Contract no. 633838
PROVIDE
PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry
Call identifier: H2020-ISIB-2014-2; Topic: ISIB-01-2014
Funding scheme: Research and Innovation Action (RIA)
Deliverable 6.2 PROVIDE toolbox - Specifications
Final Version: 31.08.2018
Organisation name of lead beneficiary for this deliverable:
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
Main authors: Ingo Zasada, Fee-Nanett Trau, Kati Häfner, Dirk Pohle, Annette Piorr
(with contributions from all PROVIDE partners)
Project funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 Programme (2014- 2020)
Dissemination Level
PU Public X
PP Restricted to other programme participants (Including the Commission Services)
RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (Including the Commission Services)
CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (Including the Commission Services)
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Content
1 Summary ........................................................................................................................... 3
2 Objective ........................................................................................................................... 4
3 Toolbox Development Process ........................................................................................ 4
4 Toolbox Structure and Functions ..................................................................................... 5
4.1 General Structure .............................................................................................................. 5
4.2 Start Page & Functions ...................................................................................................... 6
4.3 Economic Valuation ........................................................................................................... 7
4.4 Governance Solutions and Mechanisms .......................................................................... 8
4.5 Communication of Regional Case Study Results (Problem, Analysis, Solution) .......... 10
4.6 Inventory, Hot Spots and Spatial Significance of Public Goods .................................... 11
5 Illustrative Approach ...................................................................................................... 11
5.1 Icons, Graphical Abstracts, Audio-visual Material ........................................................ 11
6 Stakeholder Portal and Interactivity .............................................................................. 12
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1 Summary
Responding to the objective 5 of the project, WP6 results are (1) to investigate the state of the art
in the field of policy toolbox development, (2) surveying experiences in toolbox development from
previous European research projects, (3) conducting a structured stakeholder participation process
(about demand and requirements of a policy toolbox), (4) developing a PROVIDE toolbox concept
(including structure, form and content of the information to be provided), (5) to implement and
programme of the online toolbox to be openly accessible as well as (6) enabling a “life after
PROVIDE” of the policy toolbox. The development process of the toolbox in PROVIDE is structured
into three development phases over the whole project lifetime and beyond: 1. Conceptual and
Development Phase; 2. Implementation Phase; 3. Application Phase. This deliverable report 6.2
provides insights into the specifications of the PROVIDE toolbox, which is the result of the
Application Phase.
The core result is the development online policy toolbox, which facilitates the knowledge transfer
process from the PROVIDE project research results into policy-relevant information for policy-
makers and stakeholder at different policy levels (EU and regional level). The URL of the toolbox is
http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/
The toolbox consists of 8 main elements, which have been developed with contributions by
different project partners: (1) Stakeholder portal (with all 13 case study leaders): include written
and visual documentation of the stakeholder workshops, audio-visual material in national language
and partly interactive discussion forums; (2) EU-wide mapping tool (with partner VU), including 12
data layers on different public goods as well as linkage to the spatial location of the case study areas
of the EU-research projects CLAIM, PROVIDE and PEGASUS; (4) Case study region documentation
(with all 13 case study leaders): include region descriptions, pictures, local maps and summaries of
the PG demand and supply and governance analysis; (5) Public goods (with partner BOKU):
Overview and descriptions of five groups of public goods and linkage to individual case study
results; (6) Valuation (with partner UCO): Overview and descriptions of five groups of valuation
methods and linkage to individual case study results; (7) Governance (with partner BOKU):
Overview and descriptions of five groups of governance mechanisms and linkage to individual case
study results; (8) Linkages to other relevant information sources; (8) Large collection and structured
application of social media information (Twitter) in different positions in the tool: in case study
region documentation and public goods overview (with all 13 case study leaders)
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2 Objective
The conceptual design and functional implementation of the toolbox will be task of the WP leader
ZALF. Planned is a web based toolbox, focusing on inventory/mapping, methods and mechanisms
(policy options, governance solutions, best practices for service models, win-win solutions, etc.)
offering different “entrance doors” as staring points to enter the knowledge support system, e.g.
through the selection of (1) key target public goods; (2) problems, conflicting situations, synergy
situations; (3) search for thematic maps, hot spots; (4) impacts of intensive production by area; (5)
policies or policy questions and mechanisms multi-level governance solutions and
recommendations; and (6) method tool box
3 Toolbox Development Process
The stakeholder and end-user oriented development process has been in detail described in
PROVIDE Deliverable Report 6.1. Figure 1 provides an overview of the process.
