After some internal consultation, we have decided that we will stick to 2 content types in the Maritime Forum. The most recent events and articles are automatically listed on the homepage and in theme and community pages.
Please note that to create an article, you have to use Page as content type.
The banners have been a bit challenging for all of us. The ideal format for inserting a picture as banner is "Large (3:1)".
Access the available documentation for community managers on CIRCABC in our Maritime Forum Interest Group.
Maritime Forum Newsletter
The Maritime Forum newsletter is released in spring and autumn.
Do not hesitate to promote the newsletter and invite your community members to subscribe in Newsroom:
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/login?universe=maritimeforum&page=subscriptions
To contribute for your community, make sure you have access to Newsroom. Do not forget to associate your article to the "Maritime Forum Newsletter - Template" and do respect the given deadline to be part of the release.
Previous issues can be consulted in the Newsroom Archives or by clicking on the issue date underneath:
Maritime Forum Event Maker
This new functionality makes it possible for our Maritime Forum communities to set up and organise an event (virtual, hybrid...) for their community.
The Event Maker was presented to you under the form of an event organised on 5 June. Recordings are available in the event agenda (when logged in) Click here to read more...
A basic package for an event up to 100 people and 1 hour support is foreseen in this framework. Additional requests such as having more participants, more support, ... is at the expense of the organising community and has to be arranged independently with the provider.
All events on the platform will be organised in the following way:
- The community announces their event on the Maritime Forum
- After receiving a dedicated space in the Maritime Forum Event Maker, the community can add all necessary information and insert the invitation link for registration on the Maritime Forum website.
- A quality check is performed before publishing the event site.
- Participants must register for the event.
- Each participant will have access to the event space and can complete the created profile with useful information and showcase needs or expectations for better matchmaking.
- Participants have their own agenda at their disposal where they complete their schedule for the event and the list of their meetings.
- Results or outcome of the event will be published after the event on the Maritime Forum website. The event space will then be closed, and content deleted.
A few last tips:
- By default we create 2 participant types for your event. Please note that you can customise the participants types.
- You can offer networking possibilities to your participants, this possibility can be granted before or after meeting.
- If you want to control the number of participants to your event, you switch participants activation to "manually" and stop registrations on time.
Maritime Forum CIRCABC repository
The CIRCABC repository has been configured so that community managers can upload large documents and small media files.
EU login is required to access the Maritine Forum Interest Group, where each community has a dedicated folder and its community manager can upload documents. As community manager you can create subfolders and manage the permissions if you need to handle private contents.