EARMA Conference Odense 2024

Challenges Faced by Grants Offices: Lessons Learne

Challenges Faced by Grants Offices: Lessons Learned for Success

Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Leadership

The challenges faced by Grants Offices require a multifaceted approach to success. At Institut Pasteur, our Grants Office has continually evolved to meet these challenges head-on. We look forward to sharing these insights with the RMA community.

Effective researcher-administrator partnerships

Integrating culture and experience, the key to effective researcher-administrator partnerships

Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables

Category: Case Study

Topic: Collaboration and Strategic Alliances

Developing relationships between investigators and research administrators strengthens partnerships, respect, and improves the grant submission process.

IT-enhanced human touch

On account manager approach to our profession in the AI-era

Format: Fifteen-Minute Discussion Tables

Category: Good Practice

Topic: IT Systems and tools supporting RMA now and in the future

To what extent can AI supplant our role? If we define our profession as providing personalized and engaged services to individual scientists, who are our long-term clients, we must assess which aspects of our work can be replaced. However, should we not instead ask which aspects can be enhanced?

Barriers& Opportunities for Impact-driven Research

Raising Impact Awareness, Literacy and Readiness

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Operations and Planning

The ENLIGHT alliance impact team intends to share and discuss barriers & opportunities to implement impact-driven research, identified on the basis of a comprehensive Impact Literacy Survey, its Impact Conference and workshops. Actions under development to promote an impact culture will be discussed

Beyond Academialand

The impact of research in the real world

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: Leadership

Impact is everything, the rest is just research. I have paraphrased the Barbie movie’s tagline to illustrate the increase pressure on universities to demonstrate the impact of their research on the real world. These changes have open new challenges for RMAs around metrics and evaluation.

Bridging the GAP for EU projects

Strategic and operational aspects of Grant Agreement Preparation

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

This presentation explores strategic and operational aspects of GAP support and project mobilisation, using as a launching point the case study of the introduction, in 2021, of a Mobilisation Officer in Trinity College Dublin. It also provides beginner-friendly information on GAP for EU projects.

Building a Culture of Research Excellence

Building a Culture of Research Excellence: A Case Study of Research Management in a Newly Established Vietnamese University

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Collaboration and Strategic Alliances

Founded in 2018, VinUniversity aims to nurture a thriving research culture within Vietnam. This case study delves into the opportunities and challenges that have arisen during the institution's efforts to foster a research-centric ethos.

Changing scope and quality of data in CRIS systems

Changing scope and quality of data in CRIS systems – evolution or revolution?

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: IT Systems and tools supporting RMA now and in the future

From early use of institutional repository systems to complex data integration challenges across the research information entity model, this presentation traces the evolution of CRIS/RIM data needs and related quality issues over the past decade.

EU-LIFE ERC Masterclass for junior applicants

EU-LIFE Online ERC Masterclass: sharing our experience to boost successful Starting and Consolidator applicants

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

The Grants Officers from 15 top-level institutes belonging to the EU-LIFE alliance pool their expertise, share their knowledge and best practices in a masterclass aimed at ERC Starting and Consolidator applicants.

Essential PM practices for R&I Projects

Essential Project Management Practices for Collaborative Research and Innovation Projects

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

Collaborative Research and Innovation (R& I) projects pose distinct challenges when it comes to understanding and articulating the value of project management (PM) practices in delivering the anticipated benefits to stakeholders. We will be presenting the results of a study that seeks to enhance our

Fundraising as basic literacy skill

Should "fundraising" skills be a pre-requisite for Early Career Researchers?

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

Proposal writing and fundraising skills are becoming an essential skillset for senior researchers willing to build a team, or even to remain in academia. Yet PhD's and early career researchers frequently discover these skills much too late into their career progression.

GROWing research results

Utilizing the GROW model for coaching in a cross-disciplinary research project

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

RMAs can offer support and tools in the post-award phase to help bring focus into the project. This presentation describes the case of a multi-disciplinary, 40-member group and the GROW model for coaching.

Hosting international staff exchange guests

How to support staff exchange matchmaking and facilitate mutual learning

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Collaboration and Strategic Alliances

International staff exchange is a great possibility for gaining new ideas and building networks, however, it can be a challenging task to arrange. This session discusses the lessons learned from staff exchange visits and what to consider for a mutually beneficial experience.

