RItrainPlus project brings together, for the first time, research infrastructures, core facilities, business management Schools and European universities, to empower human resources for international scientific facilities in Europe.
To identify the training needs and define the competency profile RItrainPLus performed a quantitative online-survey among 330 members of Research Infrastructures and Core Facilities followed by qualitative guided interviews among managers from eight structurally selected countries.
https://zenodo.org/record/7542429#.Y-FTcezMLlw(opens in new window)Then, to achieve objective 1, RI, CF and Universities jointly developed training schemes, necessary learning resources and policies for acquiring the necessary transversal skills needed by operators and managers of RI and CF. The key outcome is the development of a set of standardized, certifiable, student-centred Learning Activities, that will be available to all European Universities for embedding in existing university programs at different EQF levels to form an innovative, flexible and certifiable European Longitudinal Learning Track (LLT).
For objective 2, RItrainPlus brought together key experts of RI and CF, Universities, and stakeholders’ organizations with the needed expertise in management to define Continuous Professional Development courses for management of RI and CF as "formal learning" activities. These courses are complemented by a trainers’ kit to allow other providers to replicate and to ensure the scalability of the CPD Courses.
These courses enables RIs and CFs across all domains to gain expertise in an international RI context on RI & CF Management, Team building and development, Socio-economic impact of RIs, Data policy and management, Communication and stakeholder engagement, Innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement with industry, ELSI.
A staff and knowledge exchange with a short-term mobility program at different RI/CF locations was developed to promote the "learning on the job" approach and a community of practice was set up to structure opportunities of knowledge and best practices sharing, through a "peer learning" approach. For the time being 2 staff exchanges have been realized, 2 webinars have been recorded and 2 knowledge workshops have been organized.
To achieve objective 3 a workshop was held on May 2022 with the participation of key stakeholders and leaders in the field, such as university and policy representatives at national and international level. The agenda covered topics ranging from the overall scientific training landscape, highlighting the (political) need of a school. Aspects such as accreditation, course focus (knowledge, skills, methods, governance, and management practice within RI), course delivery, training sustainability and exchange programs were also covered. The workshop outcome was a clear understanding of the necessities and requirements.
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