Europees onderzoek vertalen naar het Nederlandse beheer van de rijkswateren : Test en geleerde lessen

Dutch policymakers are looking for easy and efficient ways to improve the access to European research results that are of interest for the Netherlands. This report has described a translation approach that consist out of 4 steps, to ease access to European research results. This approach is applied to the topic of climate adaptation, in particular sustainable management of the big rivers, which is one of the themes of the Dutch Knowledge and Innovationprogramme Water and Climate (NKWK). The conclusion is that the translation approach works well but depends on factors like the complexity of the question, the researcher’s understanding of the policy context as well as the researcher’s professional relation with EU researchers and the easy to translate policy questions into research questions.