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EU COMMUNITY
ICT-2013.5.4 ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling
EU COMMUNITY MERGES ICT AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING WITH
ESTABLISHED ONLINE MEDIA AND STAKEHOLDER GROUPS TO CULTIVATE
TRANSPARENCY, ENHANCE EFFICIENCY AND STIMULATE FRESH IDEAS FOR EU
POLICY-MAKING
Deliverable D7.5
Stakeholder Workshop Reports
Editors: Maxime SATTONNAY
EU COMMUNITY: EURACTIV.COM PLC
Status-Version: Final – v1.0
Date: 30.06.2016
EC Distribution: PU
Project Number: 611964
Project Title: EU COMMUNITY
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Title of Deliverable: Stakeholder Workshop Reports
Date of Delivery to the EC: 30/06/2016
Workpackage responsible for the
Deliverable: WP7 – Pilots Operation
Editor(s): Maxime SATTONNAY, EurActiv
Contributor(s): EurActiv
Reviewer(s): UOC, FRAUNHOFER IGD
Approved by: All partners
Abstract: The report provides a description of
three stakeholder workshops.
Keyword List: EurActory, PolicyLine, Pilots
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Document Description
Document Revision History
Version Date
Modifications Introduced
Modification Reason Modified by
V0.1 03/06/2016 Table of contents consulted with consortium EurActiv
V0.2 20/06/2016 First draft communicated to reviewers EurActiv
V0.3 24/06/2016 Request for comments from reviewers EurActiv
V0.4 28/06/2016 Consolidated draft for review of partners EurActiv
V0.5 29/06/2016 Final draft for review of the Consortium EurActiv
V1.0 30/06/2016 Final version submitted to the EC EurActiv
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Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................. 8
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 9
1 STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP 1: DATAHARVEST 2015 ......................... 10
1.1 OBJECTIVES ................................................................................... 10
1.2 PROGRAMME ................................................................................... 11
1.3 PICTURES ...................................................................................... 12
1.4 ATTENDANCE LIST ............................................................................ 13
1.5 MAIN OUTCOMES AND FINDINGS ............................................................ 14
2 STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP 2: BUCOPROX ....................................... 15
2.1 OBJECTIVES ................................................................................... 15
2.2 PROGRAMME ................................................................................... 15
2.3 INVITATION .................................................................................... 16
2.4 PROMOTION AND COVERAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA .......................................... 17
2.5 EDITORIAL COVERAGE ....................................................................... 18
2.6 ATTENDANCE LIST ............................................................................ 19
2.7 MAIN OUTCOMES AND FINDINGS ............................................................ 20
3 STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP 3: ENERGY EFFICIENCY ........................ 21
3.1 OBJECTIVES ................................................................................... 21
3.2 PROGRAMME ................................................................................... 22
3.3 INVITATION .................................................................................... 23
3.4 VIDEO .......................................................................................... 24
3.5 PICTURES ...................................................................................... 25
3.6 TWEETS ABOUT THE EVENT .................................................................. 26
3.7 ATTENDANCE LIST ............................................................................ 27
3.8 MAIN OUTCOMES AND FINDINGS ............................................................ 29
4 MORE WORKSHOPS TO COME .......................................................... 30
4.1 WORKSHOP IN BRATISLAVA ................................................................. 30
4.2 WORKSHOP: EXPLOITATION OF POLICYLINE .............................................. 30
5 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................. 31
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List of Figures
FIGURE 1: PROGRAMME OF WORKSHOP 1 ........................................................... 11
FIGURE 2: PICTURES OF WORKSHOP 1 ............................................................... 12
FIGURE 3: PROGRAMME OF WORKSHOP 3 ........................................................... 22
FIGURE 4: INVITATION OF WORKSHOP 3 ............................................................ 23
FIGURE 5: PICTURE VIDEO WORKSHOP 3 ........................................................... 24
FIGURE 6: PICTURES OF WORKSHOP 3 ............................................................... 25
FIGURE 7: TWEET FROM MAROŠ ŠEFČOVIČ .......................................................... 26
FIGURE 8: TWEET WITH VIDEO PRESENTATION OF THE WORKSHOP ............................... 26
FIGURE 9: TWEET FROM EUROHEAT .................................................................. 26
FIGURE 10: TWEET FROM CLAUDE TURMES MEP ................................................... 26
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List of Tables
TABLE 1: DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ........................................... 7
TABLE 2: ATTENDANCE LIST WORKSHOP 1 .......................................................... 14
TABLE 3: ATTENDANCE LIST WORKSHOP 2 .......................................................... 19
TABLE 4: ATTENDANCE LIST WORKSHOP 3 .......................................................... 29
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Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations
Table 1: Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acronym Title
EC European Commission
EP European Parliament
SM Social Media
SW Stakeholder Workshop
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Executive Summary
This deliverable, entitled Stakeholder workshop reports, provides detailed
information about the three stakeholder workshops covering the policy and
technical aspects of the EU Community project as well as driving user
engagement with the products of the project.
