The work carried out in the project has been implemented according to three main tasks: 1. assessment of the direct impacts of the Innovation Union Commitments in terms of improving the performances of the EU national innovation systems (WP1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), 2. advancement in the integration of the findings (WP9) and calibration of the NEMESIS model (WP10) and 3. dissemination of the results (WP11).
Concerning dissemination of results, the following activities have been carried out:
• WP11 - Management, Dissemination, Exploitation & Communication. This WP has disseminated the results of the projects. The following activities for the dissemination and exploitation of the project results have been organized and managed:
1)Project meeting and review meeting
Five project meetings, of which three with the participation of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and SC (Stakeholder Committee) members have been held. During the SAC and SC meetings, the project partners have presented the scientific approach of the project and the expectations of the SAC members have been discussed. Each meeting has had a structure as follows:
•A summary of IU commitments under its WP;
•The state of implementation;
•The main findings.
Three review meetings with external experts nominated by the European Commission were held, where the partners have provided detailed presentations of the activities carried out under each WP and the achieved and planned activities.
2)Validation workshop
The aim of the I3U Validation Workshop was to present to EC policy officers the preliminary research results achieved in I3U, with particular attention to the methodological approach adopted to assess each commitment and its validation, and to elicit additional insights with particular reference to the availability of data and information not acquired so far by the project team.
3)Project Final Conference
The Final Conference has presented and explained the project’s results, evaluating how successful the Innovation Union’s commitments have been, and potential ways to address the challenges and gaps that still exist.
4)Project Newsletters
The Project Newsletters (4) have been posted on the project website and distributed to about 500 individual contacts for each newsletter. The content of the newsletters included information on the partners’ dissemination efforts, insights on the project results, including how the commitments can be inserted into the NEMESIS model and how sharing information and resources impact research and innovation in Europe.
5)Project Website
The project Website ( http://www.i3u-innovationunion.eu/ ) with regularly updated contents, Deliverables, news and project material has supported the project activities from the outset.
6)Publications in scientific journals and participation to conferences
The exploitation of I3U results has been carried out with about 60 among books, papers, and presentations from project partners, academia and research members.
