Orchestrating collaborative projects: Inside ICT networks in Horizon 2020

Enger, Simen G.; Gulbrandsen, Magnus

doi:10.1093/scipol/scaa021

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“…However, related actions to disseminate and exploit project outcomes have mostly led to the development of scientific publications or patents rather than the transfer to practice [7,8]. Discussions on the ownership of results of European Framework Program (FP) projects show that academics want to publish as much as they can and industry partners mostly prefer to fill time-consuming patents [9]. Therefore, why not bring both actors together to develop a standard for the projects' tangible results?…”

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A Good Practice for Integrating Stakeholders through Standardization—The Case of the Smart Mature Resilience Project

2021

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A priority must be made on making cities more resilient against crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic to help plan for an uncertain future. However, due to the insufficient transfer of knowledge from, among others, research projects to cities, they are often unaware of the resilience tools available as well as possible standardization activities to foster the integration of relevant stakeholders. To address this issue, this paper analyzes the use of standards and the contribution to standardization in a multi-case study of nine European Framework Program projects and with the Smart Mature Resilience (SMR) project, a more in-depth case study. SMR integrated several European cities in its co-creative approach for developing city resilience tools and the related standards series CWA 17300 on ‘City Resilience Development’. Furthermore, the paper defines five steps for integrating standardization in research projects with a focus on (city) resilience and shows the benefits of the standardization process for fostering the engagement of relevant stakeholders.

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A Good Practice for Integrating Stakeholders through Standardization—The Case of the Smart Mature Resilience Project

2021

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“…The network coordination theory presents an effective approach to streamlining business processes within the networks of cooperating organizations, including supply networks [103]. In the literature, the coordinator is indicated, inter alia, as a key link in the marketing communication system of organizations cooperating in the region and country [104], an entity connecting the activities of cluster participants [105], as well as a network orchestrator [106], i.e., an entity combining the competences of various organizations for the implementation of network tasks, creating added value and generating innovative solutions. The coordinating function is also assigned to the flagship companies of the network [107].…”

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Stakeholders of the Multimodal Freight Transport Ecosystem in Polish–Czech–Slovak Cross-Border Area

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The research on the multimodal transport development within the cross-border area is a result of identified gaps in the system solutions and cooperation between stakeholders of three countries: Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Freight transport is an especially complex problem. It is an area that is not comprehensively recognized in the context of cross-border cooperation. The results of the research presented in this paper are the continuation of analyses performed within the scope of the international project framework TRANS TRITIA. At the moment, transport policy assumes the struggle for the utilization of multimodality within freight transport. This is justified by the need to reduce external transport costs. At the same time, this necessitates actions of a technical, organizational, and legislation nature as well as cooperation between stakeholders. The multimodal transport ecosystem is a vision of the transport within cross-border areas that assumes the increase in the flow dynamics within the multimodal transport. The main goal of this paper was the stakeholders’ analysis and identification of their roles in the ecosystem of multimodal freight transport within the Polish–Czech–Slovak cross-border area. The conceptualization of the multimodal freight transport ecosystem was essential to achieving the objective. To achieve the objective, a stakeholder analysis has been performed based on expert research. As a result of the research, organizational projects have been proposed to strengthen the idea of the coevolution of the multimodal transport ecosystem. The key conclusion from the performed research is the declaration that a holistic view of the multimodal transport ecosystem necessitates the appointment of a coordinator who will synchronize knowledge, business, and innovation ecosystems.

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“…With the aim to align the different countries under this common transformative vision, participation and access to this funding should be guaranteed and promoted by the research programmes to all countries especially those less involved in agroecology or having different agricultural goals or interests. Previous studies based on network theory ( Enger & Gulbrandsen, 2020 ; Protogerou et al , 2013 ) reported that few countries control access to the projects and related resources within European Framework programmes. An investigation of the degree of involvement of the different countries in European research projects related to agroecology as well as their networking and relations can help to highlight useful insights for the funders’ perspective.…”

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Agroecology research in Europe funded by European and transnational programmes: current status and perspectives

Iocola¹,

Ciaccia²,

Colombo³

et al. 2023

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Background: Redesigning the agri-food system through agroecology represents a common ambition among practitioners, activists and scholars to achieve environmental and socio-economic sustainability. Research can have a main role to support this path. Although it seems that there is a gradual increasing body of agroecology research, it clearly lacks good knowledge about this. The main objective of this study was therefore to map research projects related to agroecology in Europe with the aim to characterize European research in terms of implementation of agroecology elements, identify needs for future cross collaboration between countries and networks, and support the setting up of appropriate research agendas fostering agroecology research in Europe. Methods: A desktop research with different databases related to European and transnational funding programmes was carried out to identify funded research projects involved in agroecology. The obtained projects were used to perform a social network analysis. Furthermore, two surveys were conducted, one with coordinators of identified projects and a second one for researchers engaged in agroecology. Results: Our study highlighted a predominant trajectory of agroecology research prone to the transformation of the agri-food system. France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom were the most active countries engaged in agroecology research. In all surveys, issues related to efficiency improvement, synergies strengthening, local economy development, and co-creation and sharing of knowledge were the most implemented to support agri-food transformation. Transdisciplinary approaches were mainly addressed by European projects. Surveys reported a limited participation of value chain actors, while researchers, farmers, and their associations were the most involved. Survey respondents suggested to increase project duration and introduce flexibility methods to modulate research actions according to dynamic of the contexts. Conclusion: On the basis of the results, some policy recommendations were provided to fostering agroecology research in Europe and its contribution for transformation of agri-foods systems.

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Orchestrating collaborative projects: Inside ICT networks in Horizon 2020

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

A Good Practice for Integrating Stakeholders through Standardization—The Case of the Smart Mature Resilience Project

A Good Practice for Integrating Stakeholders through Standardization—The Case of the Smart Mature Resilience Project

Stakeholders of the Multimodal Freight Transport Ecosystem in Polish–Czech–Slovak Cross-Border Area

Agroecology research in Europe funded by European and transnational programmes: current status and perspectives

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