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Publishable reports for EU projects

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The EU guidelines state that:

The Publishable final activity report for EU consortia is submitted at the same time as the last Periodic activity report. In  its final form it cumulates and summarises the  activities and results over the full duration of the project. It is of suitable quality to enable direct publication by the Commission. While not excluding technical language, it should be broadly comprehensible to an interested general reader.

As the name suggests, publishable reports are …well, published online by the EU commission. Amongst the many mandatory documents of an EU project, the final publishable activity report stands out as a communication product addressed to the layperson.

 

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In practice, the final publishable activity report is the only document that will certainly survive in the public space after the end of the project. Try Googling any expired EU project and you will probably stumble upon its final publishable report as the most prominent page available for public information. A concise, well-written report is therefore the best way to highlight the result of a project and account for the EU taxpayers’ money.

 

As part of my communication activity, I produce final reports for EU projects. With my help and a minor investment, EU project managers can outsource the reporting workload and obtain an engaging and effective summary of the entire scientific work and results.

 

As a bonus, I can enrich documents with state-of-the-art graphics that highlight the collaborative effort of a consortium and its bibliometric output.

 

 

How do you visualize scientific collaborations?

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Multi-centre projects—such as EU framework consortia—are expected to create strong interactions between different groups. How can we evaluate and visualise the collaborative effort in a clear, understandable way?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a graphic can illustrate scientific interactions with amazing clarity. See, for example, the picture below, which I made for the Publishable Final Report of an EU consortium.

 

The graph is based on a sophisticated analysis of 116 peer-reviewed publications originated from the consortium. Principal investigators (PIs) from the consortium are represented as red balls, whereas all other co-authors are represented as blue balls. Authors who published at least one paper together are connected by a line. In this way, it’s easy to visualise the interconnection between groups that have worked together. In our figure, a significant number of PIs have co-authored one or more papers (red lines) and are part of a significant co-publishing network, which indicates a high level of collaboration.

Even without looking at the underlying data, non-technical readers can get the correct idea that the consortium established fruitful scientific collaborations.

I am proficient with advanced bibliometric tools for measuring and visualising scientific publications and collaborations. Using these powerful analyses, I provide my clients with useful tools for strategic planning and evaluation and with self-explaining data for their reports.