With OpenEye as facilitator, the Swedish EPA used an “impact logic” approach to follow up on for six research programs. This approach made it possible to link program outcomes to Sweden’s national environmental goals and thereby enhance the utilization for goal advancement.

Client profile

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is the national agency for environmental protection and nature conservation as well as outdoor recreation and hunting issues. Its key tasks are to present proposals for environmental policy and legislation to the Swedish Government and ensure that environmental policy decisions are implemented.

Client need

One of the EPA’s key responsibilities is to fund environmental research, which is crucial to the fulfillment of Sweden’s national environmental goals. One challenge is creating explicit linkages between research, government policy, and improved conditions in the environment. It’s a complicated path from the development of new discrete knowledge developed in individual research to the lofty, legislatively developed environmental improvement indicators.

With OpenEye as facilitator, the Swedish EPA worked to link research results to government environmental indicators through our impact logic approach.

Main takeaways

The Swedish EPA concluded that this approach enhanced utilization of research results and increased the return on investment of their R&D funding.

There is a book issued by The Swedish EPA that deeper describes the process, results and benefits of this collaboration. It can be ordered through The Swedish EPA's web bookstore. ISBN:978-91-620-5953-8 (Only available in Swedish)