EARMA Conference Odense 2024

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An RMA Odyssey: Could a swim duck?

A day in the life of the research administrator, Leopold Bloom

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Jan Andersen

This session uses one of the worlds most challenging book, Ulysses, to view and discuss a day in the life of a research administrator. The mindboggling people he meets on his way and his endeavor to successfully deliver a proposal. All in the package of a surprising language that you also meet.

CARDEA Framework for Research Manager Careers

CARDEA Framework for Research Manager Careers (RM1 to RM4)

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Mary Kate O'Regan

Action 17-Pact for Research “Enhancing the strategic capacity of Europe’s public research performing and funding organisations” creates a mechanism to introduce a framework for empowering career architecture for Research Manager Careers. This is a revolutionary Framework inclusive of progression!

Data Is the New Gold - DING!

How to transform your application and award data into strategic info for management and at the same time use the data for optimizing daily RSO advice to departments/researchers & internal work flow.

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

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

Henrik Engell-Hedager

The collection, analysis and use of application and award data makes us better in prioritising our advice and it gaps shortcomings when it comes to external funding.

RSO will show hands-on examples of:

Management statistics for strategic decisions
Profiling of departments
Impact of RSO work

Data Quality through APIs

Data Quality or: How I learned to stop worrying and love APIs

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

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

Eoin Kilfeather

Migrating our data from our institutional repository to a new CRIS we found that key data about articles (and other outputs) was held in unstructured fields. We used Crossref and OpenAI’s API to enrich our data source and mitigate what would have been a long and tedious manual DQ exercise.

Establishing an RMA professional development speci

Establishing an RMA professional development special interest group and framework

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Dr. Julia Thidamarth Vilstrup Mouatt

Learnings so far from establishing an RMA professional development special interest group which will develop an induction experience for new RMA staff and develop an RMA capabilities framework.

Make Research Infrastructure Count

Make Research Infrastructure Count

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

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

Petra Dickhaut

TU Eindhoven puts Research Infrastructure (RI) at the core of our innovation and economic development mission. We present our integrated system to manage and book equipment, while automatically tracking related research outputs, to evaluate the impact of RI investments and showcase it.

Mastering RMA: A Dual Journey Through STEM and SSH

Mastering RMA: A Dual Journey Through STEM and SSH

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Ms Joanna Kartasiewicz

The session features the RMA role in STEM and SSH, highlighting insights and practical takeaways from experiences in these two distinct academic domains.

RMA Responsibilities, Skills, and Job Satisfaction

Identifying Responsibilities, Skills, Job Satisfaction, and Success Levels of RMAs in Türkiye

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Saban Caytas

Based on elite interviews and surveys with the RMA professionals in Türkiye, this presentation aims to identify a comprehensive list of RMA responsibilities and skills and explore the interface between these responsibilities, skills, and job satisfaction levels of RMAs in Türkiye.

RMA profession: past, present, what’s next?

RMA transversal roles: past, present, what’s next? A review of the literature and practical cases.

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: 2. Theoretical

Topic: Professional and Career Development

PhD Silvia Fittipaldi

The RMAs profession has showed a high rate of change during the last decades and RM has transformed from a primarily administrative function to a multidisciplinary profession. However, a definition of the role is far from universal, leading to a fragmented professional development.

The contribution of RMAs to identity & profession

The contribution of RMAs to their collective identity and to the advancement of the profession

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: 2. Theoretical

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Patrizia Rampioni

How do RMAs contribute to the creation and sharing of knowledge in their workplaces and communities, relevant to the advancement of their collective professional identity?

The evolving landscape of research assessment and

How CRIS/RMS could help Research managers and administrators on reforming research assessment

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Other

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

Nicolaj Lock

DORA and CoARA is changing how research assessment should be done, to ensure a fair and inclusive process. These processes must be implemented at the research institutions, and this is providing a set of challenges that research managers and administrators are facing. CRIS systems should enable rese

UCL Case Study: Global Research Capacity Building

Harnessing Research Management to Foster Global Equitable Partnerships - A Pilot project

Format: Oral 30 Minutes

Category: Case Study

Topic: Collaboration and Strategic Alliances

Helen Hopkins

The Research Capacity Strengthening Pilot Project is centred on professional services staff’s role in delivering global research. It aims to strengthen research management ecosystems. The pilot included bidirectional fellowship with partners in South Africa, future plans include expansion.

Blueprint for Growth

Blueprint for Growth: The SRAI Professional Development Framework Journey

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Professional and Career Development

Evan Roberts

In this session we delve into Society of Research Administrators International's (SRAI) ambitious project to establish a Professional Development Framework tailored for research administrators. This interactive session will spotlight crucial aspects of the initiative, from planning to deployment,

Challenges in Transnational Research Support

Transnational European Support Offices: challenges and risks when Research Support crosses borders

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Collaboration and Strategic Alliances

Laura Paternoster

ECIU and Unite! share and discuss with conference participants their challenges, risks, solutions, good practices in collaboration in research Management and in developing Support Office at the Alliance's level. The challenges comprise strategy, leadership, resources and commitment affairs

How can RMAs contribute to building EUAs?

How can Research Managers and Administrators contribute to build European Universities Alliances? How strategic R&I and our roles are to help their growth and consolidation?

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: Good Practice

Topic: Collaboration and Strategic Alliances

Ignasi Salvado

We will discuss the role of RMAs in EUAs, focusing on (a) Best practices, (b) R&I agendas implementation, (c) Equal importance of education, R&I and their interactions, (d) Opportunities for alliances to advance the ERA. We will address common future challenges and ways to address them.

Insight in funding performance for RMA’s

Funding insights and benchmarking, how to stay up to date with your funding performance.

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

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

Dr. Christian Jagersma

Benchmarking and performance analyses are difficult but needed in this highly competitive research environment. With a group of other University medical centers and Universities we have developed a tailormade independent dashboard where organisations can combine information from various funders.

Valorisation of Widening research results

Valorisation of research results – how to make it successful in Widening countries?

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Operations and Planning

Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk

The panel discussion will analyse barriers and bottlenecks impacting the valorisation of research results in Widening countries. Remedy meassures like Dissemination and Exploitation Facility will be presented. Best practices from Czechia and Poland to inspire others will be elaborated as well.

Your ticket towards Europe

Dutch pilot for seed funding University of Applied Sciences for better participation in European research consortia

Format: Oral 60 Minutes

Category: New Initiative

Topic: Operations and Planning

Dr. Maren Pannemann

What are the pitfalls and strengths of Universities of Applied Sciences engaging with EU subsidies? This interactive session illustrates the effect of a pilot programme by the Dutch Research Council and is both of interest for RMAs as for policy officers affiliated to national funding organizations.

Unlocking Horizon Europe

Unlocking Horizon Europe: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges for New Zealand Research Organisations

Format: Pecha Kucha

Category: Other

Topic: Operations and Planning

Eszter Muradin

In 2023 New Zealand became associated with Pillar 2 of Horizon Europe. While this step opens significant opportunities for research organisations, it also ushers in a set of challenges. Institutions must take a strategic and long-term approach to succeed in the Programme as an Associated Country.