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This interactive workshop for those working with or within a knowledge valorisation intermediary, supporting researchers and innovators to uptake their results aims to contribute to mapping intermediaries and discuss good practices, challenges and opportunities related to their roles, activities, competencies, and skills.
It takes place on 12 May 2026, 09:30 – 16:00 (CEST) in Brussels.
Knowledge valorisation intermediaries play a vital role in the innovation journey, bridging research results with market, policy or society uptake. They facilitate interactions among various R&I actors, help translating the needs and opportunities between supply and demand of innovation, and support the concrete implementation of solutions.
These organisations come in various forms and take on different roles and activities. They include knowledge and technology transfer professionals, incubators, science parks, Union, national and regional innovation hubs or clusters, IP experts, consultants and innovation support professionals, science communication and policy engagement teams, knowledge for policy/science advice organisations and citizen engagement professionals, as mentioned in the Guiding principles for knowledge valorisation.
Given their important role in the research and innovation ecosystem throughout Europe, the ERA Policy Agenda 2025–2027 includes an initiative to build the capacity of intermediaries to strengthen links between academia, industry and public authorities by developing a competence framework for intermediaries.
To further support intermediaries, this workshop aims to map their roles, activities and competencies . This mapping will provide a basis for developing customisable framework of competencies at organisational level across the European Research Area.
For more information please refer to the source page of this announcement: Towards a competence framework for knowledge valorisation intermediaries – Research and innovation and register here
In addition to the workshop, the European Commission invites knowledge valorisation intermediaries to complete a short public survey.