Results of the second cycle regional workshops (work package 5)
Within this work package, the mountain.TRIP products were presented at workshops conducted in national languages in Austria, Spain, Poland and Romania, in May and June 2011. Each event was dedicated to the presentation of the mountain.TRIP portal and mountain.PROJECTS database and also one out of four regional products. Content, quality and relevance of the products for practitioners from the regions were evaluated during the workshops. The evaluation presented in the report is based on focus group interviews, discussions with participants and general experiences from the workshops.
In November 2010 practitioners and their organisations were convened in Brussels to discuss communication options to share relevant EU research results with targeted groups of mountain practitioners. Prior to the workshop four information strategies have been developed, each targeting a specific group of mountain practitioners and their potential needs for information. Participants’ feedback during the workshop took the form of testing and validating these information strategies; checking their suitability with regard to the target group; identifying strengths and weaknesses and creating new ideas on how the information strategies of the mountain.TRIP project can be improved.
As we are living in an information society where information and communication technologies became indispensible, modern technologies are widely available and the importance of the internet is growing. One of the working hypothesis of the mountain.TRIP project was that the use of modern information and communication tools to retrieve information for the professional life is gaining importance as well – such as online videos, internet based social networks, or podcasts.
But this hypothesis has to be revised: the results of the mountain.TRIP survey show that those modern tools are currently not that much used by the mountain.TRIP target groups.
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Out of a 110 identified projects from the CORDIS databis by the European Commission, the mountain.TRIP project team has processed results for 54 projects of them. Many websites were lost, most of the project databases were outdated and reports disappeared. mountain.TRIP compiled a database to present an overview of the research offer in European mountains. The future challenge of the EU-funded project mountain.TRIP will be to transform the available results into formats easily digestible by people working on the ground.
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