How to use the dashboard
Exploring impact categories
From the indicator tab, the user can navigate the different Interactive Pathways categories in which biomedical and health research can make an impact: Health, Economic, Society and Research Systems. By clicking on each category takes the user through to individual pages for each indicator of interest. By selecting an indicator of interest, a page detailing the summary information for that indicator is displayed.
For all indicators, the user can access a table view with the data. In addition, for several indicators the data can also be displayed as a map view across the EU. Some indicators also present a bar chart or line chart view.
Examples of use cases
The dashboard needs to be useful to different stakeholders, including for example researchers, policymakers, the third sector and the public. Below we provide some brief use case examples for how the dashboard could be used going forwards for different potential users.
- Policymakers and the third sector: By bringing existing data into one place, the dashboard could support decision-making by policymakers or third sector organisations. Policymakers who are overseeing a strategic programme in a particular biomedical or health area could use the dashboard to track trends over time, for example looking at outcome measures to monitor performance of the programme. The dashboard provides information on where a country of choice is doing well on some of the indicators and not so well on others. Policymakers looking to improve certain outcomes and impacts in their area could examine these indicators to start with and combine it with their knowledge. In addition, by regularly tracking how different impacts have evolved over time, policymakers could use the dashboard to inform future research funding calls within Horizon Europe, as well as future Work Programmes.
- Researchers: A typical challenge in applying for grants is to showcase the potential impact of the research, and a dashboard could be helpful here. Researchers putting in a proposal could use the dashboard to plan out their research approach and identify potential pathways to impact from their research. In particular, the logic model could help to identify key steps to track progress towards impact. The indicators could potentially be used to increase the chances of getting funding for research if projects could be linked to potential impact, and the dashboard could link to the project application process for whichever funding body is relevant.
- The public: By bringing existing data on EU health and wider societal impacts in one place and by making it accessible and meaningful to a wide audience, the dashboard could be used as a general source of information on health in the EU or as an educational tool e.g. in school.