ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e82715

D6.1 Analysis of needs and capacity of different audiences including policy makers, expert practitioners and other modellers

Milica Trajković^‡, Dajana Vujaklija, Guy Ziv^§, Arjan Gosal^§, Jiaqi Ge^§, Jodi Gunning^§, Birgit Mueller^|, Annabelle Williams^¶, Elisabet Nadeu^¶

‡ BioSense Institute, Novi Sad, Serbia§ University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom| Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany¶ RISE Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

Corresponding author: Dajana Vujaklija ( dajana.biosense@gmail.com )

This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Trajković M, Vujaklija D, Ziv G, Gosal A, Ge J, Gunning J, Mueller B, Williams A, Nadeu E (2022) D6.1 Analysis of needs and capacity of different audiences including policy makers, expert practitioners and other modellers. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e82715

Abstract

This document has five main sections: the first one, “Developing the needs assessment protocol” which explains how we approached to different stakeholders in order to define and analyse their needs and capacities; the second section contains the report of of the interviews conducted by RISE and present the needs of Policy Makers; section three explains the needs of expert practitioners identified during the online workshop (14th and 15th of July 2020); section four presents the needs of biophysical modeling community and section five explains the needs of ABM modellers identified from recent scholarly workshops. The results of this analysis will be taken under consideration and co-design and co-development processes.

Keywords

assessment, policy, needs, user, modellers, capacity