Dissemination means sharing research results with people who can best make use of them: the scientific community, industry, commercial players, civil society, and policymakers. This includes publishing results in scientific journals and at scientific conferences and sharing data in an open and reusable format, ensuring that results reach a broad audience, including scientific, industrial, and general public communities.
Dissemination is a key responsibility for all IHI and Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) projects. As outlined in the Grant Agreements, beneficiaries are required to make knowledge and project results publicly accessible at the earliest opportunity. This includes publishing results in scientific journals and at scientific conferences and sharing data in an open and reusable format, ensuring that results reach a broad audience, including scientific, industrial, and general public communities.
We have created guidelines on dissemination - for IHI and IMI2 projects. These provide an overview of the rules related to the dissemination of results that apply to each programme, together with tips and links to help you prepare and report on dissemination activities.
All dissemination activities related to IHI and IMI projects (e.g., articles, websites, posters, press releases, and social media) must:
- Acknowledge the support received from IHI or IMI using the wording specified in the dissemination guide for your programme
- Display the logo of the programme, the programme partners and (if relevant) IMI2 Associated Partners and IHI contributing partners
- Include a disclaimer
More information on the elements can be found in the project communication guides for each programme.
The IHI Programme Office aids dissemination through:
- the IHI website via the project factsheets, in our newsroom, newsletter, and the Consolidated Annual Activity Report;
- social media platforms, such as LinkedIn;
- promotional materials (e.g., brochures, videos);
- at events.
More broadly, IHI project outputs are captured in our Key Performance Indicators which are important for promoting the performance of the programmes. The IHI Programme Office will also work actively to raise your visibility within the European institutions by proposing your project for relevant EU events, reports, articles and briefings.
The European Commission has developed several free-of-charge dissemination tools and services to help your project’s dissemination activities.
The Booster
Whether your project is funded under IMI or IHI, and whether it is ongoing or closed, you can benefit from the European Commission funded Booster until 2028.
The Booster offers two core services: dissemination support and go-to-market support, plus four add-on services (networking, portfolio analysis, public intellectual assets management and public speaking coaching) that can be requested in addition to the Booster's core services.
By applying to the dissemination support service, you will receive expert, tailor-made support and training, free of charge, to:
- assess and improve your dissemination plan;
- identify how to target the right audiences for your project by profiling relevant stakeholders, and prioritising them by market context, drivers, barriers, and reach;
- identify the best dissemination methods and channels for your project.
The Booster's services are available for both single projects and project clusters.
Open Research Europe Platform
The Open Research Europe Platform is an open access platform for the publication of research stemming from European Commission funding, including IMI and IHI programmes. The platform is not a repository.
It covers all commonly known services of scholarly publishing, with open science features and their added benefits: articles that pass a pre-publication check are published rapidly as a preprint (and cannot be published elsewhere), are immediately open, and undergo an invited and transparent peer review process. Articles receive a digital footprint and are assigned industry-standard open metadata and open licenses in order to ensure that they can easily be discovered and cited.
Open Research Europe operates under a continuous publication schedule, and enables publishing post grant.
CORDIS
The European Commission promotes the work of EU-funded projects through CORDIS, by:
- publishing project information submitted through the Funding & Tenders Portal on its platform, such as the project factsheet, public deliverables, and publishable report summaries;
- providing results packs and “Results-in-Brief” documents to highlight key findings.