EARMA Conference Prague 2023

Getting started as a Project Manager

Surviving the first 50-days as a Project Manager

Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Project Management

What is (and is not) a Project Manager? Common themes, best practices, and resources

Auditor: Friend or Foe

Auditor: Friend or Foe

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

Auditors are usually seen as The Baddie, The Villian, or The Scoundrel. We're here to set the record straight, about how to work with your auditor, and how to view us more like James Bond, than Ernst Stavro Blofeld!

Improving Efficiency in Public Project Management

A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficiency of Public Project Management Utilizing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Project Management

This research is the first in-depth look at how Public Project Management fits into the larger framework of New Public Management, and how "public efficiency" may be measured and improved using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.

Innovation in Research Support

Innovation in Research Support: learning from experience with IDI&CA

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

The focus of this presentation lies on a new internal research program, a distinctive milestone that challenged the science and technology managers team at Lisbon Polytechnic, and the routines mainly implemented in legal practices, and administrative and financial proceedings.

PM² implementation

Project Management Methodology implementation

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Project Management

PM² is the project management methodology developed by the European Commission. 

What is a project management methodology and what does this one contain ?

Could it be useful for you to know more about it ? What are the interests for ourselves and our organisation ?

Recognising Professional Project Management in HEU

Recognition of professional project management expertise under Horizon Europe

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

The European Association of Innovation Consultants (EAIC) considers the recognisation of the impact of professional project management (PMGT) essential and raises awareness about the need for proper consideration of project management for the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

Risk management assessment in the RM profession

Strategies and clues to detect, understand and handle risks in the Research Management field

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

From structural to unpredictable, from regulatory to practical ones, up to financial instabilities, risks are physiological, inevitable and exciting aspects of a project. Several strategies can be put in place to assess the actual possibility of a risky-event and foreseen mitigation measures.

VITO InterAct peer-to-peer platform

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Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Project Management

The InterAct platform allows VITO’s researchers to ask questions or make announcements to colleagues about proposal preparation and project management in a trusted Teams environment.

All that glitters is not project management

The challenges in the EU-Project Manager role/profession. All project administration is not project management

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Interactive Session

Topic: Project Management

Project Manager might be one of the most over used titles to describe the role and profession behind the administrative and/or coordinating support provided to and in EU funded research projects. With that said all under the umbrella of “Project Manager” does not belong there.

The Lump Sum is in limbo - How to survive this

The RMA toolbox for lump sum grants in Horizon Europe

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

Horizon Europe expanded its use of the Lump Sum model, perceived as a more effective & simpler method of financial management. A closer look unravels critical discrepancies and issues that RMAs must be aware of. This session addresses the critical questions stemming from the lump sum model.

Disciplining the Transdisciplinary

The challenges of integrating project management systems to an existing trans-disciplinary research project

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

I will provide an overview of my time working on the UKPRP funded TRUUD project, which has been operational for over two years. I outline the challenges of taking over the project management of an working project and the measures taken to ensure the project meets the funder’s requirements.

What has Covid done for us?

How to build confidence, trust and enthusiasm by exploring new ways to achieve optimal results while working remotely.

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Discussion Starter

Topic: Project Management

The covid related health restrictions have radically changed managerial habits. This dynamic change has forced us to create new, adaptable and creative ways of working. How the environment, the digial tools became meaningful and how our soft expertise was called upon to create a valuable atmosphere

Implemantation of project standards in WC!

Challenge of implementing Horizon project management standards to widening countries?

Format: Poster

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

The role of the project manager in a widening country is absolutely crucial, not only in the pre-award phase but also in the post-award phase, when the project team often encounters an unprepared environment and a lack of understanding by the institution of the need to adhere to project standards.

Internal project procedures at University of Split

Internal procedures in project management lifecycle: case study of University of Split

Format: Poster

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Project Management

Establishing internal procedures over different project management phases can increase quality of project implementation and ensure its sustainability. With universities having different constituents, having insight in all project processes helps in forming a solid basis for future prospects.

Realising Inclusive Design Through Co-creation

Co-authors: Emma Clarke, Jane Dunne, Anne Kearns, Lorraine Leeson, Elizabeth Mathews, Rachel Moiselle, Shaun O’Boyle, Rehana Omardeen, Frankie Picron, Dimitar Shterionov, Davy Van Landuyt

Format: Poster

Category: Operational Lessons Learned

Topic: Project Management

Co-creation offers an opportunity to integrate user communities into research but this is often difficult to manage in the context of a research project. This poster illustrates managing impactful co-creation events through working with the deaf and hard of hearing community in the SignON Project.