Consulting
Clarifying the expectations
for structuring and making scientific projects clear
Evaluation · Valorisation
Evaluation
Strengthening
a project before submission
A project may be intellectually brilliant yet still fail to inspire sufficient confidence in the evaluator.
Beyond its scientific quality, evaluation also focuses—depending on the specific guidelines—on aspects such as objectives, organization, responsibilities, timeline, resources, budget, risks, and impact. Together, these elements help in assessing the project’s coherence, feasibility, and soundness.
Explicita offers a structured external perspective based on the framework within which the project will be evaluated. This analysis helps identify what is already sound, what remains implicit or insufficiently clear, and any potential weaknesses in the project.
This work then helps determine what needs to be clarified, substantiated, or strengthened. The goal is not to artificially tailor the project to the expectations of a funding program, but to ensure that its scientific quality is embedded in a project that is sufficiently well-structured to be fully appreciated.
Using evaluation
as a management tool
The evaluation of a research unit can also provide an opportunity to take a step back and reflect on its practices and operations.
Explicita supports the unit in analysing and reappropriating the evaluation framework in order to identify what already exists and works, what remains unclear or insufficiently structured, the elements needed to report on these aspects, and what may need to be strengthened.
LThe evaluation thus becomes not only an exercise in reporting, but also a means of objectively assessing the current situation and identifying areas for improvement.
Valorisation
Developing
a valorisation strategy
A research unit or community generally knows how to present its disciplines, research areas, projects, and results. It can be more difficult to distance themselves so as to articulate what this set of activities collectively produces, what challenges it addresses, and what needs to be recognised—by whom and why.
Explicita assists in this shift in scale. Building on what already exists—strategy, projects, results, evaluations, data, or existing materials—such input helps clarify the group’s contribution and understand the systems within which it operates, as well as the interdependencies that shape its situation.
This analysis helps identify what the group should make clear and seek recognition for—among whom and in relation to which issues—and then develop and formalise a tailored strategy for showcasing its work.
This strategy can then be translated into a communication strategy consistent with the priorities thus defined. Communication then becomes a tool in the service of showcasing the group’s work, rather than a series of actions lacking a common framework.
Mapping the path
to research impact
Funding and evaluation mechanisms increasingly require researchers to articulate the effects and impacts to which their research can contribute. However, the transition from scientific results to these broader outputs is not necessarily automatic.
Explicita assists researchers in developing this logic of contribution: expected results, relevant stakeholders, conditions for adoption or use, possible effects, and the impacts to which they may contribute.
This process helps identify any missing elements, clarify key assumptions, and formalise a coherent and credible impact pathway—without presenting as certain an impact that the research alone cannot guarantee.
An approach
that accompanies
the research community
Explicita’s interventions are grounded in current realities, existing resources, and the specific scope for action unique to each project, team, or organisation assisted.
The analysis and methodological approach are conducted jointly to understand the issues at stake, identify opportunities for action, and develop a response tailored to the situation.
This collaborative process enables the formalisation of a structured, usable, and adaptable outcome, without Explicita seeking to replace those responsible for its implementation.