Dissemination and Communication Activities

WP9 with leader: FEHRL

Objectives

• Disseminate the existence of project and results to stakeholders (bridge owners and maintenance operators; scientific community, etc.) using the most effective communication means for each target group
• Produce-related dissemination material (website, leaflet, poster, logo, other.)

Main focus:

Communication with stakeholders

• Press releases - first in August 2015 and second in February 2017
• Two newsletters (March 2016, August 2016)
• Twitter account to be created
• Presentations at events (eg FIRM17 on 7th April, Building up Efficient and Sustainable Transport Infrastructure (BESTInfra 2017) on 21st-22nd September 2017.
• Two workshops are planned

Dissemination of results

• Workshop on “Smart Structural Health Monitoring for Bridge Condition Assessment and Maintenance (M41) 
• Final conference, final press release, publications (results of project), video, brochure and CD demo, field demonstrations 

Task 9.1 – Development of a Dissemination Strategy
Dissemination Plan has been prepared and submitted. Focuses on three stages:

• Awareness-raising (whole duration of the project)
• Communication with stakeholders (July 2015 – March 2018)
• Dissemination of results (September – Dec. 2018)

The Plan describes five main elements

• The dissemination objectives
• The target groups
• The key messages
• The key dissemination tools
• Evaluation and monitoring of dissemination activities

Task 9.2 – Organisation of four project workshops

• 1st workshop to be organised on 8th November 2017

Task 9.3 – SENSKIN Website and User Forum through a Wide Social and Specialised Network

• This website up and running since M3 of the project
• Creation of an external group of experts

Task 9.4 – Presentation of the Project Results to the Public at Large

• SENSKIN LinkedIn Group launched in August 2015

Task 9.5 – Additional Dissemination Activities

• Presentation of SENSKIN at conferences, workshops etc.
  o European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM) 2016, 5-8th July 2016, Bilbao
  o TRA2016, 19 April 2016, Warsaw
  o 6th international conference on Electromechanically Active Polymer (EAP) transducers & artificial muscles, 14–15th June 2016, Copenhagen
  o 19th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, 13–17th June 2016, Munich
  o International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC), 27-29th June 2016, Cambridge
• Submission of papers, articles, newsletters etc.
  o Four articles in FIRM magazine (July 2015, January 2016, August 2016, January 2017)
  o Article in World Highways (December 2015 and February 2017 and ITS (February 2017)
• Production of poster, leaflet, Powerpoint General presentation
  o Two posters (A0 and roll-up) and a leaflet produced
  o Project powerpoint presentation

Task 9.6 – Communication Activities

• Based on the feedback received so far from stakeholders (e.g. responses from the questionnaires, social media), it is clear that the various tools used in the “awareness raising” and “communication with stakeholders’” have been tailored to the various needs of the stakeholders
• Development of user-forum as a list of stakeholders

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