the “Scicomm Toolbox”), inviting the sciencecommunication community for their contribution to collect such resources. To ensure theirquality and maximise their impact, a set of principles, standards and criteria (the“COALESCE PSCs”) were created. The PSCs are aimed both at resource creators, as aself-reflection tool in their daily work, as well as at users, as a support tool to select themost relevant and effective resources from those to be available in the Scicomm Toolbox.