The promotion of INRAE’s public policy support activities makes it possible to publicise the policy support activities carried out by INRAE’s scientific teams to public stakeholders and to facilitate the use of scientific results by these stakeholders.

Making public policy support activities visible

Public policy support activities are both diffuse and very present. They take a wide variety of forms: fundamental or targeted research to fill knowledge gaps for action, experimentation, data collection, production and banking, methodological development, expert appraisals, training, etc.

At the interface between science and public policy, they are in tune with the challenges of environmental, food and agricultural change. They also result in a wide range of outputs, including new knowledge from research work, publications, technical guides, training, methods and associated software support, etc.

Showing the diversity of activities in support of public policy, illustrated by concrete cases carried out by INRAE scientists, serves several purposes:

• to demonstrate the public utility of the research conducted at INRAE,
• to maintain and develop partnerships
• to promote the scientists involved in supporting public policy,
• showcase the career opportunities offered by public policy support.

INRAE’s scientific community and public partners are the beneficiaries of its research and development work. Scientists also need support to promote their own work and make it known to targets other than their “sponsor”.

The “beneficiary” services of policy support, national or territorial public services, INRAE’s partners and public policy stakeholders thus benefit from resources to learn more about the possible forms of support provided by INRAE scientists.