Impact of innovation at research infrastructures

CASEIA: Measuring the socio-economic impact of innovation at research infrastructures for natural sciences

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Leadership

CASEIA is a pilot for a comprehensive impact study, applicable to future innovation interventions at large research infrastructures. As a qualitative study, it complements quantitative econometric methods. We have tested our methodology, instruments and analytical framework on three case-studies.

Interactive Impact Kickstart Workshops

Interactive Impact Kickstart Workshops - from scratch to success

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

A new interactive workshop for kickstarting Impact was piloted with good results. Three main goals achieved: 1) successfully targeting the top scientists 2) integrating impact perspective from start 3) output directly useful for proposal writing. The session explains why, what and how.

Late to the impact agenda

Getting (belatedly) ready for the impact agenda: The case of Iceland

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Leadership

Using Marta Wróblewska’s framework of four “impact readiness levels” I present an analysis of how a whole national research system is preparing for a large-scale societal impact framework for research evaluation and funding, and the role of research managers in past and future developments.

Lead the way, RMA!

Lead the way, RMA! The recognition of RMAs is already here. And it serves many purposes.

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: Leadership

With RMA professional recognition stronger than ever for R&I institutions, with enlarged networks, focused training, and world associations, is it time we step up and make the profession recognizable as a powerful career and RMAs as an asset to different positions in different institutions?

Lessons learned in bid development support

Lessons learned from supporting academic staff new to the EU grants culture to develop internationally collaborative Horizon Europe proposals

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

This case study will share how Durham University provides targeted advice to new senior staff who are interested in developing Horizon Europe Pillar 2 proposals. It will highlight what strategies and tools are employed to support academics, and how this approach has been received by those academics.

Myth busting the PI role in an ERC application

Adapting myth busting strategies incorporating the recent changes to ERC application focal points to support PIs

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

In 2024 calls the ERC made changes that reflect the focus on the idea, while the PIs track works as a feasibility factor to support it. We share experiences on how to accommodate support strategies to highlight ERC applicants role as one of the cornerstones supporting the idea.

National Recovery and Resilience plan:a case study

The usage of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan: the setting up and opening of National Center for Gene Therapy and based RNA Technology Drugs in the city of Padua

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

The University of Padua was the coordinator of a huge project including public, private and business entities from all over Italy funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) which is part of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) program.

Pathways to Funding

Translating the experience of funding managers into to proactive career training for early career researchers

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Transversal)

Pathways to Funding is a training scheme allowing early career researchers to learn directly from highly experienced pre-award funding managers, highlighting benefits that can be achieved through transversal transfer of knowledge from pre-award experts contributing to implementation-phase training.

Post Award in a changing world

How to prepare a Post Award team for the ever evolving landscape of funder rules and regulations

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

Most Post award teams, cover EU funding and most often also other funders that have an international element. The presentation will discuss how to set up an agile research support team and how a restructure can help institute to deliver a end to end service and be ready to support different grant ty

Project Control

Project Control: from pre-award to post-award management. The Fraunhofer Portugal's use case.

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: IT Systems and tools supporting RMA now and in the future

Project Control is a collaborative web application used for managing funded projects throughout their life cycle. It simplifies and organizes the management of funded projects. Developed and being used by Fraunhofer Portugal for 10 years now, it has become an indispensable tool for managing research

Project management at its best

How the additional qualification of RMAs can help principal investigators to successfully handle complex projects and teams.

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

To enable researchers to focus on the scientific content, Graz University of Technology has established a Project Management support service. IPMA (International Project Management Association) certified RMAs accompany research projects from the start, using key project management techniques.

Research assessment system in practice

Research assessment system in Centre for Social Sciences: evaluation, motivation, utilization

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Introduction of the main features, introduction and reception of a research assessment system that has been in operation at Centre for Social Sciences since 2013 showing how the evaluation system can orient the activities of researchers.

Research ethics reviews: Dilemmas and decision aid

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: Open Science

Ethics reviews are conducted by RECs, often with the support of research ethics professionals. The review process can be filled with dilemmas and conflicting interests that need to be managed in a fair and balanced manner. The presentation showcases a decision aid tool created to address this issue.

Should Research Data Management be free or costed

The Research Data Management Process: Freemium or Costed? An Irish Technological University example

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

The jury is out as to whether the time spent by researchers on the Data Management process should be costed or not, and this is becoming an emerging debate within the research management community. This paper examines this question within the context of an Irish Technological University.

