Descripción del proyecto
Apoyo a la gestión profesional de la investigación
Los gestores de investigación desempeñan un papel fundamental para lograr los objetivos europeos en materia de investigación e innovación. Sin embargo, como profesión, la gestión de la investigación es casi invisible. Además, la coherencia entre los países de la Unión Europea (UE) en cuanto a políticas, condiciones de empleo y trayectorias profesionales es casi inexistente. El equipo del proyecto Cardea, financiado con fondos europeos, examinará este problema, elaborará recomendaciones y, en último término, mejorará la paridad de estima de los gestores de investigación. En concreto, para caracterizar el problema, se empleará un método de definición del espacio del conocimiento fundamentado en datos, que se basará en una gran encuesta con más de quinientos participantes y en entrevistas cualitativas en toda la UE. Los resultados se utilizarán para desarrollar una variedad de soluciones destinadas a mejorar la profesión de la gestión de la investigación. En Cardea se creará una red y un centro para facilitar la colaboración y se elaborarán unas normas para garantizar el desarrollo futuro de la gestión de la investigación de forma estructurada.
Objetivo
Cardea is the Roman Goddess of door pivots, ideal to describe our project to develop Research Managers (RM) who strengthen Europe's R&I excellence through a diverse set of support roles and responsibilities. Research Management as a profession is almost invisible from policy, career progression and tenure opportunities across Europe. Also, there is little consistency between countries, funders, policymakers and individual institutions.
Cardea will develop supports to address this inequality. Our consortium has enjoyed considerable success doing this for Researchers already. We will create a detailed data-driven (500+ participants, 24 countries) knowledge space-defining and characterising the problem. Based on this, we will develop a range of solutions, including a Capacity Maturity Model to assess and improve RM activities, a novel RM Hub for networking and training to include a community of practice. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Widening Participation (EU13), Public-Private partnership actions will be at the core of our research, training and enhancement activities.
Additionally, the mobility and networking of RM and those with responsibility for developing RMs will be included to ensure the RM ecosystem grows transnationally. We will learn from each other and support one another in bringing RM careers to the next level. Significantly these actions will provide a significant evidence base to advocate the inclusion of RM exigences in policy, and we will target this proactively, targeting 38 key decision making organisations.
Amongst the impacts of Cardea will be an enduring network and Hub that can facilitate RM development and collaboration, a validated methodology to assess RM careers and a well-established baseline against which improvements can be objectively measured. This allows us to develop an RM Charter and offer a Concordat to institutions and organisations that make significant commitments to developing RM activities in a structured, mature manner.
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