Horizon Europe · Dissemination, Communication & Exploitation
Strengthen your Impact score. Add the dissemination partner who actually reaches citizens and youth.
EVEC Athens delivers everything a standard Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation work package needs — and layers on a proven science-to-society methodology that turns your results into school lessons, public engagement and youth-led startups. We join your consortium as your DCE partner, and where we hold topic credentials, as your work-package leader. EVEC is a partner and third party — not a research organisation or coordinator.
Where we move the needle
The Impact criterion — where ranking is decided
Excellence, Impact and Implementation are each scored 0–5, with a threshold of 3. For Innovation Actions, Impact is weighted ×1.5 in the final ranking — where the marginal points between equally polished proposals are won or lost.
Our contribution lands precisely there: turning a generic dissemination plan into measurable, audience-segmented activity with a credible non-commercial route to impact.
We speak your language
You write Section 2.2 in your sleep. So do we.
We build a draft PDEC (Plan for the Dissemination and Exploitation including Communication activities) into your proposal, knowing it becomes a binding deliverable by Month 6. We keep communication, dissemination and exploitation properly distinct — the conflation the REA flags as a recurring scoring error — and connect every measure to your summary canvas and Key Impact Pathways, especially strengthening the uptake of R&I in society and fostering the diffusion of knowledge and open science.
Communication
Promoting the project and its activities to broad, non-specialist audiences — it starts on day one and is a legal obligation (Article 17).
Dissemination
Public disclosure of results to those who can use them — scientific community, industry, policymakers and practitioners.
Exploitation
Concrete use of results, commercial or non-commercial. Our route is the non-commercial one: education, policy uptake, sustainability.
Why an evaluator scores you higher
How EVEC adds points to your Impact section
From vague to measurable
Turns the vague “we will raise awareness” into specific, audience-segmented, KPI-backed measures — precisely what scores well.
The citizen helix of the quadruple helix
Supplies the civil-society / citizen helix, plus the RRI keys of public engagement and science education.
A credible non-commercial exploitation route
Uptake of results into schools, curricula, toolkits and youth entrepreneurship — i.e. sustainability of results beyond project end.
Feeds the societal Key Impact Pathways
Demonstrates the two-way engagement — workshops, co-creation — that evaluator guidance increasingly rewards.
Three ways to use us
Slot EVEC into your consortium as…
A · DCE work package
Dissemination, Communication & Exploitation — we can lead in our lane (green / agri-food / sustainability, inclusion) and contribute everywhere else.
B · Engagement & citizen science
Citizen, youth & end-user engagement, co-creation and RRI — the “citizen helix” evaluators reward.
C · Living-lab / demo site
A real Athens urban-agriculture venue for demonstration, pilots and co-creation.
A real asset, not just a service
A living lab you can write into your proposal
Most dissemination partners offer words. We also offer a place: a working urban-agriculture living lab in Athens that consortia can use as a demonstration, pilot and co-creation site, with youth, schools and citizens already engaged around it. We host and run the site for engagement and demonstration — we are not the soil-science lead.
Soil
Raised-bed & container growing for hands-on workshops.
Hydroponic
Soil-free nutrient-film & deep-water systems for demos.
Aquaponic
Fish + plants in one loop — a vivid circular-economy story.
Aeroponic
Mist-fed roots — the high-tech end of urban growing.
Demonstration & pilot site
A physical venue for trials, demos and partner/citizen visits — directly relevant to Mission Soil, Cluster 6, NEB and Climate-Neutral Cities.
Citizen science & co-creation
Workshops with schools, youth and citizens that generate the real engagement evidence your Impact section needs.
Multiplier & training hub
An Athens base for events, training and multilingual dissemination across our youth and ESC networks.
Where we fit across Horizon
A strong fit well beyond green topics
Strong fit · can lead engagement/DCE WP
Cluster 2 — Inclusive Society
Youth, inclusion, democracy and citizen engagement — EVEC’s core identity.
