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SNOWMAN identified funding organisations, researchers and knowledge users as main stakeholders of this ERA-Net.
- Funding organisations are looking for efficiency and effectiveness by cooperation,
- Researchers are looking for research budgets, and
- Knowledge users are looking for research results providing answers to their questions and help solving existing problems.
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Research funders
Research funders can be separated into two distinct target groups - the current funders of SNOWMAN and potential funders of SNOWMAN in the future.
SNOWMAN needs to engage with both in order to close the gap between supply of and demand for scientific research.
The countries participating in the SNOWMAN research projects will all benefit from the results of the trans-national projects,
while sharing research funding amongst them.
Ongoing efforts of SNOWMAN intend to enlarge the number of funding organisations contributing to this ERA-Net.
SNOWMAN aims at an open network, offering funding organisations influence on the research agenda, and the ability to take part
in research calls on a case by case basis. The number of funders participating should be flexible and so vary in time,
and the basic number of countries should not be limited to the seven partners involved today.
Researchers
An important target group for SNOWMAN are the researchers delivering research results to be disseminated to the user group.
The researchers are searching for money to realise their research. But the SNOWMAN project is not just a funding source in
addition to national and EU mechanisms.
An added value lies in the involvement of researchers throughout the whole RTD process.
This is necessary to overcome the deficit between supply and demand. A real use of research results will also benefit the researchers
compiling these results.
Users of knowledge
The users of knowledge can influence the research done within the SNOWMAN call projects.
For the time being, SNOWMAN aims with its communication at the trans-national networks of knowledge users like COMMON FORUM, ICCL, NICOLE and others.
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