1. WP5- Communication and Dissemination WP Leader: S-com
S-com is an International non-profit association based in Brussels.
It was funded in 2005 and has been working towards improving the role of communication in sustainability and social innovation, in line with the European strategy. S-com operates through participatory approaches and contrasting perspectives from various institutional representatives across the board, including researchers, professional practitioners and NGOs.
In the project we manage the communication activities, organized in the WP5. Internal communication between partners, social media communication and dissemination of the results to an external audience.
Task 5.1 – Implementation of the project portal
Task 5.2 – Creation of the project’s digital identity
Task 5.3 – Match-making platform
Task 5.4 – Dissemination strategy
Task Developing digital information and knowledge base focusing on research cooperation and geographic thematic aspect
Task 5.6- Preparation of promotional material and reports
MERID Final Conference
21/06/2018, Piran

2. Main achievements Task 5.1 – Implementation of the project portal
Task 5.2 – Creation of the project’s digital identity
Task 5.3 – Match-making platform
Task 5.4 – Dissemination strategy
Task Developing digital information and knowledge base focusing on research cooperation and geographic thematic aspect
Task 5.6- Preparation of promotional material and reports
The main achievement of the WP5 have been:
Task 5.1 – Implementation of the project portal
Task 5.2 – Creation of the project’s digital identity
Task 5.3 – Match-making platform
Task 5.4 – Dissemination strategy
Task Developing digital information and knowledge base focusing on research cooperation and geographic thematic aspect
Task 5.6- Preparation of promotional material and reports

3. www.meridproject.eu  online from March 2015
Task 5.1 – Implementation of the project portal
 online from March 2015
The website is the center of Merid project communications
It hosts:
Area news- update information about project and partners activities
Project information: content, deliverables, events, brokerage, contact
Social media channels
Reserved area for partners
Visibility and powerful retention tool
6076 users
page-views: 17800
update 18/05/18

4. Asset in the open dialogue. Impact.
Testo della 4
At the beginning of the project Social media channels, has been implemented. A Facebook page, and a Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Merid started sharing contents on all of them in April 2015.
The objective is to foster dialogue and build connections to outreach other actors and digitally act as a bridge between existing experiences. WP5 will establish synergies with MedSpring Agora in order to maximize the impact.
The critical mass of connections counts over 400 likes on Facebook, more then 350 followers on Twitter and 300 LinkedIn connections that, considered the topic of the project, is a good results.

5. Task 5.2 – Creation of the project’s digital identity
Social media activities and Live twitting
On the Facebook page have been published numerous posts each week, often more than one per day, almost all of them receiving likes therefore showing a certain degree of appreciation. The themes mainly concerned were advancements of MERID-related projects and events, Horizon 2020 policies and contents from other sources.
The twitter account tweeted around 500 tweets until now. During the events was launched an hashtag (such as #MeridConference today) with the aim of gathering all the tweets coming from different accounts regarding the event, with a live-tweeting approach.

6. Task 5.3 – Match-making platform
In the occasion of the brokerage events organized by the project was implemented a Match-Making platform. Its objective is to support the Brockerage Events of the project.
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7. Task 5.5 – Developing public digital information
The quarterly publication will provide the external vision on project and its progress.
Timing M
We developed all the digital information regarding the project:
We published 8 quarterly reports that can be found online on the MERID website. Each of them is structured with and introduction followed by information on the past and future events and deliverables, relevant news and articles and videos of the partners.
(As an example we show you the 8th report which summarizes the main results of the project reached so far.)

8. Task 5.6 – Digital promotional material
Timing M6-M18 -M30.
Output
D.5.3 Promotional material Package 1, 2, 3
Objective:
Increase the visibility of the project.
Infographics
We tried to shape an identity of the MERID project through events and other materials, among which there are the staging materials around you.
Among the action there are:
Printings of MERID roll-ups (for the final conference and the MERID brockerage)
MERID banners
An agenda for the website
Conference booklets
Quaterly publications
3 editions of Merid brochure
Infographics

9. Task 5.6 – Digital promotional material
Video promotional
During the project we decided to involve and interview our partners and other science diplomacy experts, and we publish all that videos on the project website.
as Tanya Dimitrova-Policy Officer at the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission suggested.
The interviews involved:
Dr. George Bonas – Impressions on Tehran
Science Diplomacy
Dr. George Bonas
Luk Van Langehove
Reinaheh Eshraghi
Merid regional event (Beirut)
Chafic Mokbel
Rami M. Ayoubi
Nesreen Ghaddar
Amir Ghadiri – Director of IRAMOT
Youtube channel collect all the interview and promotional video

10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION WEB SITE: http://meridproject.eu/
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