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UK partner - 3 year collaboration. .
PublicSpace is the UK partner in the three-year EU-FP7-funded project entitled 'ORCHESTRA'. The project is part of the FP7 initiatives to promote the wider dissemination and use of research findings from EU-funded projects, and to develop insight, expertise and a range of methodologies in research communication. ORCHESTRA is about disseminating the findings of nine previous research projects which have developed and explored the use of QSAR / In Silico methods for the evaluation of chemical toxicity. In silico methods can play a potentially important role in pursuing one of the fundamental aims of the 2007 EU REACH legislation, 'to promote alternative methods for assessing hazards of substances and to see animal testing as a last resort'. The dissemination is therefore to regulators, industrial users, policy-makers and other stakeholders across Europe. With partners in Italy, France, Greece and Germany, we are investigating the information needs and interest of the potential users and stakeholders, and then developing and using a set of appropriate research communication strategies. During the project we are using video to support the collaboration between the geographically dispersed team, to make key interviews with stakeholders available to the wider team, and to record key moments and events. As a key output of the project, we will be producing a video on in silico methods, and a video and guidance booklet on research dissemination for other research teams. Further information: ORCHESTRA is funded under the European Commission Framework 7 Programme (FP7). ORCHESTRA stands for: 'Organising dissemination on Results of projects on CHemical Evaluation, Spreading Techniques for Risk Assessment'.
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