Contract no. 633838

PROVIDE

PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry

Call identifier: H2020-ISIB-2014-2; Topic: ISIB-01-2014

Funding scheme: Research and Innovation Action (RIA)

Deliverable 6.2 PROVIDE toolbox - Specifications

Final Version: 31.08.2018

Organisation name of lead beneficiary for this deliverable:

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

Main authors: Ingo Zasada, Fee-Nanett Trau, Kati Häfner, Dirk Pohle, Annette Piorr

(with contributions from all PROVIDE partners)

Project funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 Programme (2014- 2020)

Dissemination Level

PU Public X

PP Restricted to other programme participants (Including the Commission Services)

RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (Including the Commission Services)

CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (Including the Commission Services)

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Content

1 Summary ........................................................................................................................... 3

2 Objective ........................................................................................................................... 4

3 Toolbox Development Process ........................................................................................ 4

4 Toolbox Structure and Functions ..................................................................................... 5

4.1 General Structure .............................................................................................................. 5

4.2 Start Page & Functions ...................................................................................................... 6

4.3 Economic Valuation ........................................................................................................... 7

4.4 Governance Solutions and Mechanisms .......................................................................... 8

4.5 Communication of Regional Case Study Results (Problem, Analysis, Solution) .......... 10

4.6 Inventory, Hot Spots and Spatial Significance of Public Goods .................................... 11

5 Illustrative Approach ...................................................................................................... 11

5.1 Icons, Graphical Abstracts, Audio-visual Material ........................................................ 11

6 Stakeholder Portal and Interactivity .............................................................................. 12

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1 Summary

Responding to the objective 5 of the project, WP6 results are (1) to investigate the state of the art

in the field of policy toolbox development, (2) surveying experiences in toolbox development from

previous European research projects, (3) conducting a structured stakeholder participation process

(about demand and requirements of a policy toolbox), (4) developing a PROVIDE toolbox concept

(including structure, form and content of the information to be provided), (5) to implement and

programme of the online toolbox to be openly accessible as well as (6) enabling a “life after

PROVIDE” of the policy toolbox. The development process of the toolbox in PROVIDE is structured

into three development phases over the whole project lifetime and beyond: 1. Conceptual and

Development Phase; 2. Implementation Phase; 3. Application Phase. This deliverable report 6.2

provides insights into the specifications of the PROVIDE toolbox, which is the result of the

Application Phase.

The core result is the development online policy toolbox, which facilitates the knowledge transfer

process from the PROVIDE project research results into policy-relevant information for policy-

makers and stakeholder at different policy levels (EU and regional level). The URL of the toolbox is

http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/

The toolbox consists of 8 main elements, which have been developed with contributions by

different project partners: (1) Stakeholder portal (with all 13 case study leaders): include written

and visual documentation of the stakeholder workshops, audio-visual material in national language

and partly interactive discussion forums; (2) EU-wide mapping tool (with partner VU), including 12

data layers on different public goods as well as linkage to the spatial location of the case study areas

of the EU-research projects CLAIM, PROVIDE and PEGASUS; (4) Case study region documentation

(with all 13 case study leaders): include region descriptions, pictures, local maps and summaries of

the PG demand and supply and governance analysis; (5) Public goods (with partner BOKU):

Overview and descriptions of five groups of public goods and linkage to individual case study

results; (6) Valuation (with partner UCO): Overview and descriptions of five groups of valuation

methods and linkage to individual case study results; (7) Governance (with partner BOKU):

Overview and descriptions of five groups of governance mechanisms and linkage to individual case

study results; (8) Linkages to other relevant information sources; (8) Large collection and structured

application of social media information (Twitter) in different positions in the tool: in case study

region documentation and public goods overview (with all 13 case study leaders)

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2 Objective

The conceptual design and functional implementation of the toolbox will be task of the WP leader

ZALF. Planned is a web based toolbox, focusing on inventory/mapping, methods and mechanisms

(policy options, governance solutions, best practices for service models, win-win solutions, etc.)

offering different “entrance doors” as staring points to enter the knowledge support system, e.g.

through the selection of (1) key target public goods; (2) problems, conflicting situations, synergy

situations; (3) search for thematic maps, hot spots; (4) impacts of intensive production by area; (5)

policies or policy questions and mechanisms multi-level governance solutions and

recommendations; and (6) method tool box

3 Toolbox Development Process

The stakeholder and end-user oriented development process has been in detail described in

PROVIDE Deliverable Report 6.1. Figure 1 provides an overview of the process.

