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DG Research & Innovation of the European Commission developed this guidance as part of the ERA Policy Agenda 2025–2027 and its structural policy "Upscaling knowledge valorisation capacities and activities".
Knowledge valorisation is distinct from dissemination — the public disclosure of results — and from impact, which describes the change that research produces in the world.
Valorisation is the deliberate activity that connects the two: transforming data, know-how, and research outputs into products, services, solutions, and knowledge-based policies that generate social and economic value.
Multidisciplinary research including Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) offers valuable solutions for addressing Europe's societal challenges. By integrating knowledge across disciplines and sectors, it can provide new policy perspectives, human-centred innovations, and business ideas. However, its potential is not always translated into broader societal, economic, and political value, and uptake needs to be accelerated.
The guidance is designed to help R&I projects create greater value from multidisciplinary results, including those involving Social Sciences and Humanities. It is based on a comprehensive analysis of existing best practices and offers 10 practical pathways – from research to human-centred technology, participatory innovation, entrepreneurship, organisational change, evidence-informed policy and more.
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The network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for the European Research Council (ERC), mERCury, has recently published the first edition of the ERC Success Stories from Widening countries. The collection features seven ERC grantees from Malta, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Latvia, Greece and Türkiye who have received Starting, Consolidator,...
Read moreThe selected projects of the 2026 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant call (call deadline 5 November 2025) were published by the ERC Executive Agency. Synergy grant projects consist of minimum two to maximum four researchers or Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams that jointly address ambitious research problems that could...
Read moreThe new European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage (RCH) that kicked off at the end of September has launched its first Joint Transnational Call (JTC): "Foundations for climate-resilient cultural heritage: Assessing and managing impact and risk, dealing with damage and loss". This first call within the RCH Partnership invites research...
Read moreNCP_WIDERA.NET, the WIDERA National Contact Points network, has so far put six projects, funded under the ERA part of the Horizon Europe WIDERA or Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society (Swafs) work programmes, in the spotlight in their ERA Success Stories series. The latest project example is COALESCE Advancing Leadership and Engagement in...
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The Project SeafoodTomorrow is a project that is approved within the call BG-08-2017: Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood.
The three-year SeafoodTomorrow project brings together 34 partners. From Flanders, ILVO takes part in the project.They are responsible for setting up two databases which are the central point of the project to gather all the project data from analysis and assessement. ILVO is also leader of the workpackage dealing with authenticity, traceability and labelling. ILVO is also involved a the workpackage about novel food preparation. And in the managerial part, ILVO is head of the IPC- Intellectual Property Comité.