Figure 1. Toolbox Development Process.
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As a result, a diversity of demand and requirement towards the formats and the functionality of the
toolbox have been formulated (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Stakeholder Demands and responding Toolbox / Platform Elements.
4 Toolbox Structure and Functions
4.1 General Structure
Based on the stakeholder demands, the core idea of the PROVIDE Toolbox is to provide policy and
practice-relevant information at European and regional level (see Figure 3). We have further
incorporated a number of cross-cutting policy-issues, including public goods (descriptions),
economic valuation, governance mechanisms and a mapping tool. Further specific attention is paid
to regional and EU level stakeholder through the establishment of a stakeholder platform.
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Figure 3. General Structure of the PROVIDE Toolbox.
4.2 Start Page & Functions
Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/
Figure 4. PROVIDE Toolbox Start Page with Functionalities.
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4.3 Economic Valuation
Structured collection and overview of PG demand & supply valuation (see Figure 5)
Generalisation of regional results, determinants, benefit transfer
Repository of economic valuation methods with short descriptions and overview of
respective studies
Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/valuation/
Figure 5. Structured collection and overview of PG demand & supply valuation.
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Figure 6 & 7. Examples of a result representation for a PG demand (UK, ES).
4.4 Governance Solutions and Mechanisms
Repository of governance solutions and mechanisms with short descriptions and overview
of respective studies (see Figure 8)
Potential success or trade-offs of the most promising governance strategies, enabling
factors and barriers for uptake; Suitable combination of GMs
Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/governance-mechanisms/
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Figure 8. Repository of governance solutions and mechanisms
Figure 9 & 10. Examples of a result representation for a PG supply (EE, DE).
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4.5 Communication of Regional Case Study Results (Problem, Analysis,
Solution)
Figure 11. Examples of a regional case study presentation (AT); Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/case-study-regions/marchfeld-at/
Case study photos
Right hand side: Twitter feed
Case study description
Mapping of the spatial context
Public good issue description
Valuation results
Governance analysis results
Link to stakeholder portal
Infobox responsible researchers
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4.6 Inventory, Hot Spots and Spatial Significance of Public Goods
The mapping tool as part of the PROVIDE toolbox contains 15 spatial raster data layers representing
indicators for public goods with a <1 km resolution. It further contains indication and links to case
studies of the PROVIDE, PEGASUS and CLAIM research projects.
Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/maps/
Figure 12. Graphical user interface of the mapping tool in the PROIVDE policy toolbox with functionality.
5 Illustrative Approach
5.1 Icons, Graphical Abstracts, Audio-visual Material
To improve comprehension, the PROVIDE toolbox makes extensively use of graphical and audio-
visual material to communicate the research process and results and improves the description of
the matter.
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Figure 13. Examples of graphical and audio-visual material used in the PROVIDE toolbox.
6 Stakeholder Portal and Interactivity
The part of the toolbox represents a repository of the stakeholder portals with additional material,
just as workshop presentations, pictures and other dissemination material, in national language.
Main features of the stakeholder portal are (see Figure 14):
Material in national language
Regional and topic-related Twitter-feed Use of social media
Documentation PROVIDE case study results
Photo Documentation
Stakeholder Discussion Forum (Beta Version)
Collection of useful links
Link: http://provideknowledgeplatform.eu/stakeholder/
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Figure 14. Example of the stakeholder portal page (EE) with functionality.
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