acesap

Activity 5: Popularisation

A5-wp1 - Dissemination

Participants: Franco Finotti, Claudia Beretta, Eleonora Zen, Cristiana Martinelli, Daniele Simoncini, Lorenzo Girardi, Alessandro Girardi, Ettore Sartori

ACE-SAP is a complex project, where researchers from many different institutions, following different research paths, will obtain shared results in order to offer a new key to better understand the Alpine environment, its changes and future threats and opportunities for its biodiversity, also providing new prediction tools and models for a careful environmental management and assessment.

WP5 has the task of synthesizing and disseminating the project's scientific results in order to spread a new environmental consciousness and an ecological awareness based on shared sustainable development principles. The ace-sap dissemination plan is aimed at reaching the widest possible audience: public administrators, private and public institutions involved in environmental management and assessment, researchers, students, educational departments, voluntary associations, a general audience.

A further important aim of WP5 is to encourage the ‘internal communication' among ace-sap researchers, to make it easier for them to meet (physically or virtually) and to exchange data and ideas.

Among the dissemination strategies adopted:

• the creation of a constantly updated web-site with a geo-referenced archive database on the studied species,
• a monthly acesap web-magazine where to find articles about biodiversity and news about the acesap project,
• ACE-SAP channel: a web-tv with a thematic channel on biodiversity,
• A virtual forum where researchers can always meet and exchange ideas,
• A password-protected web directory, shared by the Ace-sap project members, where to upload data on the studied species, minutes, meeting agendas etc.,
• the creation of educational materials and activities on the project's themes,
• the production of an educational travelling exhibition,
• the organization of workshops and seminars both for acesap researchers and for a general audience,
• the production of an educational Dvd documenting the whole project,
• the publication of articles on the local and national press.