Marie Curie Workshop 1

How to Present your Research Activities to Business Executives, to Public Officials, to Politicians and to other Scientists.

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Overview of the Course

The aim of this workshop is to help researchers to articulate and present the ‘relevance’ of their research work to different audiences. Research groups rely on public and private funding to finance their research work. The different individuals involved in the financing of R&D are the public officials who administer the funding programmes, the technical experts who evaluate the ‘scientific excellence’ of the research, the business executives who require new technologies and the politicians who prepare economic and social policy.

Overview of Workshop

1. Problems with Scientific Presentations

	The typical problems with scientific presentations
	Standard structure for presentation
	Sources of Information for presentations (websites)

2. Presenting Research to Business Executives:

	The priorities of business executives
	What business executives love to hear
	What business executive hate to hear

3. Presenting Research to EU Officials:

	The priorities of EU Officials (Policy)
	What EU Officials love to hear
	What EU Officials hate to hear

4. Presenting Research to Politicians:

	The priorities of politicians
	What politicians love to hear
	What politicians hate to hear

5. Presenting Research to Other Researchers:

What other scientists like to hear

6. Sample Presentation by a Participant