Small RMA-teams have to be smart
Enhancing international research funding for Universities of Applied Sciences
Conference
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Topic: 5. Proposal, Award and Project Management
Abstract
Increasingly, Universities of Applied Sciences are expected by their national governing bodies to internationalize their applied research and innovation activities, primarily through applying for competitive funding (e.g., Horizon Europe, Erasmus+).
Faced with small research support teams, RMA-professionals struggle to establish well-performing and sustainable support services for the pre- and post-award stages of research proposals and projects. Additionally, scientific personnel working in Universities of Applied Sciences are confronted with high educational workloads and fragmented project-based research funding. These factors together can have - and have had - a crippling impact on the capacity to apply successfully for (international) research funding.
In this session, four Universities of Applied Sciences will share their insights on how they have tried to increase their organizational capacity regarding the support and management of international research funding. We will discuss strategies that worked, those that might work, and those that flopped.
Come to our session if you work in an understaffed and overworked RMA-team and have the wild ambition of empowering researchers to obtain international research funding.