D3.4: Report on TIME4CS Knowledge Transfer from Front-Runners to Implementers

The current document, titled ’Report on TIME4CS Knowledge Transfer from Front-Runners to Implementers’, has been developed within the framework of the TIME4CS project which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 101006201. 

The purpose of this Deliverable is to report on the knowledge transfer activities that were organised under Task 3.2. This task ensured the direct and continuous communication and active knowledge transfer and brokerage going from Front-Runners (FRs) to Implementers. To do so, each FR – namely Aarhus University (AU), University College London (UCL), and Competence Center Citizen Science Zurich (CC-CS) – organised one workshop covering one (in the case of CC-CS two) of the four Intervention Areas (IAs). Representatives of each implementing Research Performing Organisation (RPO) attended these workshops. Due to Covid-19 restrictions these workshops were held virtually via Zoom. The three workshops were the following ones:

·        1. Workshop: IA Education & Awareness, led by AU on Tuesday, October 19^th, 12–2pm CEST

·        2. Workshop: IA Research, led by UCL on Wednesday, October 27^th, 12–2pm CEST

·        3. Workshop: IA Infrastructure & IA Policy, led by CC-CS on Wednesday, November 3^rd, 12–2pm CEST

These workshops are seen as sort of kick-off of further support from FRs for the Implementers throughout the project activities, ensuring Implementers to maintain privileged contacts with and access to the FR’s know-how, lessons learned and success factors to enhance Implementers’ capacity based on their concrete needs. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, the TIME4CS consortium decided to hold the workshops online (it was originally planned as one full day workshops) and split it into three sessions.