Strong fit · living-lab + engagement
Cluster 6 + Mission Soil Deal
Our urban-agriculture living lab as a real demonstration & co-creation site.
Good fit · engagement / neighbourhood demo
New European Bauhaus + Climate-Neutral Cities
Green-inclusive neighbourhoods with youth co-creation.
Everything standard in a DCE work package
Every deliverable a DCE work package needs — delivered
Our unfair advantage
The EVEC methodology layer
We take a scientific topic, make it easy to understand and popular with ordinary people and youth, and build an educational ecosystem around it — exactly what “strengthening the uptake of R&I in society” asks for.
On microgreens.org.gr we translated the science behind microgreens into ≈150 plain-language, multilingual articles that real people read and act on. We run the @evec.microgreens channels, deliver workshops in primary, secondary and university classrooms, create youth-guide toolkits, help young entrepreneurs launch startups linked to the topic, and build Erasmus+ multiplier networks across Europe.
Where we lead vs. where we complement
Our method is topic-agnostic; our evidence is concentrated in specific fields
WP leader candidate
Green / agri-food, sustainability, environment, health promotion
Where the Commission explicitly weights citizen engagement and social innovation, we can credibly bid to lead the Dissemination & Communication WP.
Complementary DCE partner
Any other topic
Our methodology travels to any topic. Where we lack topic credentials, we work as a contributing DCE partner under the existing WP leader — and never position ourselves as the coordinator.
KPIs we can commit to
Benchmarks from comparable Cluster 6 / sustainability projects
| Channel / output | What we track | Indicative range |
|---|---|---|
| Website | Unique visits over the projectwith GDPR-compliant analytics | 5,000–20,000 |
| Social followers | Across LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook / X | 1,000–4,500 |
| Newsletter | Issues & subscribers | 8 issues · 300–3,000 |
| Videos | Produced & views | 5 · 500–3,000 |
| Publications | Peer-reviewed, open-access | ≈15 |
| Press & policy briefs | Releases · briefs · practice abstracts | 4 · 4 · 10 |
| Event attendees | Interim & final conference | 40–150 |
Compliance, reliability & reporting
We run EU projects to the letter
On ALL communication & dissemination outputs, with the standard disclaimer — the emblem at least as large as the biggest other logo.
Immediate CC-BY deposit in trusted repositories and on Open Research Europe · Data Management Plan support by M6.
We log all activities in the Funding & Tenders Portal continuous reporting module — on time and in order.
GDPR consent for photos, testimonials and mailing lists · we always clear major-media communications with the coordinator first.
Our track record
Proven, not promised
Example activities: school micro-farms, a solidarity microgreens programme supporting cancer patients, international youth exchanges, and Erasmus+ multiplier networks with partners across Europe.
How we work with coordinators
From your call to a ready partner — fast
1 · Send us the call
The topic ID + timeline.
2 · We reply fast
Usually within about a week: a draft DCE/engagement outline + indicative KPIs; a Letter of Intent on request.
3 · Part B text
Org description, role & capability, ready to paste.
4 · On award
We deliver the WP to the letter — PDEC by M6, EU emblem, F&T reporting.
Add EVEC to your proposal
Coordinators building a consortium: send us the topic and the timeline, and we’ll return a draft dissemination work package with KPIs calibrated to your call.
Building a Cluster 6 / Food 2030 proposal? Let’s talk before the deadline.
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Send your enquiry
Tell us the call, topic and deadline — it goes straight to horizon@evec.org.gr and we’ll reply with a draft dissemination work package and KPIs calibrated to your call.
Our programme families
Beyond dissemination
Six Erasmus+ strands
Funded learning, exchanges and volunteering for youth, schools and adults.
Open the hub →The organisation behind the work
Accreditations, team and track record — why coordinators trust us.
Meet EVEC →News & project results
Calls, results and stories from across all our strands.
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