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A mentorship scheme for EARMA
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Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: Interactive Session
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Dr. Astrid VigtilEARMA has decided to develop a mentorship scheme for its members. The task force set down by the board will use this session to present a scheme and invite to a discussion of the added value for the members.
Grants Office Evaluation tools
The ISGlobal’s Grants Office: Continuous evaluation for improvement. Satisfaction survey and other evaluating tools
Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Elena EstebanThere are different ways in which the ISGlobal’s Grants Office is evaluated: satisfaction survey, Recommendations from the External Committee and meetings with the researchers. With these 3 inputs the Grants office prepares its annual Action Plan and strategic actions.
How to catch the researcher’s attention?
How to catch the researcher’s attention? Finding ways to bridge the information gap between research managers and researchers
Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: Interactive Session
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Julirose KouristHow can we succeed in today's world in making up-to-date information available to researchers in the best possible format? Which formats and information channels are most useful for different types of information? Are newsletters still the best way to catch the researcher’s attention?
Supporting Inter- and Trans-Disciplinary Research
Discussion Table - The Role of RMAs Supporting Inter- and Trans-Disciplinary Research
Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Patrick LansleyThis session will offer the opportunity to discuss issues raised by the Presentation: Supporting Inter- and Trans-Disciplinary Research
An interorganizational approach to a MSCA PF call
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Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Lauri KeskinenOur presentation concerns a joint effort of two Finnish universities to support MSCA PF applicants in the 2022 call.
DRIVERS for R&D at University of Antwerp
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Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Tim EngelsThis presentation is about the process to define the why, the how and the what of the research, innovation and valorisation support services at the University of Antwerp. A major outcome of this process is the DRIVERS acronym, which structures the services of the department for all involved.
Evaluation tool to assess the level of RSO Service
How to assess and improve the level of support offered by Research Support Offices. Lessons learnt from the ENLIGHT-RISE network.
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Drs Geert Jan ArendsSeán McCarthy defines 5 levels of support: from basic budget-checking to high level lobbying. We used the model to make an inventory of services at the partners of the EUN ENLIGHT-RISE network. We identified best practices on all levels and exchanged experience in interactive workshops.
Is the more the merrier?
The impact of having more staff in European research support
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Jakob KuhsAt the start of Horizon Europe, the EU Team at Ghent University was expanded. After 2 years, we have evaluated the effect of this expansion on the quantity and quality of Horizon Europe proposals. We share the first outcomes of the pre-award support provided and its effect on our success.
Organizing support services in a high profile call
Lessons learned at the University of Helsinki from a recent call for the Finnish Centres of Excellence Programme
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Helena HolopainenWe will provide lessons learned from forming the university guidelines and organizing support services in a recent high profile call. Due to a multitude of factors, experiences point e.g. towards the need of intensified capacity building and paying attention to know-how preservation.
So you want a research impact officer?
Insights from Trinity College Dublin’s 2.5-year pilot in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Institute.
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Giovanna LimaAs the need to demonstrate societal impact takes hold in our research culture, HEIs and RPOs are increasingly hiring “research impact officers”. But what do they actually do? Which skills or competencies should they have? Does your organisation even need one?
Supporting inter- & transdisciplinary research
The role of RMAs in supporting inter- and transdisciplinary research
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Doireann WallaceThis presentation introduces ways the RMA community can contribute to advancing institutional support for inter- and transdisciplinary research and presents preliminary results from a benchmarking survey on how RMAs at European universities are currently supporting such research.
Twinning for widening & deepening RMA skills
Best practices from a France-Portugal twinning project & an opportunity to form new RMA bonds!
Format: Oral 30 Minutes
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Dr Matthieu PyParticipation of Widening countries in EU programmes is still low. Programmes fostering researchers and research-performing institutions’ participation exist, however little is provided to support networks of RMAs. International networks of RMAs are needed, and one possibility is through the CSA-Twi
Bridging the Divide
Creating a one team approach as Pre- and Post-Award
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Caroline BarbourThe speakers will share their experiences from their current and previous institutions in order to show the benefits of Pre- and Post-Award adopting a shared partnership mindset and working closely together throughout the project life cycle.
Out of the Closet
RMAs; the missing link in strategic research collaborations
Format: Oral 60 Minutes
Category: Interactive Session
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Dr John DonovanInternational Offices take a leading role in international collaborations. Is that the way it should be? This panel session examines the role of RMAs in these collaborations against a range of different backgrounds. Form bilaterals to multi lateral and multi-functional. How do we make them work?
