Project description
Empowering researchers for real-world impact
RESKILLSPAN is an ambitious project designed to transform researchers into changemakers ready to thrive in academia, industry and beyond. By addressing critical skill gaps, it equips researchers at all career stages with the transversal skills needed to drive societal and market impact. Through a modular training and mentorship programme, personalised learning journeys and a certification model, the EU-funded RESKILLSPAN project fosters innovation, adaptability and entrepreneurial thinking. It also empowers researchers to connect with diverse audiences through effective science communication. Targeting researchers across disciplines and institutions, RESKILLSPAN bridges the gap between research, society and industry, helping researchers turn knowledge into action and shape impactful careers that matter. Join us in redefining the role of research in today’s world.
Objective
ReSkillSpan aims to maximise the impact of the European R&I system by equipping researchers of all career stages with skills needed for impactful careers within and outside academia. Building on the research-specific skills that many researchers have already mastered or are expected to have mastered, the project will develop the transversal skills that will allow them to successfully span boundaries between academia, industry and society, as well as navigate a potential entrepreneurial journey and acquire the right skills to successfully combine the lab with market, and societal needs, ultimately, generating social and economic impact.
This aim will be achieved by conceptualising, designing and pilot-testing an innovative modular training and mentorship scheme as well as a certification model. All deliverables will target and be pilot-tested with researchers of all career stages and a variety of disciplines from the HEIs and research institutes participating in the project and beyond.
We will:
- Develop a deep understanding of and exchange the best practices in training offered by HEIs, research institutions, and other training providers on the improvement of research and transversal skills development for researchers
- Conduct a gap analysis of skills based on ResearchComp and identify “industry” and “transversal” skill areas that can transferred to the academic context
- Conceptualise, design and test training courses addressing identified skills gaps, as well as other training interventions including peer-learning events and the Impact Project mentorship scheme
- Develop and test a certification model based on micro-credentials, as well as the system for creating personalized learning journeys for individual researchers using the self-assessment tool
-Raise awareness amongst researchers about impactful, inter-sectoral and entrepreneurial careers as well as the importance of science communication to empower them to communicate about their impact more effectively
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
1098 XH Amsterdam
Netherlands
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.