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CAPA - Selection criteria for eligibility of items
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General criteria (all knowledge domains)
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Dimension           Criteria description                                                                       Relevance
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Content focus       Items need to have a strong, clear and explicit focus on adaptation to climate change in   Mandatory
                    the Alpine macro-region, including in particular on natural hazard management and
                    disaster risk reduction in a climate change context.
Geographical scope  Items need to have a clear relation to Alpine territories and Alpine contexts, i.e. they   Mandatory
                    must relate to geographical areas of the EUSALP macro-region, the transnational Alpine
                    Space programme area, or the Alpine Convention area, or to countries that have a
                    territorial share in the Alpine region
Transferability     Items without an explicit relation to Alpine countries or territories, or produced in a    Exception
                    context outside of the Alpine area, are eligible if their contents are considered at
                    least partly valid, applicable, transferable, and thus relevant to the Alpine region.
                    Appraisals of transferability will to some extent require expert judgments by editors.
Relevance           Items should be of relevance, useful and usable to the core target groups of CAPA in       Mandatory
                    Alpine countries, regions, and municipalities: i) political decision makers and policy
                    makers, ii) public administration, iii) municipalities (mayors, municipal council
                    members, staff members of municipal administration), and iv) the expert and consultancy
                    community. These core target groups include decision makers and stakeholders from sectors
                    relevant to adaptation.
Language            Items in English and in the national languages of all Alpine countries (German, Italian,   Mandatory
                    French, and Slovenian) are eligible. Items fulfilling the other general mandatory          Priority
                    criteria that have documentation available in English language are given priority.
Up-to-dateness      Items, and the information provided by them, should be recent, up to date, and             Mandatory
                    state-of-the-art. This includes existing database items that may be of older origin, but
                    are still considered to be sound, valid and not out-dated. The publication date of new
                    items submitted to the CAPA database should not be earlier than 2010.
Accessibility       The item must be finalized, published and accessible (preferably online).                  Mandatory
Quality             The item should be of high quality, taking into account its relevance for the core target  Mandatory
                    groups of CAPA and their information needs. Appraisals of quality will to some extent
                    require expert judgments by editors.
Understandability   Items should be easily understandable for a non-scientific audience, and thus not be too   Priority
                    technical. Scientific (journal) publications are not at the focus of CAPA, but are
                    eligible if they are considered very important, relevant and of interest to the core
                    target groups of CAPA.
Transnationality    Items that have been produced in a transnational Alpine context (e.g. by an Alpine Space   Priority
                    project, in the context of an EUSALP Action Group or of the Alpine Convention) and/or
                    that cover territories of more than one Alpine country and/or that address trans-boundary
                    adaptation issues in the Alpine region are of particular interest.
Thematic scope      Items with a comprehensive thematic scope that cover several sectors and/or and cut        Priority
                    across several knowledge domains (and related stages of the adaptation cycle) are of
                    particular interest.
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Explanations on “relevance”
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:Mandatory:
    Knock-out criteria that have to be matched by the item.

:Priority:
    Items matching these criteria are given priority, provided that the mandatory criteria are fulfilled.

:Exception:
    Items failing a mandatory criterion, but matching a related exception criterion, are eligible for submission.