Event date: September 25, 2024
Event time: 14:00-14:45 CEST
Registration: This event is free of charge, but as for all our events, registration is required. Just click on the yellow button at the top of this page and see here how to access the event.
Purpose of the event: To celebrate International Research Administrators Day 2024 with the EARMA community in the best possible way!
Event Description:
The EARMA Campfire Events are a very informal way to gather the EARMA community together online to network and have fun. What could be a better way to celebrate together? The celebrations of International Research Administrators Day have increased in visibility globally, and this year's event is the third EARMA Campfire Event held in recognition of International Research Administrators Day.
Come and join us for as long or short as you can during the above-indicated time, and let's have a good time together, releasing positive energy from the sharing of fun and remarkable stories from our real lives as research administrators.
Participants will be encouraged to participate by sharing some of the realities of being an RMA using stories. These stories can be short (01 minute up to 05 minutes). The idea is to learn about the life of an RMA.
Examples include:
Quotations
The stories could be quotations (When is the deadline? Yesterday).
‘There is only one way to deal with a bureaucrat - be a better bureaucrat’.
Observations
Example: How researchers become energised near a deadline.
Advice
What advice would you give to your younger self if you were starting out again as an RMA?
Funny Stories
Things that made you laugh in the job of RMA.
Speaker
Jan Andersen, Senior Executive Officer, University of Southern Denmark, former EARMA Chair and current member of the steering committee for the EARMA Leadership Program. He was a DARMA Board member and founder and chair of BESTPRAC, Head of the INORMS WG on Organisational Development. He worked in RMA since 1994, whereof 20 years with the University of Copenhagen. Jan was conceptualising the Research Information System PURE. Jan is part of the EARMA Pasta Making Event, and received the EARMA Lifetime Achievement Award 2022.
Chair
Dr. Juliane Sauer is the director of the EU project consultancy ‘OxygenEUm’ with a focus on the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). She has long standing expertise in the MSCA from several perspectives: She was Swiss National Contact Point for the MSCA from 2008 to 2016 where she coordinated the CSA ‘Net4Mobility’ and supported the Swiss scientific community with a wide array of supporting measures. She continued her project coordination and management experience with leading functions for the Cofund postdoctoral fellowship scheme ‘Empapostdocs-II’ at the Swiss Institute for Materials Science EMPA and the ITN ‘MOQS’ under the lead of Strasbourg University. Juliane has contributed to various high-level events within the MSCA community (EU presidency conferences, stakeholder meetings, MCAA conferences etc.) and holds additional expertise in science communication and the gender dimension in research. She holds a PhD in communication science and lives in Bern with her family. Juliane loves dancing, reading crime novels, and baking.
For further information and queries: Don't hesitate to contact events@earma.org.
