How to use keep.eu for capitalisation?

Keep.eu can help you identify relevant Interreg experience, find results and outputs that could be reused, adapted or built upon, and discover organisations with knowledge of a subject.

Start in ‘Projects and documents’ with the issue, challenge or theme you are interested in. Enter relevant terms and choose where keep.eu should look for them, including project descriptions, expected results, achievements, expected outputs and delivered outputs.

You can then progressively refine the project set. For example:

• Focus on a particular country or region if the knowledge needs to be relevant or transferable to a specific territory;
• Broaden the geography if you want to discover approaches developed elsewhere;
• Select relevant programming periods to look at either recent experience or the longer history of Interreg cooperation;
• Use thematic and other project filters to identify a more coherent group of projects.

Once you have a useful set of projects, don’t stop at the project list. Review their achievements and outputs, explore the available project documents, and examine the partners involved. Organisations that have repeatedly worked on a subject can themselves be valuable sources of knowledge and potential contacts.

Export project results to Excel to work with the information outside keep.eu. You can also export document results, including links, when looking for methodologies, studies, tools or other materials. Save a useful search using the “Get results’ URL” button to rerun it later against updated keep.eu data.

The projects you identify can reveal approaches that worked elsewhere, existing methodologies and tools, potential synergies, experienced organisations, and knowledge gaps that future cooperation could address. Keep.eu is a good starting point: Assess the relevance, quality and transferability of the experience identified through the available documents and, where appropriate, contact with the organisations involved.

Tip: Combine several ways of looking at the same subject. A thematic search may reveal one group of projects, while a keyword, geographical or partner-based search may uncover relevant experience that a single classification would miss.