Project description
Support for professional research management
Research managers are essential for the success of Europe’s research and innovation ambitions. However, as a profession, research management is almost invisible. There is also little consistency between EU countries in policy, employment conditions and professional pathways. The EU-funded Cardea project will explore this issue, develop recommendations and ultimately improve parity of esteem for research managers. Specifically, the project will carry out a data-driven knowledge space defining approach to characterise the problem. This will be based on an extensive survey with over 500 participants and qualitative interviews across the EU. The results will be used to develop a range of solutions to improve research management careers. Cardea will create a network and hub to facilitate collaboration as well as a charter to ensure the future development of research management in a structured manner.
Objective
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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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
T12 YN60 Cork
Ireland