Event Date and Time: October 7, 2025 (19:00 h) - October 9, 2024 (13:00 h)
Event Location: EARMA Event Space
Event Address: Rue des Colonies 56, Brussels, Belgium
Agenda: It will be shared soon.
Member participation fee: 760 Euro + VAT (whole programme incl. meals)
Non-member participation fee: 990 Euro + VAT (whole programme incl. meals)
At own expense: Transport and accommodation
Purpose of the Event
Leading the provision of excellent research support to excellent researchers is both demanding and rewarding. You and your teams sit in the nexus of competing demands from funders, researchers, employers, ministries, commercial stakeholders, and the taxpayer. Furthermore, we find ourselves in a world with increasing economic and geopolitical uncertainties. Converting your strategic intent into serviceable interventions in that environment is a constant challenge. As a leader, you will often find yourself in the ultimate ‘alone in the office’ scenario.
EARMA’s, tailor-made ‘Leadership in Research Event’ is designed to support you in finding your role as a leader in order to deal with these issues while giving you the time and the space to think and reflect. Through a blend of key-note presentations, peer working and learning groups, and networking opportunities you will see how your peers cope and what you can learn from them to bring back to your work. The ‘Leadership in Research Event’ does not end on the last day. There is a growing cohort of alumni who continue to contribute to the programme and who are regular contributors to a ‘Leadership’ strand in the European community of research managers.
Participants
The target group for the leadership event is the experienced leaders with 4 years of experience in their leadership role, equivalent to RM 4 of the Cardea Competence Framework. However, consideration will be given to applicants who are not currently serving in leadership posts with a desire to take the next step into a leadership role.
We invite managers and leaders from research, grants, or sponsored programme offices at research organisations like universities, research institutions, research councils and funding agencies. The group will consist of up to 28 new leaders, either as formally responsible for RMA staff or functionally managing RMA networks or project teams.
Building your career
Both newcomers and former participants will gain valuable experience either building on top of previous Leadership Events or establishing a foundation for becoming a professional Leader in Research.
Programme elements
Practical Information
The EARMA Office is only a 5-minute walk from Gare Centrale. Situated across from Brussels Park, it offers easy access to nature's beauty. Moreover, the Office enjoys excellent transportation links, allowing guests to effortlessly explore the city's attractions via metros, buses, trams, and taxis.
If accommodation is needed, we recommend staying in the Motel One Brussels or Pillows City Hotel Brussels Centre just a couple of minutes from the EARMA office, or in a close area where good options are 9Hotel Central, Hotel Hubert Grand Place, or Hilton Brussels Grand Place.
Travel Information
Event participants are kindly invited to consider using sustainable transportation options if possible. The train is a green alternative that provides a pleasant travel experience. Train travel is particularly practical from cities such as those listed below, all offering convenient connections to Brussels. You can find routes for the mentioned locations, as well as other destinations, and book your tickets here.
- - Paris: 1 hour 30 minutes
- - Amsterdam: 2 hours
- - London: 2 hours
- - Cologne: 2 hours
- - Lyon: 3 hours 45 minutes
- - Zurich: 6 hours
- - Hamburg: 6 hours 30 minutes
- - Berlin: 6 hours 45 minutes
- - Munich: 7 hours
Moderation Team
This is a tailor-made, one-of-a-kind event developed by experienced EARMA leaders based on the experience of previous EARMA leadership events.
Evelina Brännvall, PhD is an Immediate Past Chairwomen of EARMA. She is an Adjunct Professor at the division of Waste Science and Technology, Head of LTU European Office and a Senior Research Manager at Grants Office of Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden. In her roles she supports the university's leadership and researchers in Research & Innovation Policies, external funding issues as well as positioning of LTU at EU affairs. She has one PhD in Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management (Lithuania, 2006) and another one in Waste Science and Technology (Sweden, 2013). Evelina has been on various EARMA Committees, graduating the first cohort of the EARMA Certificate Programme in Research Management. She has been on the Annual Conference Programme Committee since the very beginning and chaired it for two years. She is a co-organiser of EARMA Leadership programme as well as a member of the EARMA Policy and Representation Standing Committee.
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.
Ragnar Lie is Senior Advisor at Universites Norway, the Norwegian “rectors conference”, working with topics like research policies, open science, research administration and management, career policies and leadership development. He has worked in the higher educational sector for more than 30 years; first at The Research Council of Norway, then at University of Oslo, (both at center,- faculty, and central level), and, since 2011, at Universities Norway. In EARMA he has previous been engaged in in the Professional Development and Recognition Committee and in the Board, and presently in the Annual Programme Conference Committee as well as the organizing committee for the Leadership Event. He holds a degree in Political Science from Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
Stefania Elisabeth Grotti
Invited Speaker
- Thomas Estermann - Director, Governance, Funding and Public Policy Development, European University Association
Any queries?
Don't hesitate to email earma@earma.org.
