What does it bring to evaluate the societal impact of research?

Researchers who carried out case studies testified that the exercise could bring them benefits in the following areas:

• Internal learning around mechanisms that generate impacts and end-users of the knowledge produced
• Dialogue with funders, to show the attention paid by research to public funds
• Dialogue with society: a democratic dialogue to show that science is useful to the citizen
• Dialogue with partners on the complementarity of the contributions of each
• Internal cohesion of the research teams, recognizing the complementary role of the different professions...

In video, the testimony of Hubert de Rochambeau, president of the Inra Center in the Aquitaine region