EEA and Norway Grants Results and Data Portal Eva Þóra Karlsdóttir – Communication Unit EFTA Financial Mechanism Office ESF EVALUATION PARTNERSHIP MEETING 18.02.2019 Jóhanna Aspar – Grants Management Systems Unit

https://data.eeagrants.org

Results and Data Portal Technical project

Project timeline and vendor selection From idea to launch January 2016 Request received Preparation for business case started June 2016 Project approved Tender preparation started October 2016 Tender published December 2016 Contract signed Design phase started March 2017 Design approved Development started November 2017 Portal launched

Our key requirements Allow users to search and filter data As presented in the RfP Allow users to search and filter data Allow users to visualize data using charts, maps, tables and infographics Allow users to share and embed search results in other web pages Allow users to interactively explore the data through the visualization component using pop up’s with statistics, links and images as well as drill through between visualization levels Include links to detailed pages within the eeagrants.org website Support all major web browsers, including full functionality on mobile devices.

Our data Data sources Grants Management System database Data sources and data preparation Data sources Grants Management System database eeagrants.org website Static tables, manually prepared Data selection Completeness vs. Clarity Relationship between objects for drill down and comparison Data preparation Rewording Supplementing Grouping Aligning

Design phase Focusing on data analyses and visualization Objective: Enhance the visual presentation and data discovery possibilities on the results data to the general public During the design phase we worked with the vendor on answering: How to create user journeys from our data? Which are the possible starting points? Can we tell if the users reach their destination? What are the possible perspectives for the users to drilldown? What insights do we want the user to have on each type of content? What insights do we want the user to have for comparison? What type of visualization to we want to use? etc…

Looking back Overall design and functionality Main challenges & accomplishments Overall design and functionality Geographical display of bilateral partnerships Geographical display of project in beneficiary states Integration of project news from eeagrants.org website including a picture Mobile device compliance Data preparation and harmonization New vendor, Eau de Web, proved to be very competent and professional. Instrumental for the success of the project.

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