As the SDGs-EYES project approaches its conclusion, one of its key achievements is the release of a set of Policy Briefs translating the complex findings from each pilot into concise, decision-ready messages for organisations that rely on EO-based evidence for monitoring, compliance, planning, and investment decisions.
These briefs were designed to highlight the potential of each pilot’s results, explain their relevance for policy development, and demonstrate how the project’s innovations can be applied across different sectors and contexts. Considering our long-standing expertise in policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and the creation of tailored policy instruments, T6 Ecosystems led the development of these briefs by transforming the project’s technical work into accessible, actionable knowledge.
A Structured and Collaborative Process
To deliver these briefs effectively capturing the potential of the pilot work, T6 designed and coordinated a multi-step process involving project partners.
Firstly, we co-developed the standard policy brief template and prepared the content based on internal documentation, project deliverables, partner exchanges, and targeted literature reviews. This template ensures that each brief highlights key messages, provides an overview of the service (data, methods, indicators, limitations), outlines policy relevance through concrete use cases, and presents barriers and enablers, concluding with targeted recommendations. Pilot leaders were, then, engaged in a sequence aligned with the maturity of their work, allowing lessons learned from the early briefs to strengthen the following ones.
Afterwards, all briefs were finalised with a layout aligned to the SDGs-EYES visual identity, ensuring recognisability and a professional, project-wide coherence.
Expertise in Policy Dialogue and Knowledge Translation
The development of these Policy Briefs builds on T6’s experience in bridging the gap between research and policy. Across EU-funded projects, T6 has designed and facilitated: evidence-based policy recommendations, scenario-building exercises, stakeholder and co-creation workshops, policy dialogues and structured policy outputs integrating multi-level perspectives.
In SDGs-EYES, this expertise has been complemented by dedicated policy events organised within the context of EuroGEO workshops and a side event organised by our partner EARSC at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025. This work began early in the project and continued through its final stages.
- On October 8th, T6 has organised the SDGs-EYES Policy Event titled “Harnessing Earth Observation data for Sustainable Development.” hosted at the EuroGEO Workshop 2024, in Poland
- On 13 October 2025, T6 has organised organised the SDGs-EYES Policy Event titled “Monitoring SDGs to Protect Citizens from Climate Risks” hosted at the EuroGEO Workshop 2025, in the Netherlands
- On the 6th of November 2025, EARSC and T6 have organised the workshop “Advancing Urban Climate Adaptation with User-Driven Earth Observation: The SDGs-EYES Way” at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025
These events helped bring together policymakers, domain experts, statistical bodies, and EO innovators to discuss the practical integration of EO-based SDG monitoring into existing policy cycles.
By bringing diverse perspectives together, T6 supported the dialogue between research and informed decision-making.
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