On 15 January 2026, we convened online Work Package (WP) leaders to focus on exploitation planning. This session, led jointly by our Exploitation Task Leads, brought together all partners to prepare for the upcoming consortium-level exploitation workshop at our annual meeting in Cremona in March.
Exploitation in BrightSpace is about ensuring that the results we produce are usable, transferable, and impactful beyond the project. During the meeting, we explored why systematic exploitation planning is essential, who is responsible for driving it, and how results can be effectively identified, documented, and shared.
We reviewed our preliminary Key Exploitable Results (KERs) across BrightSpace, covering areas such as the Integrated Modelling Toolbox, training materials, baseline and scenario datasets, socio-economic and bio-physical indicator datasets, interactive dashboards, policy evaluation simulations, and knowledge products. WP leaders discussed how these outputs can be used by policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders, and considered potential limitations to sharing and reuse.
A key outcome of the meeting was aligning on the six-monthly results-collection workflow, ensuring that contributions from WP leaders feed into the project-level KERs, exploitation pathways, and the living Exploitation Plan (D11.3). We agreed on next steps, including structured WP-level inputs by early February and the consolidation of project-level results ahead of the consortium workshop.
Through this meeting, we reinforced that exploitation is a continuous, collective process rather than a final-stage activity. By embedding exploitation thinking throughout project implementation, we aim to maximize the policy relevance, reusability, and long-term impact of BrightSpace results.
We look forward to further discussions and validation of our results at the consortium-level exploitation meeting in March, ensuring that BrightSpace delivers tangible outcomes for the European agriculture policy community.
Source: PLAB