Chapter 1 focuses on the first workshop that took place during the DataHarvest
2015 conference.
Chapter 2 focuses on the second workshop that focused on a specialised
audience with a focus on communications and EU affairs.
Chapter 3 describes the third workshop that was held with the participation of
more than twenty EU Energy Efficiency experts.
Finally, this deliverable gives an overview of the upcoming workshops outside of
the scope of the project and finishes with a conclusion.
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1 Introduction
Three stakeholder workshops were organised as part of Work Package 7 on
Pilots.
These stakeholder workshops targeted three different audiences in order to gain
a maximum of feedback.
The first workshop was aimed at data specialist and took place during Belgium’s
biggest data journalism conference called Dataharvest.
The second workshop was aimed at communication professionals working on EU
policy and took place during an event called BucoproX.
The last workshop took place during a policy debate with an audience and a
panel of Energy Efficiency experts.
These workshops were an important source of feedback from the users and the
community of EU Policy Stakholders as a whole.
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2 Stakeholder Workshop 1: DataHarvest
2015
Title: DataHarvest 2015
Timing: Friday, 8th May 2015, 16:30 – 17:30
Location: 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, (Erasmushogeschool | Room
1.23)
2.1 Objectives
As part of the European Investigative Journalism Conference, this event provided
a good opportunity to explain EU Community and to increase the visibility of the
project. For this reason a presentation on both platforms of EU Community was
made. The initial focus of the presentation was on EurActory, its analyzation and
ranking of EU professionals based on their expertise. Subsequently, more
information about PolicyLine was provided, pointing out the potential for
investigative and data journalism. This was important as the conference is one of
the most relevant networking events for investigative and data journalists in
Europe.
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2.2 Programme
Figure 1: Programme of Workshop 1
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2.3 Pictures
Figure 2: Pictures of Workshop 1
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2.4 Attendance list
The following 17 attendees participated in the presentation EU Community: Open
platforms for a next area of EU policy-making, presented by David Mekkaoui and
Natalie Sarkic-Todd.
Name Surname Title Organisation
Biserka Anderson PhD Student University of
Strathclyde,
Aberdeen/Glasgow
Maxime Sattonnay EU Community
Manager
EurActiv.com,
Brussels
Crina Boros Investigative &
Data Journalist |
CAR Trainer
Freelance, London
Alison Langley Adjunct Professor
and Freelancer
Webster Vienna
Private University,
Vienna
Dag Yngland Editor Europareporter,
Berlin
Katja Eichholz Online Editor Neues Deutschland
GmbH, Berlin
Elena Rudkowsky Reseracher/PhD
Student
University of
Vienna, Vienna
Blazs Nagy Navarro Journalist, News
Editor
Freelance,
Hungarian Public
Television
Ann-Marie Cordia Journalist Freelance
Annastiina Airaksinen Journalist Freelance, Co-
founder Pingisklubi,
Finland
Sabine Miesgang Multimedia editor Regionalmedien
Austria
N Dalponte Journalist Feelance
Marian Mae Männi Data Journalist Postimees, Tallinn
Justus von Daniels Reporter Correctiv, Berlin
Martii Idus Journalist Habardoks, Tallin
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Maria Van den Branden Journalist DeWereldMorgen
Iulii Selianko Director of
Development,
Founder
dataRada.eu
Table 2: Attendance list Workshop 1
2.5 Main outcomes and findings
EurActory and Policyline were presented to an audience of investigative
journalists during a conference focused on data journalism. The attendants
showed a particular interest in the fact that both platforms are Open Source and
asked questions about the features that can support investigative journalists in
their daily work. In their opinion, the platforms should be open source so that
they can be reused at local or national level.
