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TOOLS FOR PROJECT SCOPING: CONCEPTUAL MODELING OF STAKEHOLDERS, ACTIVITIES AND GOALS
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Stakeholders and project activities are related to the typical and usually necessary project components of: ideas, financing and implementation. Our aim is to illustrate useful steps in problem analysis, progressing from system characterization (analytical phase) to predictive modeling (synthesis phase). System analysis and multi-criteria evaluation are used to identify alternative scenarios regarding project goals. The model suggests that “public awareness” is best promoted in projects with a more balanced representation of different stakeholders and more diverse project activities than is common in research projects. Each project goal (e.g., public awareness, innovation, capacity building and knowledge generation) can be optimized by testing the contributions by different mixtures of participating stakeholders and project activities in the modeled scenarios. This approach, i.e., system modeling, is suitable as an initial step in project scoping. Conceptual models provide a common basis for networking, brainstorming and partner interaction. Modeling is also a tool for integrating different types of knowledge from diverse sources, which is typically necessary for complex problems with multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral aspects.
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