You can actively develop realistic impact and relevant exploitation for your research and project.

A research project has an envisioned impact, and exploitation is planned based on that. Project results and their dissemination give rise to new insights about possible impact and exploitation.

What matters is realistic impact relevant for your research. Most impact will in reality come after project. That often becomes more clear along the way, and shifts the envisioned impact to more real case.

A project or research activity will have outputs. Those will lead to outcomes. Which in turn will become impact. The shift from output to impact takes time. Evaluating the actual impact is essential because that provides what your impact creation can actually reach. From that understanding the exploitation pathway can be more specific to reach its goal.

In this capacity building programme we will help you to break down the realistic impact. We will describe how active use of forums and workshops serves as a strategic route to develop credible exploitation pathways for your project, research area and career. The outcomes from exploitation activities will be the ground for realistic impact motivation.
The activity also builds a focused network. Involving the network is a way to identify potential exploitation opportunities and develop understanding that is specific and directly grounded in your research field towards realistic impact.

Each researcher and case is unique. This capacity building is an individual programme. The programme runs over three months with biweekly meetings. Besides feedback to develop relevant exploitation pathways and realistic impact, you will have mentor type of career advices from Mikael Syväjärvi.

Fee: 750 EUR.

Dr. Mikael Syväjärvi has more than 30 years of experience from pioneering research areas during 26 years in academia, and exploitation and impact since 2005. His experiences form the basis for his SME, Alminica AB, which contributes to European research projects with transfer of knowledge for impact and exploitation from research and innovation towards business and sustainability. Recent examples include the EU FET Open project SiComb (2020–2024) and the EIC Pathfinder project rePowerSiC (2024–2028).
He was also expert for Region Östergötland 2014-2018 for the focus area “Advanced Materials” to develop the smart specialisation strategy for regional economic growth (initiated by the European Commission), and Alminica AB was procured 2016-2018 to support the implementation.
Mikael was in the board 2014-2018 of Swedish national innovation programme in graphene, representing research and SME.
He is accepted as a mentor in the two European Innovation Council (EIC) 2026 programmes EIC Tech to Market and EIC Women Leadership. These activities support researchers and innovators in areas such as value proposition development, early-stage commercial thinking, leadership development, and strategic reflection on future opportunities arising from research and innovation.
He is advisor and investor in various research-based entrepreneurial activities, and can apply his broad experience to understand how any research area can position in larger context.