Storytelling and Stakeholders in Research Grants

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Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

This presentation explores how research administrators can use trending storytelling strategies to help the researchers engage with potential reviewers when writing a grant proposal. Drawing on insights from narratology and sociolinguistics, we will highlight concepts that define proposal writing.

Success Rates and European Commission funding

Success Rates and European Commission funding: An Institutional Approach

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

We will look at how we have encouraged and supported PIs at our institutions to submit high quality EC applications, both at an individual level and through a systematic approach to increasing our success rates.

Supporting Open access in RMS

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: Open Science

Research management systems (RMS) focus on helping Institutions to easily manage the activities and output of their researchers. To this purpose, an RMS can support a number of features aimed at handling your Institution's Open Access content; including import, endpoints, showcasing and reporting.

Top 5 Audit Risks for USG Funding

Top 5 Audit Risks for European Institutions Who Receive US Government Funds

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

The US government expects an extraordinary level of transparency, openness, and accountability by recipients of US government research funds -- including European institutions that are recipients or subrecipients of US grant funds.

What is academic quality, really?

How can we contribute to the ongoing comprehensive advancement of research assessment, locally, nationally and globally?

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Open Science

The pace, depth and width of the present reform process in research assessment is astonishing. How to translate this process into the institutional and national context, create local involvement, as well as contribute to the overall reform internationally? Where are we and what remains to be done?

“Automation: A threat or an advantage?”

“Automation: A threat or an advantage?” dispelling the myths

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: IT Systems and tools supporting RMA now and in the future

Technology has significantly revolutionized research grants administration, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency both in the pre-award and post-award stages. Here's how technology has advanced research grants administration over the years, considering both pre & post-award perspective

A Sabbatical in Research Management USA-CH

A Sabbatical in Research Management

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Results, experiences and learnings from three months Sabbatical Stay in Research Management from ETH Zürich (Switzerland) to Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (California)

Nudging crazy professors towards pragmatism

Nudging crazy ideas of professors towards pragmatic MSCA DN proposals by learning from experience

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

In a world where projects are increasingly complex and proposals required societal impact on society for the planet, pragmatism is often ignored. MSCA projects are executed and MSCA proposals are written, but the lessons learned are easily forgotten. Therefore: “How to nudge Principle Investigators

Redefining My Career Pathway

Embracing Personal Values for Purposeful Career Growth: A Journey in Research Management and Administration

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Leadership

Explore the impact of personal values on career growth in RMA with an EU programme manager. Join this interactive session to uncover transformative strategies and create a purpose-driven approach to your role. Let's embrace personal values for impactful careers!

Shortcut to facilitating goal-oriented workshops

Elevating your Facilitation Skills: a 60- minute crash course

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Operations and Planning

Get ten proven hacks for facilitating workshops that achieve their goals. Use our blueprint for your next proposal writing session or adapt it to any other topic. See ready-made templates for overview and direction. This session is for RMAs who want to create more engaging and effective meetings.

10 pitfalls of the MSCA and how to avoid them

How not to lose your mind when preparing, managing and following up an MSCA Grant (and if you can, develop a viable institutional strategy!)

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Transversal)

This presentation showcases the 10 most common challenges when preparing, managing and following up a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Grant (Postdoctoral Fellowships, Cofund and Doctoral Networks), based on more than a decade of experience of management and coordination for various institutions.

A Strategy to boost Research Funding Success

Establishment of the Strategic Areas support team: implementation, challenges and success in a widening country

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

At the University of Coimbra (UC) a pre-award team was created to improve UC excellence in scientific research and collaboration in international funding programs. The Research Managers team's initiatives, support, and challenges will be presented, along with their impacts on research performance.

A nationwide approach to integrity training

Elevating Research Integrity Through National Collaboration: A 5-Year Case Study from Ireland on Research Integrity training in University of Galway, as part of a National Training Consortium

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Open Science

In this short talk, we will bring the audience through the 5-year journey of establishing a robust training programme in Research Integrity at University of Galway, as part of a nationwide initiative, from the perspective of an RMA. The dynamic and varied RMA profession continues to diversify, provi

A structured approach to EDI for RSOs

A model for the everything, everywhere, all at once of diversity for RSOs.

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Other

Topic: Operations and Planning

Diversity is the new normal and covers many different aspects of the work in the RSO. A lot of the development has happened in a fairly short time, and many RSO’s have been caught off guard. We present a model for developing a comprehensive step by step approach to support this work.

