
Researcher: Maryann Harris, UCD Supervisors: Tamara Hochstrasser, Claire Cave, Karen Foley Practice partner: Dublin City Council Description: The project investigates the potential of the UNESCO
“ECOBROKER is a transparent way of connecting researchers, local authority staff, and other practitioners with common interests.”
– Matthew O’Sullivan, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
“Collaboration through ECOBROKER amongst disciplines and sectors allows us to address multifaceted problems.”
– Paula Russell, UCD
ECOBROKER is a free service web platform and events programme, which facilitates connecting people between professions and institutions by finding out about common interests. By using this web platform, researchers and practitioners can network and share research ideas.
Sharing research ideas when they are not in their finalised form helps people to come together and draw on each other’s expertise to come up with the most impactful research project.
The outcome of this exchange of research ideas is that environmental and societal challenges that need to be addressed collaboratively can be tackled. By initiating collaboration across professions and institutions, the ECOBROKER web platform can help with:
Here are some examples of projects where researchers and practitioners collaborated from the outset of the project.
Submit or view and search research ideas. Research ideas are submitted to seek research expertise, e.g. by local authorities or any ECOBROKER participant.
Researcher: Maryann Harris, UCD Supervisors: Tamara Hochstrasser, Claire Cave, Karen Foley Practice partner: Dublin City Council Description: The project investigates the potential of the UNESCO
Anti-plastic projects and initiatives in UNESCO Biospheres. Master’s project 2019.
Researcher: Laura Mainetti. University of Innsbruck, Austria. Description: This project was based on a series of interviews conducted at different UNESCO Biosphere Reserves over the
Researcher: Alice Roth, UCD and Toulouse University. Supervisors: Tamara Hochstrasser (UCD) and Olivier Therond (Toulouse University). Description: The project was investigating how landscape management on
Researcher: Elena Spinelli PhD project, UCD Supervisor: Olaf Schmidt, UCD. Description: The project has monitored the water retention performances of two extensive green roofs and two control
Project Coordinator: Professor Wim Meijer (University College Dublin) Project Contact: Joanne Chadwick, Operation Manager (joanne.chadwick@ucd.ie) Description: Acclimatize is a €9.2 million project that will bridge
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