CAPA - Selection criteria for eligibility of items

General criteria (all knowledge domains)

Dimension	Criteria description	Relevance
Content focus	Items need to have a strong, clear and explicit focus on adaptation to climate change in the Alpine macro-region, including in particular on natural hazard management and disaster risk reduction in a climate change context.	Mandatory
Geographical scope	Items need to have a clear relation to Alpine territories and Alpine contexts, i.e. they 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	Mandatory
Transferability	Items without an explicit relation to Alpine countries or territories, or produced in a 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.	Exception
Relevance	Items should be of relevance, useful and usable to the core target groups of CAPA in 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.	Mandatory
Language	Items in English and in the national languages of all Alpine countries (German, Italian, French, and Slovenian) are eligible. Items fulfilling the other general mandatory criteria that have documentation available in English language are given priority.	Mandatory Priority
Up-to-dateness	Items, and the information provided by them, should be recent, up to date, and 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.	Mandatory
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 groups of CAPA and their information needs. Appraisals of quality will to some extent require expert judgments by editors.	Mandatory
Understandability	Items should be easily understandable for a non-scientific audience, and thus not be too 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.	Priority
Transnationality	Items that have been produced in a transnational Alpine context (e.g. by an Alpine Space 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.	Priority
Thematic scope	Items with a comprehensive thematic scope that cover several sectors and/or and cut across several knowledge domains (and related stages of the adaptation cycle) are of particular interest.	Priority

Explanations on “relevance”

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.