ALBA Synchrotron
Research Management and Administrative Procedures
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Bárbara Machado Calisto
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ALBA Synchrotron
FUNLAYERS, the Functional Layered Materials for Advanced Applications project, consists of a European initiative aimed at leverage the interdisciplinary scientific excellence and innovation capacity of INL and strengthen partners’ research in the field of layered materials, capturing future opportunities for joint collaboration in R&I.
The FUNLAYERS Project has a dedicated Work Package aiming at Strengthening Research Management Capacities and Administrative Skills of all partners, and, in particular of INL.
One of the objectives of this WP is to benchmark among the partners (INL, ALBA-CELLS, and Max Planck Institute) the capacities of research management to exchange best practices among the partner´s support units to better manage research, optimise administrative processes, as well as identifying collaboration opportunities.
To achieve it, a Research Management Diagnosis Workshop has held at INL in January 2023, which benchmarked the research management practices and administrative processes of the three partners. The result of this workshop was a report on good practices and recommendations in research management and administrative procedures, with the objectives of:
- sharing of practices in Research Management and Administrative tools between the partners to get to know each other’s and be on the same page,
- having a full overview of INL’s Management and Administrative skills, and
- identifying topics to be further developed at INL in terms of research management and administrative procedures.
In this first assessment, it was identified the strengths, weaknesses, and gaps, followed by a few recommendations, in each of the following topics:
- Access to Core Facilities
- IP & Knowledge Transfer
- Funding Acquisition & Project Management
- Research Data Management
This workshop:
Follow-up Research Management Workshop at the permises of the ALBA Synchrotron, to be held in April 18-19, 2024. In this workshop, target to the support units of the three project partners, we´ll go deeper in the topics discussed in the first workshop, including other related topics, with interactive group discussions and case studies, highlighting successful research management practices. The result from this action will be a comprehensive Action Plan to optimise research support activities at INL.
Main goal:
Prepare a comprehensive Action Plan to optimise research support activities at INL.