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CCCA Policy Briefs

To encourage knowledge exchange between practice and research in the spirit of "co-creation" of knowledge, CCCA supports researchers in writing policy briefs together with practitioners, in addition to fact sheets. This is intended to build a further bridge between research and application and to facilitate knowledge transfer. Policy briefs provide easy-to-understand answers to key questions on a research topic, taking the perspective of stakeholders into account.

Policy brief No. 1: Landslides, climate change and land use - key messages for practice from the ILLAS project

Policy brief No. 2: CCUS in Austria – Assessment of the legal framework and the perspective of emissions-intensive industry (Veseli, Böhm, Fazeni-Fraisl, Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz; Fleischhacker, Sachs, Kapfer, Ernst & Young denkstatt GmbH 2025)

Policy brief No. 3: CCUS in Austria – Potentials, technologies and impact assessment (Böhm, Fazeni-Fraisl, Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz; Hochmeister, Zöllner, Kulich, Lehner, Ott, MUL 2025)

CCCA policy briefs are around two to four A4 pages in length and are made available as PDFs in German. Policy briefs are not internally reviewed like fact sheets; instead, they are developed through dialogue between researchers and stakeholders. The perspective of practitioners on a research topic therefore feeds more strongly into the content compared to fact sheets.

Key features of CCCA policy briefs for potential authors:

  • Length: around two to four A4 pages (equivalent to approx. 7,000–14,000 characters)
  • Key messages: policy briefs must answer three to five central questions from practice. These are developed together with CCCA and key stakeholders
  • Images/photos/figures: at least two images (preferably three) are required in a policy brief.
  • Target audience: ranges from interested "lay readers" to specialist experts — the language of a policy brief should not be too scientific
  • Review: In order to be published as a CCCA product, a policy brief must be reviewed by the project team as well as by at least two stakeholders.