April 2024
First meeting with the BETTER project was a success!
First meeting with the BETTER project was a success!
The Grand Hotel Bristol, and the landscape around the city of Stresa, Italy, was a beautiful backdrop for our first meeting in the innovative BETTER project. To grow innovation you need diversity, and what is more diverse than a collaboration of people across both international borders as well as across fields of expertises? It doesn’t get more diverse than the impressive group of bright, ambitious, and determined minds working together in BETTER!
Online meetings are great for working internationally, but nothing beats the good old-fashioned face-to-face meeting. So many conversations and ideas happen during the coffee break or on the walk to the dinner restaurant after the scheduled program of the day. Face-to-face meetings make online meetings easier afterwards, because we now know each other a little better.
Some of us have met before in other projects, however, most of us were introduced for the very first time in Stresa. During the meeting we presented our progress in each work package and use case so far, and discussing the next steps. With new inspiration and motivation in our minds, we all go home and continue our work.
We are looking forward to see what we can accomplish together in the next three years!
The Grand Hotel Bristol, and the landscape around the city of Stresa, Italy, was a beautiful backdrop for our first meeting in the innovative BETTER project. To grow innovation you need diversity, and what is more diverse than a collaboration of people across both international borders as well as across fields of expertises? It doesn’t get more diverse than the impressive group of bright, ambitious, and determined minds working together in BETTER!
Online meetings are great for working internationally, but nothing beats the good old-fashioned face-to-face meeting. So many conversations and ideas happen during the coffee break or on the walk to the dinner restaurant after the scheduled program of the day. Face-to-face meetings make online meetings easier afterwards, because we now know each other a little better.
Some of us have met before in other projects, however, most of us were introduced for the very first time in Stresa. During the meeting we presented our progress in each work package and use case so far, and discussing the next steps. With new inspiration and motivation in our minds, we all go home and continue our work.
We are looking forward to see what we can accomplish together in the next three years!
Making a project home page
01/04/24 15:20 Filed in: Communication | Rheasoft
When designing and making a Horizon project home page, a lot of considerations have to be done and a lot of people need to be involved, even though their daily focus is not what is communicated but rather what is researched.
When you start the web page, you also consider how to update it, and if it should be stored in a database with access for all, including being an easy target for cyber-criminals or a static page, which we ended up with here. The blog posts are hosted statically, so there is only the webadmins who can change anything, which has both security and monetary advantages (hosting a database is not for free), and the disadvantage that only one person at a time with the right tools can access it.
As the project is also funded by respectively the EU and the UK, there needs to be sufficient links to these organisations and we always have to remember to ask for permission for cookies and have an updated privacy form.
The Design was partially given by a vote on the logo and the page with color scheme evolved from there, also being part of our design manual that is forthcoming. It is intended to be easy to find what you look for and not to be plain walls of text. Later we will add videos both on the front page and in the blogs, describing the research. We will of course also add other communications either as downloadable results or as more traditional blog posts, and will ensure that all news will be announced on our related social media channels.
An issue that is difficult to work around from the outset is photos and logos. When so many partners are to be presented, first of all, it is difficult to find the right person to help, and secondly, when they are helping it may be difficult to get a common thread in the presentations and format, as the web page may change during the design and development process. We will likely update the graphics over time, where needed and where possible. The same goes for all the written contents. As we have 4 target groups, it is also a task in itself to try to address as many as possible this way.
We hope that you like the first version that we present here today, but you are always welcome to send us comments to make it better!
Happy and fruitful reading!
The Rheasoft BETTER communication team!
When you start the web page, you also consider how to update it, and if it should be stored in a database with access for all, including being an easy target for cyber-criminals or a static page, which we ended up with here. The blog posts are hosted statically, so there is only the webadmins who can change anything, which has both security and monetary advantages (hosting a database is not for free), and the disadvantage that only one person at a time with the right tools can access it.
As the project is also funded by respectively the EU and the UK, there needs to be sufficient links to these organisations and we always have to remember to ask for permission for cookies and have an updated privacy form.
The Design was partially given by a vote on the logo and the page with color scheme evolved from there, also being part of our design manual that is forthcoming. It is intended to be easy to find what you look for and not to be plain walls of text. Later we will add videos both on the front page and in the blogs, describing the research. We will of course also add other communications either as downloadable results or as more traditional blog posts, and will ensure that all news will be announced on our related social media channels.
An issue that is difficult to work around from the outset is photos and logos. When so many partners are to be presented, first of all, it is difficult to find the right person to help, and secondly, when they are helping it may be difficult to get a common thread in the presentations and format, as the web page may change during the design and development process. We will likely update the graphics over time, where needed and where possible. The same goes for all the written contents. As we have 4 target groups, it is also a task in itself to try to address as many as possible this way.
We hope that you like the first version that we present here today, but you are always welcome to send us comments to make it better!
Happy and fruitful reading!
The Rheasoft BETTER communication team!
