Creative methods to engage Horizon Europe partners
Do you ever feel like you’d rather pull out a tooth (without anaesthesia) than trying once more to get your partners involved in exploitation activities?
You are not alone.
Many Horizon Europe projects struggle to move exploitation beyond a list of publications, conference presentations, and vague promises about future impact. Scientific partners usually focus on research and technical development, and once a result is delivered, the feel lie exploitation is someone else’s responsibility.
But exploitation should not be treated as a box to tick at the end of the project. It is the bridge between your project results and the real-world changes they are expected to create.
In this session, we will reframe exploitation as a collaborative and creative process rather than a legal obligation or administrative burden. We will explore practical ways to engage researchers and partners, turn exploitation into a meaningful discussion, and create ownership around results from the beginning of the project.
Drawing on our experience managing dissemination, communication and exploitation in numerous Horizon Europe projects, we will share practical methods, workshop approaches and ready-to-use resources that can help you activate your consortium and strengthen your impact pathways. Expect hands-on examples, practical tools, and workshop techniques you can immediately adapt to your own projects!
This session will cover:
- Exploitation in Horizon Europe: key concepts, expectations and legal obligations
- Why partners disengage, and how to change the conversation
- Moving beyond scientific publications as the default exploitation route
- Creative workshop methods to engage scientific partners
- How to connect project results, KERs, users, outcomes and impact
- Linking exploitation with IPR and innovation thinking
- Practical tools and templates to facilitate exploitation discussions
- Examples and lessons learned from real Horizon Europe projects
Who should attend?
This webinar is ideal for:
- Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation leaders;
- Project coordinators and managers;
- Researchers and WP leaders;
- Research support and grant office staff;
- Anyone involved in Horizon Europe proposal writing or implementation;
Why Europa Media?
Europa Media is Europe’s leading provider of practical training courses on EU’s research and innovation programmes. We have 25+ years of experience in developing and implementing projects under the Framework Programmes. Under Horizon 2020, we were involved successfully in over 30 projects, coordinating six of them. Under Horizon Europe, we have been involved in 16 collaborative projects, coordinating or co-coordinating four of them. Europa Media’s trainers are actual project managers, coordinators, and financial administrators of these projects, sharing their stories and providing you with hands-on tips based on their everyday experience. For the past 20 years, they have been supporting all the major institutions as well as several of the NCPs in the Member States and countries associated to the Framework Programmes. This event, as always, has been designed based on our direct hands-on experience with EU research and innovation proposals and is, therefore, 100% practice-driven. Our practical approach has attracted over 10,000 participants from all over the world in the past 20+ years. Read more about our projects here.