EARMA Conference Prague 2023

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Bottom-up approach to incorporating WC to ERA

Why aren’t we successful at adequately incorporating widening countries into ERA?

Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables

Category: Interactive Session

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Petra Vaculíková

The EC is developing new ways of tackling this issue. However, it seems that nobody reached out to the individuals who are often the proponents of a bottom-up change of culture (sometimes even despite the current rigid system).

CARDEA

Research Managers are Invisible

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Practical Initiatives

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Mary Kate O'Regan

Cardea is the Roman Goddess of the hinge. Aptly named as Research Managers open Research Doors. Even though Research Managers have been strengthening Europe's Research and Innovation excellence for decades they are invisible from a policy perspective. CARDEA wants to change that!

ERAgoesGRA

Towards a Global Research - Management - Agenda: A look back from 2028

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Discussion Starter

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Bruno Woeran

What if it's 2028? A globally confident community not influenced by or tied to national boundaries and/or obligations. The goal of this session is: to imagine the new insights and new possibilities that can inspire our work and tip us toward a better future by asking: “What if?”

EU Public affairs and RMA profession

EU Public affairs help to widen and deepen the RMA profession

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Discussion Starter

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Martijn Gerretsen

RMA is about designing and leading and managing processes, projects and/or groups. The output of these tasks can be improved when RMA experts are involved in the policymaking of f.i. the new EU framework program 2028-2034, which started in 2022.

HEU Missions: Designing a strategic approach

HEU Missions: Designing a strategic participation approach to improve multidisciplinary cross-faculty participation

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Massimo Busuoli

A strategy to approach HEU Missions calls have been designed and implemented at NTNU. It is based on a set of actions: from a mapping of available expertises to the co-design of the participation approaches with involved researchers. The proposed session presents the whole process and outcomes.

HEU Strategic Partnerships: positioning management

NTNU Forum: Maximising impact deriving from HEU Strategic Partnerships involvement

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Massimo Busuoli

Since the beginning of HEU, NTNU have started strategic participation of selected researchers into Strategic Partnership of interest. The impact deriving by this involvement, is guaranteed by through the hooking of these representative with a set of multidisciplinary thematic Fora: the “NTNU Forum"

Making a research integrity policy operational

Towards simplicity: making a research integrity policy operational to promote a culture of integrity

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Mr Sidney Engelbrecht

The focus of this abstract, therefore, is on the evolution and maturation process in an institution from informal to formalized approaches. However, the sparse regulatory environment requires one to lean heavily on international best practices in relation to research ethics and integrity management.

On the merits of non-competitive research funding

An assessment of the rationale and merits of non-competitive research funding

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Discussion Starter

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Arne Vandenbogaerde

In reaction to the disadvantages of a competitive funding landscape, calls for providing non-competitive research funding (NCF) have emerged. This presentation sets out the key issues and rationales with regard to NCF policies and discusses its potential effects.

SCOPE: A tool for responsible research evaluations

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Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Practical Initiatives

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Laura Himanen

This session will provide the participants a practical tool for conducting more responsible research evaluations in a world where the ideals for responsible research assessment are spreading, but not enough expertise, nor relevant training is yet available.

Synergies to Support the Innovation Cycle

Ensuring the adequate funding and financing for Science Based Innovation

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Marta Sofia Guilherme Silva Candeias

This session will present examples on how synergies between different funding mechanism, at regional, national and European level, were used to fund research and innovation activites.

University strategy implementation as sensemaking

The state of “not knowing it all” and the role of RMA as a coach

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Dr Jenni Virtanen

We discuss strategy implementation at the University of Helsinki with a case of building a roadmap for implementing multidisciplinary research themes. We study the narrative of the case with sensemaking perspective (e.g. Weick 1995) and focus on participatory methods and the role of RMAs.

Critical research management for complex problems

Lessons learned in establishing a major programme aimed at addressing complex global challenges

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Daniel Black

Addressing increasingly urgent, complex global challenges requires the effective establishment and successful delivery of new, large-scale research collaborations that operate in new ways. Research management, its recognition, and funding play central roles in enabling this to happen.

Dynamic Dashboards Made Easy

Dynamic dashboards that interpret and analyse overwhelming amounts of data about research

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Kathryn Weber-Boer

Examples of beautiful, dynamic dashboards, using multiple datasets to answer specific strategic research evaluation questions and generate insights about the trends, landscape, and impact of a selected university’s research: from funding to clinical trials and societal impact to scientific citation.

Ethics and integrity

Ethics and integrity: EARMA collaboration with the European Commission

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Borana Taraj

We will reflect on the importance of ethics and research integrity for research managers and administrators in the European and global context and what EARMA is doing in this regard since 2018.

How to create and manage research budgets

The importance of creating budgets in consultation with post award teams for better end to end research management

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Connie Killey

Creating a budget as part of a research proposal is an important financial exercise. This sets the scene for post award, and research finance administrators if the proposal is awarded. Without a collaborative approach, things can go horribly wrong.

The future of data-driven decision making

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Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Practical Initiatives

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Saara Santanen

In a world where data is power, we need to ensure data is available to drive decision-making and the future strategy of the universities we work in. But it’s a challenge. We shall showcase innovative and dynamic dashboards that help answer some specific questions.

The reform of research assessment an overview

The European process for the reform of research assessment and its implications

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Methodological Session

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Dr Miklos Gyorffi

Practice of research assessment is long standing issue in research management. Recently a reform process has been started with the aim to form a coalition of institutions that would act in collaboration to create a common platform to achieve reform.

What is Lobbying?

Lobbying and Horizon Europe

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Discussion Starter

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Sylvia McCarthy

This presentation analyses the role of lobbying in defining the structure of Horizon Europe and the routes by which research feeds into the EU policy making process.

Widening countries - where are the real gaps?

Opportunities and barriers for research and innovation performance in Widening countries and the role of RMA

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Interactive Session

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Zygmunt Krasinski

The session in form of panel discussion will concentrate on the aspects related to: a) promotion of Research Managers position in Widening countries, b) influence of instability of R&I ecosystems on participation rates, c) how to build trust as a base for future projects.

3C = Creation, Collaboration, Continuation

Cross-collaborative science diplomacy for the future of creative industries, the bottom-up approach

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Discussion Starter

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Ms. Hana Owsianková

Presentation of the concept of bottom-up science diplomacy in the creative sectors that stands on 3C – educating in the Creation process, cross-sectoral Collaboration, sustainable and responsible Continuation.

A RMA's role in research collaboration

Stimulating research collaboration within university alliances with RMA support

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Lucy Kerstens

Building university alliances often starts at strategic level, but to stimulate research collaboration, the Research Support Offices can play an important role in helping identify useful and practical tools that facilitate and stimulate strategic inter-university research collaboration.

Brain gain policy

Brain gain policy: a best practice for the professional widening and development of other RMAs

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Fiorella Giacometti

This presentation has the aim of sharing our best practices in terms of research talents recruitment: the BRAIN GAIN POLICY. We hope it can contribute to the professional widening and development of other RMAs.

Smart Research Support

Career and excellenced based stratification of funding portfolios

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Harald Hasler-sheetal

Information about career level, seniority, scientific productivity and research field allows for a efficient and effective stratifiaction into individual finding scenarios - as they individually illustrate the expected success of a individual for a specific call/instrument.

Scientific career path policy in RadboudUMC

Implementation of the Research leader policy – challenges and successes

Format: Poster

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Policy, Strategy, Evaluation and Foresight

Martijn Gerretsen

In the presentation the best practice and the pitfalls in policy development of the Scientific career path and its implementation in University Medical Centre will be discussed.