About Policyline, a special emphasis was made by investigative journalists that
would like to be able to work on the data and not have everything made for
them. Also, when some important documents are not made public, Policyline
should show the missing elements in the policy processes. This feature would be
useful for investigative journalists to spot the documents that they should be
looking for.
For EurActory, participants asked if the tool was a product for the use of the
European Commission only or if it would provide useful insights to the community
of EU Policy Stakeholders.
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3 Stakeholder Workshop 2: BucoproX
Title: BucoproX
Timing: Thursday, 8th October 2015, 17:30 – 18:30
Location: Aloft Brussels Schuman, Place Jean Rey 3, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium
3.1 Objectives
The objective of this workshop was to test EurActory and PolicyLine to an
audience of EU policy communications professionals. This audience was targeted
because the EU Community Consortium hoped that communications professional
would be able to help us refine our marketing and branding moving to the final
exploitation discussions internal to the consortium.
3.2 Programme
The event follows a lively concept of short and snappy presentations followed by
lively conversations. The audience is highly specialised in communications and is
there also highly critical.
The presentation lasted for 7 minutes and was followed by 30 minutes of
discussion.
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3.3 Invitation
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3.4 Promotion and coverage on Social Media
The event was promoted on social media, both on Facebook and Twitter and the
promotion took place both before and after the workshop.
The objective of the
communications before the
workshop was to secure a
good attendance.
Whereas, the communications
after the event made sure that
the EU communications
professionals that could not
attend the workshop could at
least be reached with a wrap
up of the workshop.
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3.5 Editorial Coverage
The workshop was promoted by the organisers of the conference on their blog.
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3.6 Attendance list
Table 3: Attendance list Workshop 2
Participants
Name
Position Organisation
Maxime Sattonnay Community Manager EurActiv
Björn Becker Organiser BucoproX
Yulia Plyusnina Programme Development Coordinator
ACI EUROPE
Daniel Tanahatoe Communication Adviser ALDE Party
Sara Lesina Marketing Specialist Cargill Food Ingredients
Gareth Harding Owner and Managing Director
Clear Europe
Ana Popovici Creative in marketing and communication
Consultant
Davide Cesário Castro
Content Relationship Project Manager
CSR Europe
Filip Lugovic Business Development Consultant
DeHavilland EU
Joop Hazenberg Independent EU expert EU Watcher
Nicolas Derobert Communications, Membership and Policy
Officer
Eurodiaconia
Kruno Stjepanović Business Consultant European Commission
Daniel Fritz Social Media Strategist European Commission
Javier Hier MEP Advisor European Parliament
Robert Huqi Digital Communications Consultant
European Parliament
Sarah Farndale Communications Coordinator
European Youth Forum
Nicholas Bruneau Marketing Director EWEA
Lorenzo Marchese Communication, PR and European Affairs
Independent Consultant
Fabio Bauer Research Associate EMEA, Corporate Finances & Law
Korn Ferry Futurestep
Agata Mrowiec Communications Officer OCEANA Europe
Annica Ryngbeck Policy & Advocacy Adviser Social Platform
Iskren Marinov Project Manager Strauss&Partners
Alison Coleman EU Policy Officer Transparency International EU
Office
Irini Kessissoglou Blue Book Trainee at DG
GROW
European Commission
Kärt Mere N/A N/A
Soni Kanabar N/A N/A
Igor Pliner N/A N/A
Patrick Michel N/A N/A
Lucinda Clare N/A N/A
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3.7 Main outcomes and findings
The participants of this workshop are all EU communications specialists. They
provided the EU Community Consortium with a valuable understanding of both
this audience’s needs in terms of functionalities to be developed and also about
the way the products should be marketed in order to succeed on the market.
