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From the beginning of the project, WP1's main goals and tasks have been the definition of the state of the art, the specification and validation of the requirements on VAN project and the self-evaluation of the project execution.
The main target of Work Package 1 at the end of the project has been to perform a final evaluation of VAN results with respect to the state of the art and the original project goals. The progress and outcomes of the project have been assessed in order to evaluate the technical and non-technical quality and achievements of VAN project.
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WP1 includes a Social Impact Evaluation that reinforces the inclusion of society as an important stakeholder of VAN.
The Social Impact Evaluation (SIE) aims at applying a methodology intended to shape VAN research in order to improve its Social Impact –reinforcing positive impacts and avoiding the negative ones. The search for a classification of different kinds of impacts has led to consider five domains: environmental issues, societal issues, innovation system, employment, strategic economic issues. The study has been carried out through three stages: an ex-ante, an in-itinere and an ex-post assessment. As a result of the work carried out, some possible social impacts of the project have been identified, the majority of them were beneficial and were concentrated in the environmental and innovations system domain. This methodology, which has required the participation of technological partners and end-users, has been based on CARTIF experience in socio-economic impact assessment of RTD&I projects. This experience is also supported by a research co-operation project between CARTIF and the University of Valladolid (Sociology and Applied Economics Departments). For more information, please refer to D01.3-6 .
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