1
Valorisation Conference Competitive advantage
-the business case for e-learning
Dissemination and Exploitationof Project
Results

• Budapest, Hungary 12 May, 2006
• Aristides CLADES
• European Commission DG Education and Culture
• Dissemination and Exploitation of Results

2
Dissemination and Exploitation of Results

• Definition and Relevance
• Exploitation of programme results 2000-2006
• LdV experience (transfer monitoring conference)
• Other EU level experiences (Socrates, Youth )
• 3. Lifelong Learning in future a new generation
  of programmes

3
Definition

• Dissemination and exploitation of project
  results, products, outcomes
• with a view to optimising their value
• enhancing their impact
• integrating them into systems and practices at
  local, regional, sectoral, national and European
  level (to achieve sustainability)
• User needs taken into consideration from the
  outset
• Also known as valorisation
• Much more than dissemination alone

4
Why is it important?

• Sustainability of project results
• Capitalization on investments
• Transferring results to transform systems and
  practices
• Avoid re-inventing the wheel
• Enhanced impact of programmes and projects
• Reduced timescales for policy innovation
• Feeding the political processes (bridge between
  policy and implementation)

5
Why valorisation-exploitation- Verwertung?

• It is a matter of prime importance that results
  of programmes are not confined to the archives,
  that project outcomes find their way into
  mainstream practice and that the lessons of the
  programme are transferred into policy
  development.

6
Steps

• Dissemination general information, brochures,
  website, conferences, presentation of results
• Exploitation focus on new target groups, new
  sectors, needs of beneficiaries, testing,
  adaptation, transfer, integration into systems

7
Exploitation of results (2000 - 2006)

• Implementation of European Community vocational
  training policy
• Laboratory of innovation in the field of Life
  Long Learning (LLL)

8
Exploitation of results (2000-2006) the earlier
days

• Users needs not taken into account during project
  devleopment
• Exploitation at project end too late
• Reduced impact
• Some innovative results but no customers lined up

• No user involvement
• No exploitation
• Dissemination only at the end

9
LdV experience

• LdV II (2000-2006) valorisation mentioned but
• -ex-post 2000-2002
• -ex-ante on a voluntary basis 2003-2004
• -ex-ante compulsory 2005-2006
• after 2006 Ex-ante and Compulsory for all
  programmes (not only LdV)

10
Basic requirements for projects

• Matching offer and demand
• Needs analysis
• Projects respond to identified, emerging,
  potential needs

11
Instruments to support exploitation of results
2003 - 2005 (ex-post, ex-ante)

• Thematic Monitoring Events (ex-ante) to exchange
  experience, strengthen the networking between
  projects, practitioners and decision makers
• Transfer of Innovation (ex-post) - 3 calls in
  2003/2004, 22 results transferred to 31
  countries

12
and Valorisation Conferences

• Organisation of events (conferences, seminars
  and linked exhibitions) bringing together
  succesful promoters and potential users to
  promote the dissemination and exploitation (ie
  valorisation) of innovative LdV products and
  processes

13
Valorisation Conferences

• 3 calls for proposals
• /- 40 conferences (2004-2006)
• the lessons
• the particular role of regions

14
Actual approach (2005-2006)
Dissemination
Exploitation

• Interactivity between promoters users
• Valorisation plan from the start of the project
• Very successful

Innovative work Users
Promoters

15
Dissemination and exploitation a New Challenge
for all DG EACs programmes

• Mandatory in the Leonardo da Vinci Programme
• Socrates General call for proposals 2006
  expresses expectation that transnational projects
  consider valorisation activities
• Requirement in the integrated action programme
  for cooperation in the field of lifelong learning
  - key activity exploitation and transfer of good
  project results
• Opportunity in programmes such as culture, youth,
  citizenship

16
Ex-ante exploitation requires active strategy,
participatory process

• from the project design stage
• close monitoring of its implementation throughout
  the entire life cycle of the project
• integration of potential users from the
  beginning, ongoing and substantial interaction
  between partners and users with continuous
  feedback

17
Other EU level experiences

• Socrates
• Grundvig
• Erasmus
• Comenius
• Lingua
• Equal
• FSE
• Other EU/national/regional programmes

18
New LLL programme Proposed structure
19
Exploitation of Results in the new Lifelong
Learning programme (2007-13)

• Transversal measure (Key Activity 4)
• Ex-ante and compulsory for all education and
  training programmes

20
KA4 A transversal measure for dissemination and
exploitation of results

• Specific horizontal measure for the dissemination
  and exploitation of results for the new LLL
  programme.