Deliverables

To underpin climate policymaking with authoritative scientific processes and results for the post-2030 period and enhance the science-policy interface, the IAM COMPACT website will serve according to the DoA, as a constant node aiming to present information on the project and disseminate its results as well as a reference site with material and links related to climate action and sustainable development, relevant consortia, and projects. The website’s development is essential to the effective promotion of the project concept, progress, activities, results, and stakeholder engagement. The project’s progress and results will be published online. The visual identity of IAM COMPACT will convey the message on what the project is about and will communicate objectives, methods, and expected results to stakeholders.

The purpose of this document is to describe the visual identity and the website of the IAM COMPACT project, which is part of Task 1.2 ‘Creating the IAM COMPACT visual identity & website’ activities. Dissemination tools, including information and communication means such as the logo, flyer, leaflet, poster, roll-up, and presentation are presented.

The visual identity and the materials presented on the website will be updated as the project needs evolve.

Ensuring the policy-relevant output is a fundamental aim of IAM COMPACT. This document outlines a stakeholder engagement plan that can facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration between modellers and stakeholders to achieve these aims. The key objectives of stakeholder engagement in the project are to ensure policy relevance, share knowledge and enhance trust between modellers and stakeholders, and provide direct inputs from stakeholders to make modelling socially and politically realistic.

The core of the stakeholder engagement plan will revolve around the policy response mechanism, a structured format for engagement between project partners and stakeholders. The stakeholders for IAM COMPACT will be selected from a stakeholder pool, managed by project partner Bruegel, building upon Bruegel’s contacts from previous similar projects. A variety of engagement techniques will be employed, including but not limited to bilateral interviews, workshops, and public events.

Bruegel will lead the operation of the policy response mechanism, in collaboration with all project partners. The process will involve two co-creative cycles, each comprising: selection of stakeholders from the project database, co-creation with stakeholders of a policy-relevant research agenda for two modelling iterations, refinement and updating of the research questions after the first iteration, discussion and feedback on modelling results, and finally the dissemination of the policy recommendations based on the research outputs.

I²AM PARIS is an open data exchange platform for climate and energy policy modelling, developed by the Horizon 2020 PARIS REINFORCE project. Drawing from the current capabilities of the platform, this report provides a summary of platform improvements in the context of the IAM COMPACT project. Notably, efforts will be placed in adding validity checks for modelling data that is uploaded to the platform and providing an indication of whether modelling results are credible by comparing them with relevant benchmarks such as the vetting criteria from IPCC AR6 WGIII. We will also develop user-friendly interfaces for data input, allowing modellers from other projects to easily interact with, and add new modelling and scenario information to, the platform. Existing components of the platform will be also improved in term of functionalities. New model documentation will be added, while the existing documentation will be updated, emphasising interpretability by non-experts. In this direction, we will also create a component with videos and training material for new modellers. Finally, the representation of sectoral models will be enhanced in existing components, while new result workspaces will be created to showcase the outcomes of the project’s modelling exercises.

This document details the CDE plan to be employed for the entire duration of IAM COMPACT. It outlines both the centrally led outreach activities and tools developed to ensure the efficient uptake and replication of the IAM COMPACT outcomes, and the decentralised efforts to be applied towards reaching and involving all interested actors and target groups through each partner’s stakeholder engagement process and contacts. In doing so, it provides clear guidance that considers “why”, “who”, “what”, “when”, and “how” to engage, as well as the promotional and informational materials that are fundamental for project outreach, and the measures to assess the successful implementation of the CDE activities.