ADVAGEN: D8.4. Intermediate Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation Including Communication Activities

In order to maximise the visibility of the ADVAGEN project, as well as the wide promotion of its results, the partners have hereby drafted a plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities (abbreviated as DEC plan in the following). This document will be the reference for ADVAGEN partners for planning the activities and evaluating the impact of communication and dissemination activities, as well as exploitation ones. Such a plan will be updated and adjusted as the project progresses. In particular, this deliverable (D8.4) is the update of D8.1 (M6) submitted and approved earlier, and D8.5 at M48 will be the final one. Yet, modifications can be carried out more regularly depending on the results of the initial communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities. The main purpose of this DEC plan is to ensure that the project research and results are widely disseminated to the appropriate target audiences, at appropriate times along the project lifetime, via appropriate methods, and that those who can contribute to the development, evaluation, uptake, and exploitation of the ADVAGEN project results can be identified and encouraged to interact with the project on a regular and systematic basis. Furthermore, this document describes the methodology that will be used for the definition of the Exploitation plans for the KERs (T8.3) as well as the networking activities (T8.4). For the development of the Exploitation plans, as a first step, the KERs will be further elaborated during the project term. During the General Assembly (GA) meetings, TechConcepts has already organized two workshops, first for team building while the second for the identification of unforeseen KERs and classification of all the KERs. Such classifications includes further detailing of the foreseen and unforeseen KERs, including the identification of the exploitation potential of each KER (scientific, societal, commercial and/or regulatory). Finally, this document will provide an update of the networking and clustering activites carried out within the project so far.