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1. Informed Cities:
Session One
Kate Theobald and Ian Fitzgerald

2. 1. What is your principal reason for participating in
this Forum?
(For Local Governments only)
36%
A. To improve my knowledge of
29%
urban sustainability in European 25%
towns and cities;
B. To meet with other ‘like-minded’
people working in a similar field; 11%
C. To learn more about specific
urban sustainability tools;
D. To improve my understanding
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3. 2. What is your principal reason for participating in
this Forum?
(For Researchers only)
35%
A. To improve my knowledge of 32%
urban sustainability in European
towns and cities;
B. To meet with other ‘like-minded’ 16% 16%
people working in a similar field;
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4. 3. What factors hinder collaboration between
researchers and local government policymakers?
(For Local Governments only)
A. Time lag between
dissemination of results
and impact on policy; 8%
B. Funding streams that do 19%
46%
not encourage
collaboration;
C. Ineffective 27%
communication means;
D. Researchers´ poor
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5. 4. What factors hinder collaboration between
researchers and local government policymakers?
(For Researchers only)
A. Time lag between
dissemination of results
and impact on policy;
26% 23%
B. Funding streams that do
not encourage
collaboration;
C. Ineffective 23% 29%
communication means;
D. Politicians’ need for
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6. 5. How do you mainly communicate with
researchers?
(For Local Governments only)
48%
A. Ongoing personal contact
with one or more researchers;
30%
B. Already existing network of
19%
researchers;
C. In response to specific 4%
tenders/calls for proposals;
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7. 6. How do you mainly communicate with local
government policymakers?
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A. Ongoing personal contact 37%
with one or more local 30%
27%
government officers/politicians;
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8. 7. What would be the most effective way for you to
communicate with researchers?
(For Local Governments only)
A. Ongoing personal
contact with one or more
researchers;
32% 36%
B. Already existing network
of researchers;
C. In response to specific 7%
tenders/calls for proposals;
25%
D. Use prestige of science
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9. 8. What would be the most effective way for you to
communicate with local governments?
(For Researchers only)
A. Ongoing personal
contact with one or more
local government 17%
officers/politicians; 27%
B. Already existing network10%
of local governments;
C. In response to specific 47%
tenders/calls for proposals;
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10. 9. At what stage should researchers involve local
governments in their research?
79%
(For Local Governments only)
A. From development stage of
the research proposal;
B. When proposal is developed
and local governments are
required as case studies; 14%
4% 4%
C. To test tools they are
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11. 10. At what stage should researchers involve local
governments in their research?
(For Researchers only) 70%
A. From development stage of
the research proposal;
B. When proposal is developed
and local governments are 23%
required as case studies;
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