Collaborative MSCA support across institutions
Working together to deliver joint MSCA support activities within a European University Alliance
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Ross HanleyIn this presentation we will explore research manager collaboration between institutions, sharing reflections on our experience of working collaboratively across three institutions within a European University Alliance to deliver joint MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship support activities.
ERA Chair Actions@UC - challenge accepted
One experience from a research management team located in central Portugal: support in the ERA chairs action 2022
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Isabel NevesIn this presentation, we will focus on the approach developed at the University of Coimbra to engage in the ERA chair calls. ERA Chair Actions' aim is to attract in a sustainable manner outstanding scientists and innovators to universities or research organizations in Widening countries.
ERC: Ready, Steady, Go?
Helping researchers get ERC-ready through longer-term research development
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Adriana BrincatResearch institutions need to take a strategic approach in the development of their researchers. This session will explore ways in which RMAs can use their knowledge of the ERC to help train up their researchers. We shall see how the Grant Support Team at the University of Glasgow are doing this.
Ensuring MSCA PF success
MSCA PF Master Class: how can research administrators help improve the success rate?
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: Practical Initiatives
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Magnus GarderIn six years, the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo went from 0 to 37 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Our success follows the introduction of a Master Class for applicants, so what role can research administrator play in securing successful applications?
Pathway to success
Internationalisation at Centre for Social Sciences
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: 3. Good Practice
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Veronika TamásIntroduction of a complex institutional program which includes mobility grants, performance evaluation and other motivational elements that aims to strengthen the international presence, especially the number of international publications and applications of the research centre.
RMA transition towards becoming a university
The journey of a research support service transforming itself to meet its organisation’s ambitions
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Guillaume Frédéric LapeyreOur organisation aims at becoming a full university and to do so we need to meet challenging requirements in terms of externally funded projects. The research support office radically changed its way of working to meet this goal. We want to share what we have learned on the way.
Research Manager as a Matryoshka?
Matryoshka profile: what is behind the research manager profile?
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Francesca RegoliThe RM profile constantly evolves: Department d Management at the University of Bologna as a case study, as a base for discussion.
Research managers supporting research managers
Research managers supporting research managers: process and challenges
Format: Pecha Kucha
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Maria Joao NevesOrganising Support Services & Team Building (including, but not restricted to: Organising the full project cycle or any of its parts within or between organisations; distribution of work, benchmarking, attracting and retaining RMA talent)
Case Study: Ever-Expanding Role of Pre-Award
“The reward for great work is often...more work” A Case Study of the Ever-Expanding Role of a Pre-Award Team
Format: Poster
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Dr Liina RaeWhile working on ambitious funding targets, BiOrbic pre-award team must also contribute to reporting, EPE activities, event organisation, project management. This case study illustrates how we meet our funding goals but also ensure we contribute to the overall success of the research centre.
EARMA, RMAs & the European Universities Initiative
Introducing the EARMA EUI Thematic Group
Format: Poster
Category: Discussion Starter
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Dr John DonovanEUIs appear here to stay, quite how they stay is a bit of an open question and the role of the research and international offices in the day to day implementation of the initiatives and actions remains to be clarified. RMAs (& other Professional Services) are rarely around the table. They should be.
Grants Office: 10 years of Evolution (2012 – 2022)
Grants Office: 10 years of Evolution (2012 – 2022)
Format: Poster
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Elena EstebanThe Grants Office in ISGlobal has been in continuous evolution since its creation.
This evolution has a rationale behind, and the aim of these poster is to explain to the audience how we were 10 years ago and how we are now, indicating the main changes the reason why, decisions and implementation
Insights in EU Grant Support @ Radboud University
Strengthening Grant Support for Horizon Europe funding at the Radboud University Nijmegen: challenges, solutions and opportunities
Format: Poster
Category: Operational Lessons Learned
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Charlotte SteenhuisIn 2020 the Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) in the Netherlands launched an EU support programme aiming to increase the number and quality of EU collaborative proposals. In this poster we aim to present the challenges, solutions and opportunities we faced in strengthening EU grant Support at the RU.
Organising research support “from scratch”
Setting processes & forming a team in a newly established research unit in a university - an exiting experiment
Format: Poster
Category: 1. Case Study
Topic: Organising Support Services & Team Building
Izabela RaszczykThe presentation aims to explain three different paths that have been taken to establish a research support / administrative office in a newly established scientific unit within a university.