Dialogue and dissemination

A good and fruitful dialogue engages both internal and external communication of the Network. An effective dissemination
requires an excellent knowledge management inside the Network together with an exquisite overview and understanding
of the audience.

As Wikipedia indicates, “knowledge management comprises a range of practices used by organisations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning.” CINEFOGO has set up several tools to support the knowledge accumulation, sharing and dissemination. The web portal www.cinefogo.org, represents the core learning & dialogue platform of the
Network. This platform is supported by the Activity reporting tool interface allowing an upload of knowledge produced and shared within the WPs activities.

Knowledge production and accumulation are the first and necessary steps to the knowledge dissemination. It should reach
all the relevant audiences – or target groups. Spread of Excellence (SoE) Office has already mapped out related projects, networks, institutions and initiatives – the stakeholders which should get actively involved in the activities of the Network. A constantly amplified
list of their web links is accessible at http://www.cinefogo.org/learningdialogue/ related-projects-networks.

But there are more target groups the Network needs to reach: policy-makers, journalists, civil society activists, doctoral students as well as unorganised citizens and particular groups, such as women, youth or migrants should be targeted apart of academics. How to do it?

TRANSAACT Trainings

The trainings welcome the Work package responsibles for the Spread of Excellence, interested CINEFOGO members but also representatives of related projects and networks and generally the project stakeholders – or target groups.

TRANSAACT Training should enhance the ability of sharing knowledge with different target groups and get them involved in the debate on civil society, governance and European citizenship issues. Participants will learn how to communicate research findings in a policy brief, memorandum or issue paper, how to organize a research-based debate which would actively involve stakeholders and attract media or how to publish a savoury press release.

First training will take place the 23^rd-27^th September 2007 in Prague (Czechia), second training is planned for June 2008.
More at http://www.cinefogo.org/learningdialogue/ transaact/transaact-training.

SoE Corner at the Midterm conference

One of the SoE programme outcomes which will be presented at the SoE Corner of the Midterm conference in June 2007 is the European Student Corner for civil society research. This virtual corner at www.civilsociety.se is an easy way for students to find relevant and regularly updated information and knowledge about research and teaching in the field of civil society and third sector.

Databases

A general Outcomes Database will be launched in June 2007. It will make available the project outcomes to wider public and simplify activity reporting.

CINEFOGO is also partner of the IConnectEU project, www.iconnecteu.org, aiming at creating a generic infrastructure for joint dissemination activities across thematically related projects.