Boosting Early-Career Research in Strategic Areas

Seed Projects: Boosting Innovative and Original Ideas of Early-Career Researchers

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Professional and Career Development

SeedProjects@UC is a university-wide initiative to fund scientific research proposed by early-career researchers in strategic areas. It aims to provide funding and support for interdisciplinary original ideas and opportunities for proof of concept, which then lead to groundbreaking R&D projects.

Boosting the project management competences of PIs

Boosting the project management competences of PIs:a quest towards equilibrium of research and management

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Leadership

Principal Investigators (PIs) play a crucial role in driving contemporary research while simultaneously managing complex project components. The article delves into the imperative task of enhancing the project management proficiency of PIs.

Digitalisation in the office

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Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: IT Systems and tools supporting RMA now and in the future

This presentation explores the practical implementation, benefits, and colleague acceptance of the cloud-based project management tool Monday.com in a research department. The talk outlines how the tool was evaluated, introduced, and highlights several use cases: HR, onboarding and purchasing.

Don’t underestimate Concept Notes

A vital tool in Proposal Development

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

Focusing on the formation stage of the ERINN Proposal Development Lifecycle, we present the vital step of developing a concept note in the early stages of proposal development to ensure maximum efficiency and alignment to the call topic.

ERC: Excellence needs to be coached

Excellent scientists become more successful in highly competitive ERC grants while coached.

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

The prestigious ERC grants are awarded to excellent scientists, opening up new opportunities for their careers. But is excellence enough to win? I will present 3 reasons why excellent scientists must be coached to go successfully through this fierce competition and 3 steps of coaching ERC candidates

Effective services for research infrastructures

Creating effective support services for research infrastructures

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Operations and Planning

This presentation describes how the lab support arm of the Research Support Services Directorate at the University of Malta supports researchers through centralised lab support services that include waste management, SOP management, asset inventories, Health and Safety and lab-related training.

Empowering doctoral candidates for funding success

Empowering doctoral candidates for funding success – the role of the Research Managers

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

This paper focuses on two challenging aspects of successful doctoral education, (i) recruitment of talented researchers and (ii) securing funding to support those researchers.

Experiences with Research Improv

An experimental method to stimulate interdisciplinary research ideas amongst young researchers

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Operations and Planning

In Research Improv, five researchers of random disciplines are placed in a room and asked to collaboratively produce an idea for a interdisciplinary research project that highlights each researcher's strengths. This session will summarize experiences and the success of the concept.

How can FAIR data get us further, faster?

Furthering the pursuit of knowledge with FAIR data in a rapidly changing world.

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: IT Systems and tools supporting RMA now and in the future

This presentation will highlight how there has never been a more important time for research managers and administrators to engage proficiently with the FAIR principles, showcasing how when research data interopts with machines, huge advancements can be made.

How to best support Early-Stage Career Researchers

How to best support Early-Stage Career Researchers?

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Professional and Career Development

In this Pecha Kucha we will tell you about the support that we, a pre-award team of 5 research advisors at the University of Coimbra (UC) in Portugal, have been crafting for early career researchers.

Institutional Staff Development Schemes at HUN-REN

A vision on international development of research staff at HUN-REN by introducing new schemes within institutional administration

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Professional and Career Development

HUN-REN (previously ELKH) started its activity in 2019, following which a gradual development of institutional structures and staff management was envisaged in order to enhance the efficciency of research activity and achieve a better embedment into European structures and procedures.

Measuring impact of Gender Equality Plans

Measuring impact of Gender Equality Plans - Introduction of a comprehensive Gender Audit Tool

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Operations and Planning

As part of the Horizon 2020 funded EQUAL4EUROPE project, Nehem developed and implemented an impartial assessment methodology to track progress of Gender Equality Plans, i.e. the Gender Audit Tool (GAT). The GAT is based on an extensive body of research and is compliant with Horizon Europe criteria.

Project management practices - MSCA Staff exchange

Addressing Challenges and Resilience in Project Management Practices within MSCA Staff Exchanges Project

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

Success in projects depends on clear goals and alignment with partners. In the context of MSCA staff exchanges projects, the project manager must ensure the feasibility and alignment of objectives with the financial and administrative constraints inherent to this type of project.

