European Community of Practice

Author: EQUAL Management Office and 5 Universities

Country: Portugal

To validate new products is a way to recgonise innovation, to improve quality and to recognise its added value. In EQUAL, Portugal we put forward a very powerful mehodology to validate prodcuts based on a common reflection of authors, experts and users of the new solutions. The validation grid with the seven qulaity creiteria (innovation, empowerment, suitability, userfulness, accessibility, quality and transferability) can be found in our resources.

Networking is crucial to create interaction and a dynamic that induces innovation. In Portugal we have created several thematic networks with participants coming from different projects which allow a very intense sharing of experiences which was critical to go in depth into new forms of working. You can find the methodology we followed in our networks.