ECOBROKER

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:

• writing a research proposal including research proposals for large EU calls that mandate the collaboration between practitioners and researchers
• the formulation of a research tender
• addressing a knowledge gap that could be addressed though a student research project.

Here are some examples of projects where researchers and practitioners collaborated from the outset of the project.