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CORPUS project

The aim of CORPUS is to experiment and develop new integrative modalities of linking research results to policy-making through 'secondary exploitation' of existing research.
The project focuses on the policy issue of ‘sustainable consumption’ which is of great importance in the current and future strategic development of the EU. It is included, for instance, in the re-launched Lisbon Strategy and is one of the key challenges of renewed EU SDS. Action Plans on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) have been published in a number of Member States and recently on EU level, as well.
The objectives of the project are:
  • Development and testing of a knowledge web-platform with in-built incentives attracting and matching researchers’ and policy-makers’ interests in knowledge exchange alike.
  • Development and testing of interactive tools of knowledge brokerage within different dialogue-oriented formats, such as scenario workshops and mapping exercises.
  • Initiation of learning processes among researchers and policy-makers involved in the specific trials in order to trigger self-sustaining processes of knowledge brokerage and community building.
  • Assessment of the capabilities and shortcomings of the knowledge brokerage tools under consideration in order to arrive at general recommendations for future methodologies aimed to enhance the connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable development.
More at: www.scp-knowledge.eu .


Last updated by Lise Søstrøm 24/04/2012