D10.4: Interim report on communication and dissemination activities

About this document Report on the conducted communication and dissemination activities with an update of the communication and dissemination plan. Work package in charge WP10 Executive summary This deliverable updates the nextGEMS project communication and dissemination plan and details activities that have been done in the first half of the project. The main objective of the communication and dissemination activities is to provide regular project communication and dissemination targeting various audiences, from the scientific community to many societal actor groups, as the first step towards a more profound engagement with stakeholders and future users of project results. Besides using standard science communication approaches, such as peer-reviewed articles, participation at conferences, social media, and the project website, nextGEMS also explores and applies innovative communication and dissemination approaches and tools. These include Vlogs (the video communication), science explainers, and storylines. The communication and dissemination activities are part of WP10 and the Storms & Society theme, and the main two partners responsible for its implementation are Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Latest Thinking (LT). However, the activities are deployed in close collaboration with all consortium members and project participants. Conclusion & Results The project communication and dissemination activities follow the principles of visibility, transparency, plurality, and usability. This includes ensuring visibility of the project and its outcomes for a wide range of stakeholder circles; being transparent on the evolution of the nextGEMS scientific production; plurality in the perspectives included and reached with the different communication and dissemination products; and usability by tailoring the scientific outputs with and for different stakeholder groups and using communication approaches for starting knowledge coproduction. Particularly interesting are nextGEMS’s three innovative communication and engagement approaches: videos, science explainers, and storylines. Developing four different types of videos, nextGEMS tailors them to all six stakeholder groups targeted by the project. So far, the project has produced 17 videos. Already becoming a leitmotif and recognisable mark of nextGEMS, these short, visually appealing, videos prepared in an accessible language are considered extremely powerful communication tools, that can be easily disseminated through social media, showcased at events, or distributed in other ways. The next innovative communication tool is science explainers which show the driving ideas and progress from nextGEMS scientists in plain language and different formats. Finally, an important approach for disseminating project outcomes will be through storylines. The co-exploration and co-design activities have already started for the two project storylines, as detailed in D10.3.