Welcome to the Knowledge4Policy Guidance area.

Here you’ll find practical advice for creating clear, accessible and policy-relevant content on Knowledge4Policy. Whether you’re experienced in creating content for K4P or are contributing to the platform for the first time, this guidance walks you through the essentials: how to write about your research engagingly and accessibly, for policymakers and other non-specialist audiences as well as for your fellow researchers.

We’ve organised the material into a number of learning paths that you can follow step-by-step. Each learning unit focuses on specific skills and practices that can help you write effective content for K4P, making your research understandable and useful beyond the research community.

This guidance was originally developed for European Commission scientists at the Joint Research Centre who publish on K4P, gathering scientific knowledge from different sources and producing syntheses written specifically for policymakers. 

As well as K4P Editors and Contributors, K4P Members can also contribute scientific knowledge and collaborate with JRC scientists on policy syntheses, so we have made most of this guidance available to everyone. Like the K4P User Manual with which it shares the K4P Learning Centre, only some guidance is restricted to K4P Editors and Contributors, or to Editors, Contributors and Members.

The Guidance has three main pillars (some content is still under development):

• Science for policy
  • Fundamentals of science communication
  • Writing about science for policy professionals
• Clear (digital) writing
  • Writing clearly and engagingly about research
  • Writing for the Web
  • Ensuring accessibility
• Editor’s toolbox
  • Curating and synthesising scientific knowledge across teams
  • AI for Editors