The goal of the communications team in AIMS-2-TRIALS was to communicate with autistic people and their families, researchers, clinicians, policy makers, industry and the general public. We aimed to raise awareness and understanding of autism and about how to best support autistic people and their families across Europe.  

We created this website to be accessible to the autism community, general public and researchers. We have chosen our language with care. 

Key outcomes 

• We have worked closely with the autism representatives group (A-Reps) to co-produce or collaborate in order to plan and implement communications for the AIMS-2-TRIALS consortium.  

• We have produced webinars and videos about autism research on our YouTube channel 

• We have co-developed publicly available resources about community engagement, communication and accessibility in autism research.  

• We have produced publicly accessible news pieces about our research and achievements.  

• We co-developed an art competition and exhibition with autism community members to raise awareness and challenge misconceptions about autism.  

• We designed and delivered training to researchers, industry partners and autism community members.  

• We communicated key findings from across multiple AIMS-2-TRIALS research projects to policy makers including in an event at the European parliament.