One of their main comments was that EurActory may not bring any added value
to a policy professional if it only identifies recognised experts in a given policy
topic. The opinion of the participants is that policy professionals will already know
the main stakeholders of the policy area they are working on. The interest of
them would be to be able to identify “raising stars” and experts from outside of
the “EU Bubble”.
PolicyLine was welcomed very well by participants. They considered that the
concept was very interesting and that the tool could be useful to them once it is
fully developed.
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4 Stakeholder Workshop 3: Energy
Efficiency
Title: #EurActory40 #EnergyEfficiency
Timing: Wednesday, 12th June 2016, 12:00 – 14:00
Location: EurActiv Network Office, 1 Bd Charlemagne, Brussels
4.1 Objectives
This workshop took a closer look to upcoming EU proposals and energy
efficiency. Main questions discussed were 1) Where does energy efficiency
feature in the Energy Union? Is it receiving sufficient political attention? 2) Are
Member States ready to play ball? 3) How can the EU energy efficiency targets
be attained? In addition it was the second time that a #EurActory40 ranking of
was revealed, this time on the subtopic #EnergyEfficiency experts.
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4.2 Programme
Figure 3: Programme of Workshop 3
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4.3 Invitation
Figure 4: Invitation of Workshop 3
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4.4 Video
A video was produced, which provides a summary of the policy debate from the
event.
Figure 5: Picture Video Workshop 3
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4.5 Pictures
Figure 6: Pictures of Workshop 3
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4.6 Tweets about the event
Figure 7: Tweet from Maroš Šefčovič
Figure 10: Tweet from Claude Turmes MEP Figure 9: Tweet from EuroHeat
Figure 8: Tweet with video presentation of the workshop
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4.7 Attendance list
In total 34 people attended the event on Energy efficiency 2016: The year of
delivery?.
Name Surname Job title Organisation
Adrian Joyce Secretary General European Alliance of
Companies for Energy
Efficiency in Buildings
(EuroACE)
Alice Stollmeyer Director @StollmeyerEU
Alice Franz Policy Officer European Builders
Confederation (EBC)
Arnaud Duvielguerbigny Head of Policy European Association
for the Promotion of
Cogeneration (COGEN
Europe)
Christina von Westernhagen Director EU
Government Affairs
and Public Policy
Dow Europe
Clara Lemaire Head of Brussels
Office
Centrica
Clara Saintigny Energy Efficiency
and
Communications
European Partnership
for Energy and the
Environment (EPEE)
Dervla Gleeson Media Relations
Manager
Cefic
Dora Peteoula Energy Savings
Policy Coordinator
Climate Action
Network Europe (CAN
Europe)
Guy Parker Manager Energy
and Climate
Cefic
Katherine Mercer Director of EU
Public Affairs
Centrica
Marco Mensink Director General Cefic
Mariangiola Fabbri Senior Project
Manager
Building Performance
Institute Europe
(BPIE)
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Oliver Loebel Managing Director PU Europe
Peter Handley Head of Unit,
Resource Efficiency,
Secretariat-General
European Commission
Pieter De Pous EU Policy Director EEB
Quentin Genard Researcher E3G
Roland Jöbstl Policy Officer,
Climate and Energy
European
Environmental Bureau
(EEB)
Roman Doubrava Finance Team
Leader, Energy
Efficiency Unit, DG
ENER
European Commission
Sanjeev Kumar CEO and Founder Change Partnership
Stefan Scheuer Secretary General Coalition for Energy
Savings
Victoire Champenois Assistant to Theresa
Griffin MEP
European Parliament
William Garcia Executive Director Cefic
Jan Te Bos Director General EURIMA
Marcus Franken Head of EU
Representative
Office
E.ON
Adele Naudy-Chambaud Manager of EU
Government Affairs
Schneider Electric
Riccardo Viaggi Secretary General EBC
Claude Turmes MEP European Parliament
Theresa Griffin MEP Europea Parliament
Paul Hodson Head of Unit Energy
Efficiency and
Intelligent Energy,
DG ENER
European Commission
Susanne Dyrboel President EuroACE
Monica Frassoni President EU Alliance to Save
Energy
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Julian Popov Fellow European Climate
Foundation
Brook Riley Climate and Energy
Campaigner
Friends of the Earth
Europe
Table 4: Attendance list Workshop 3
4.8 Main outcomes and findings
A feedback questionnaire was distributed at the end of this workshop asking
participants their opinion on the workshop.