RMA for science diplomacy

RMA-based policymaking as an effective tool for science diplomacy

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Operations and Planning

RMAs play a pivotal role in science diplomacy by facilitating research activities, managing resources, and nurturing interdisciplinary collaborations within their institutions. However, their potential to impact global challenges has not yet been acknowledged and applied to its fullest extent.

Research Funders and Diversity in Academia

Which funders use research funding as a tool to promote diversity in the research workforce?

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

As a research funding database, we collect data on which funders offer grants and awards dedicated to diversity in academia. An increasing number of funders have funding dedicated to women or underrepresented groups. Learn about how to support diversity using dedicated funding instruments.

Research Impact through stakeholders’ engagement

A co-creation process to increase the impact of applied research

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Operations and Planning

Applied research strives for societal impact beyond academia. Laimburg Research Centre shares a best-practice case on initiatives aiming at boosting impact by involving stakeholders in research projects through a co-creation process.

Research Managers' roles in Portugal

Research Managers' roles in Portugal: Are they prepared for the future?

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Research Managers' and Administrators' roles and tasks go far beyond what is written on their contracts. The exact roles and the extension of the time dedicated to each role/task are not well known. To understand the reality of the RMA roles/tasks in Portugal, a questionnaire was launched.

Research activities and RM’s role – a case study

Research Manager as a Matryoshka: pull out of the hat one of the puppets

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

After the first Pecha Kucha on “Research Manager as a Matryoshka? What is behind the research manager profile?” (2023), this second appointment aims to consider one of the several Matryoshkas: a specific case on privacy issues in the post-award phase to figure out the potential RM’s roles.

Supporting the development of young researchers

PhD Support Structure – RMA helping the development of young researcher’s career

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Leadership

There is growing concern about research culture and the future of the scientific research workforce. what can research management do to support young researchers?

The CODE PLAN

Organizational evolution plan "CODE PLAN" at ISGlobal, Barcelona

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Defining an evolving organization able to adapting to the new challenges and to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary answer to the scientific questions Through the organizational architecture, the culture of the institution and focused on people and teams.

The UNIVE Research Knowledge Community

"Research Knowledge Community" (RKC): organizational “entry point” to bridge the gap between Pre-Award and Post-Award in research management

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Operations and Planning

The Research Knowledge Community (RKC) aims to bridge the gap between university offices through a process and result-oriented approach. It establishes a shared language among various areas of expertise and brings together professionals (RMA) involved in the Research Services value chain.

The cross-cutting for the RM in medical field

The cross-cutting aspects of research in the medical field that enrich the role of the RM

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Case Study

Topic: Professional and Career Development

In this abstract we would like to illustrate the challenges that Research Managers at the University of Bologna have encountered while managing projects related to the medical field and how these cross-cutting aspects enrich the career of the RM

Unpacking Reporting in Horizon Europe

Unpacking Reporting in Horizon Europe - A Comparative Analysis with H2020

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Other

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Post-Award)

This session is crafted to provide an overview of the Horizon Europe project's reporting procedure, empowering seasoned RMAs to identify the contrasts with past practices.

Winning NIH grants: how to make a start?

Deciphering the NIH grant process and driving your researchers to US-government health awards

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Pre-Award)

Biomedical research institutions know how prestigious it is to win NIH-National Institutes of Health awards (US), but can fear the complexity of its grant process. This presentation aims to give clues to RMAs that are not familiar with NIH funds but want their institutions to go for it.

Certified Project Manager online course

Certified Project Manager online course supporting R&I work in a Finnish UAS

Format: Poster

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Transversal)

This presentation will show how research support services can support R&I project managers more effectively and with limited resources.

EUROPEAN RESEARCH THURSDAYS

THE TRAINING PROGRAMME ON HORIZON EUROPE ORGANISED BY UNIVERSITA’ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE FOR ITS RESEARCHERS ACROSS DIFFERENT CAMPUSES

Format: Poster

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Transversal)

Along with the start of the Horizon Europe Programme Università Cattolica initiated a new info/training programme named “I giovedì della Ricerca Europea”. The poster includes a deeper analysis on how the programme has been organised and additional analysis on the researchers participation.

Succeed and Lead

Striving for academic, research and career development in a postdoctoral programme: Acknowledging transitions

Format: Poster

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Research Cycle Support Services (Transversal)

The purpose of this paper is to share the design, development and implementation of a postdoctoral program aimed at developing leadership, enhancing research performance and supporting the career development of early-career PDRs.