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User manual page | Last updated: 16 Jul 2024

What is my personal profile and how do I create and manage mine?

Mathew LOWRY Mathew LOWRY

What is it?  

In the interests of transparency, a public personal profile is required before you can contribute to Knowledge4Policy, so all K4P users know who is contributing each piece of knowledge. The more detail you provide about yourself, the more credible your contributions.

How do I create and submit my personal profile?

Login, navigate to your user menu (see FAQ: What is my user menu?) and click “My profile”.  

Fill in the form. Note that:

  • you will have already agreed to the privacy policy and terms and conditions when logging in;
  • you can save your form in draft format and return to it later
  • your name and email are provided by EU Login and cannot be changed
  • two fields are mandatory:
    • "At a Glance"
    • choose at least one knowledge service
  • the ‘Contact me’ feature is described in  FAQ: What is ‘Contact me’ and how does it work?

Once you have submitted your personal profile, the community manager(s) of the knowledge service(s) you included will check your profile.  

What happens when my personal profile is approved?

You can submit your profile to multiple knowledge services at once. Alternatively, you can apply to one and then apply to other knowledge services later by adding them to your profile.  

The first time any knowledge service community manager approves your profile, your personal profile’s status becomes ‘public’. It is published and now appears in the global K4P members gallery. 

You can use ‘Ask a scientist’ and ‘Contact me’, and as you are now a member of that knowledge service:  

  • your profile also appears in the knowledge service’s "Our members" gallery;  
  • a link to the knowledge service appears in your profile;
  • you will be able to submit knowledge to that knowledge service, and comment on blog posts;
  • you will be use other interactive features when those features become available.

The second and subsequent times a different knowledge service’s community manager approves your public profile, you join that knowledge service as well. If a knowledge service’s manager does not approve your (already public) profile, your profile remains public, but you simply do not join that knowledge service.