What Makes a Good EU Project Dissemination Site

Every EU-funded project has a dissemination obligation, and almost every consortium solves it the same way: a website nobody updates after month six. Having built dissemination platforms for several Erasmus+ projects — from smart farming to financial literacy — we've developed strong opinions about what actually works.

Multilingual is not optional

A consortium spanning four countries needs content in four languages, and "we'll translate it later" means never. Our sites treat every piece of content — events, publications, page copy — as a localized object from day one. Editors see immediately which translations are missing, and the public site falls back gracefully instead of showing empty pages.

Editors are not developers

The people updating a dissemination site are project coordinators, not engineers. If publishing a newsletter requires a git commit, the site is already dead. A small, focused admin panel — events, publications, downloads, partners — beats a general-purpose CMS that needs training sessions.

Build for the audit, not just the audience

Funded projects get reviewed. That means the site must show project results clearly and keep them available after the funding period ends. We favour boring, durable hosting and exportable content over clever infrastructure that stops working when the project account closes.

Reuse the platform, not the site

Our dissemination sites share one codebase with a module system on top: a new project picks the modules it needs — events, publications, deliverables, translation management — and gets a running site in days, not months. The budget then goes where it belongs: into the content.

If your consortium is planning its dissemination work package, we'd be glad to help.