What was highlighted by the participants is the following:
The workshop provided a good variety of speakers with very relevant
experts.
The openness of the debate and the level of the interactions between the
participants was of great value.
The workshop was well managed and the format allowed to focus on
specific policy issues.
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5 More Workshops to come
The EU Community Consortium will organise additional workshops further than
the three stakeholder workshops presented in this deliverable.
Two more stakeholder workshops will be organised before and after the end of
this project.
5.1 Workshop in Bratislava
The first workshop will take place in July and will focus on gaining more user
feedback on PolicyLine.
The second stakeholder workshop will take place in September and will be the
first experience of the EU Community Consortium outside of Brussels organising
a EurActory40 related event. The Stakeholder conference on the “State of the
Energy Union” will take place Bratislava, Slovakia.
The conference will have one panel and will last for 90 minutes. It is organized
for an audience of approximately 40 people, and a panel of approximately 6
persons.
The panel will be set-up around the key figure – European Commission Vice
President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic – who has accepted I-Europa’s
invitation in March 2016. The rest of the panel is currently under negotiation and
will be confirmed in the first part of July.
The event will take place during the Slovak EU Council Presidency and during an
important timing for the policy debates around the Energy Union portfolio. Not
only is this policy field a priority of the EU Council Presidency, but is it also very
timely as during autumn and winter several important legislative acts, one on
energy efficiency, one on the design of electricity market etc will be brought
forward.
The organizer will also pay special attention to media coverage of the event. Not
only will it be covered by EurActiv.sk, but also by other energy specific portals (of
whom their publishers or key figures might with high probability be on the
national EurActory40 list). The organiser will also invite general media and
provide space for media opportunity, with a press pack containing a press release
and the brochure. EurActiv.sk will run a special coverage and publish a video
from the event on its channels.
The event will be held in Slovak with English interpretation.
5.2 Workshop: Exploitation of PolicyLine
This stakeholder workshop will aim at gaining additional user feedback on the
needs of the users when using PolicyLine in their daily professional activities.
This workshop will be used by the EU Community Consortium as a focus group
that will test and evaluate PolicyLine in real time. The workshop will take place in
Brussels and will last for approximately two hours.
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6 Conclusions
The three stakeholder workshops targeted a good variety of audiences and
potential users, from data specialists and communications experts, to the more
policy driven commentators.
Based on the feedback of the three workshops, the EU Community consortium
has been able to identify many points for improvement as well as a great
enthusiasm from the community of EU policy stakeholders.
Based on the feedback collected with the workshop we learned the following:
PolicyLine has a very good concept and will be very valuable to the
community of EU Policy Stakeholders but it should be further developed to
meet the user’s expectations.
EurActory is a useful tool that should not only focus on the “EU Bubble”
but also provide relevant information about experts working in the
member states.
The #EurActory40 events on specific policy areas are a flagship product
that allows taking online tools like PolicyLine and EurActory to the real
world of EU policy making. Having 20 out of the 40 top EU experts on a
given policy around the table provides a real added value.
These successful workshops have encouraged the project consortium to organise
more workshops in order to gain even more insights and feedback before starting
the exploitation of EurActory and PolicyLine.