Stakeholder engagement for regional geoscientific surveying: the Tellus Border communications campaign

Visible publicly funded projects are obliged to communicate to taxpayers – at community, constituency, regional or national levels – the issues, benefits and potential risks associated with project operations and findings. As part of the EU INTERREG IVA-funded Tellus Border Project, a comprehensive programme of stakeholder engagement was implemented to support survey operations and to assist the realisation of project benefits. Communications measures were planned appropriate to different stakeholder groups. The successful implementation of these measures ensured that the surveys were completed without major incident and that the value of the work was demonstrated both to taxpayers and to government, thus facilitating funding for subsequent programmes