Figure 1. Toolbox Development Process.

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As a result, a diversity of demand and requirement towards the formats and the functionality of the

toolbox have been formulated (see Figure 2).

Figure 2. Stakeholder Demands and responding Toolbox / Platform Elements.

4 Toolbox Structure and Functions

4.1 General Structure

Based on the stakeholder demands, the core idea of the PROVIDE Toolbox is to provide policy and

practice-relevant information at European and regional level (see Figure 3). We have further

incorporated a number of cross-cutting policy-issues, including public goods (descriptions),

economic valuation, governance mechanisms and a mapping tool. Further specific attention is paid

to regional and EU level stakeholder through the establishment of a stakeholder platform.

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Figure 3. General Structure of the PROVIDE Toolbox.

4.2 Start Page & Functions

Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/

Figure 4. PROVIDE Toolbox Start Page with Functionalities.

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4.3 Economic Valuation

Structured collection and overview of PG demand & supply valuation (see Figure 5)

Generalisation of regional results, determinants, benefit transfer

Repository of economic valuation methods with short descriptions and overview of

respective studies

Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/valuation/

Figure 5. Structured collection and overview of PG demand & supply valuation.

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Figure 6 & 7. Examples of a result representation for a PG demand (UK, ES).

4.4 Governance Solutions and Mechanisms

Repository of governance solutions and mechanisms with short descriptions and overview

of respective studies (see Figure 8)

Potential success or trade-offs of the most promising governance strategies, enabling

factors and barriers for uptake; Suitable combination of GMs

Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/governance-mechanisms/

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Figure 8. Repository of governance solutions and mechanisms

Figure 9 & 10. Examples of a result representation for a PG supply (EE, DE).

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4.5 Communication of Regional Case Study Results (Problem, Analysis,

Solution)

Figure 11. Examples of a regional case study presentation (AT); Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/case-study-regions/marchfeld-at/

Case study photos

Right hand side: Twitter feed

Case study description

Mapping of the spatial context

Public good issue description

Valuation results

Governance analysis results

Link to stakeholder portal

Infobox responsible researchers

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4.6 Inventory, Hot Spots and Spatial Significance of Public Goods

The mapping tool as part of the PROVIDE toolbox contains 15 spatial raster data layers representing

indicators for public goods with a <1 km resolution. It further contains indication and links to case

studies of the PROVIDE, PEGASUS and CLAIM research projects.

Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/maps/

Figure 12. Graphical user interface of the mapping tool in the PROIVDE policy toolbox with functionality.

5 Illustrative Approach

5.1 Icons, Graphical Abstracts, Audio-visual Material

To improve comprehension, the PROVIDE toolbox makes extensively use of graphical and audio-

visual material to communicate the research process and results and improves the description of

the matter.

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Figure 13. Examples of graphical and audio-visual material used in the PROVIDE toolbox.

6 Stakeholder Portal and Interactivity

The part of the toolbox represents a repository of the stakeholder portals with additional material,

just as workshop presentations, pictures and other dissemination material, in national language.

Main features of the stakeholder portal are (see Figure 14):

Material in national language

Regional and topic-related Twitter-feed Use of social media

Documentation PROVIDE case study results

Photo Documentation

Stakeholder Discussion Forum (Beta Version)

Collection of useful links

Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/stakeholder/

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Figure 14. Example of the stakeholder portal page (EE) with functionality.