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 projects, IMI2 projects, and IMI1 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 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.
The European Commission has also developed several tools to help projects' dissemination and exploitation activities. These include:
- Horizon Dashboard - an intuitive and interactive knowledge platform where you can extract statistics and data on EU research and innovation programmes – sorted by topics, countries, organisations, sectors, as well as individual projects and beneficiaries.
- The Booster - a free-of-charge initiative providing tailored services to boost the dissemination and exploitation of your research results, guiding you and your innovation to the market and the wider world.
- Horizon Results Platform - a public platform that hosts and promotes research results, thereby widening exploitation opportunities. It helps to bridge the gap between research results and generating value for economy and society. You can create your own page to showcase your results, find collaboration opportunities and get inspired by the results of others.
- Innovation Radar - a data-driven method focused on the identification of high-potential innovations and the key innovators behind them in EU-funded research and innovation projects.
- Horizon Standardisation Booster - an initiative that supports European research and innovation projects to valorise results through standardisation, supporting them to contribute to the creation of new standards or the revision of existing standards.
- Open Research Europe Platform - a platform that makes it easy for beneficiaries of European research and innovation projects to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly.
- Research and Innovation success stories - a collection of the most recent success stories from EU-funded research & innovation.