‘Follow the White Rabbit’ – a video about how the FET2RIN project helped an entrepreneur take a research result to market – has won the European Commission’s ‘Showcase your project!’ competition.
Almost 300 EC-funded research projects entered the EC’s competition, each submitting a short YouTube video that the EC then added to a dedicated playlist and promoted on social media.
The European Commission’s ‘Showcase your project!’ competition
About FET2RIN
Apart from demonstrating META staff’s previously undetected acting skills, the win also demonstrates that stories about the people involved in research projects are more effective than stories about the projects themselves, which tend to be more bureaucratic. Rather than simply presenting FET2RIN, the video presents Roland Acosta, a phD student of the University of Trento involved in a FET-funded research project. Roland attended a FET2RIN training session run by META, leading eventually to the creation of a startup spin-off. FET2RIN aims at facilitating collaborations to set the ground for the take up of Future and Emerging Technologies and FET projects by overcoming obstacles.
More:
- Project: FET2RIN is an EC-funded project focused on helping Future and Emerging Technologies researchers exploit promising research results.
- Product: FET2RIN is one of META’s ‘Research Helicopter’ services, which help individual scientists, research teams and projects become more entrepreneurial and improve their research impact.
- Blog: read the full story behind the video here
- Event: We will present both video and FET2rin project in the next ESOF conference (Toulouse, July 9-14) as the competition prize.