COALESCE – Science Communication Standards, Principles and Criteria
The European Competence Centre for Science Communication is dedicated to supporting all actors from the research and innovation system and beyond, in their practice of science communication. We are not alone – a number of valuable resources, from handbooks to training materials have been produced by many institutions and individuals and are available in multiple languages.
The Competence Centre will offer an online library, inviting the science communication community for their contribution to collect such resources. To ensure their quality and maximise their impact, a set of standards, principles and criteria (SPCs) were created. The SPCs are aimed both to resource creators, as a self-reflection tool in their daily work, as well as, to facilitate a submission process, and to users, as a support tool to select the most relevant and effective resources from those to be available in the library.
The SPCs were defined based on theoretical literature, co-creation sessions with members of the COALESCE Community of Practice, and previous work by the SwafS-19 sister projects. The general approach was adapted from the principles, standards and indicators for outstanding open science communication, from ENJOI.