How can research management help institutions become more strategic, competitive and effective? What tools, frameworks and approaches can support stronger research management capacity across Europe?
Across the European Research Area, universities, research organisations, funders and public authorities are seeking to strengthen research excellence,attract and retain talent, increase competitiveness and maximise the impact of research and innovation. Research management capacity is a key enabler of these ambitions. Research managers support activities ranging from funding strategy, international collaboration and project implementation to research careers, impact, compliance, data stewardship, research infrastructures and institutional development.
This online INSPIRING ERA event on Thursday 15 October at 10-12 CEST will explore research management as a strategic capacity that supports institutional performance, research excellence and successful engagement in European research and innovation activities. It will highlight why research management matters for institutional performance and ERA priorities, and how organisations can strengthen research management capacity in practice.
Participants will hear from European-level, national and institutional perspectives, including examples of approaches to professionalisation, skills development, competence frameworks, recognition, career pathways, HR and career policy, and institutional models that embed research management more effectively into strategy, governance and leadership.
Organised by INSPIRING ERA in collaboration with RM Framework, this event is part of a series of online events supporting the implementation of the European Research Area Policy Agenda.
Programme
Welcome
Research management in the ERA: policy context and strategic relevance
Magda de Carli, Head of Unit / Deputy Director, ERA, Spreading Excellence and Research Careers, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Panel discussion: Leadership perspectives: strengthening research management as strategic capacity
- Moderator: Omar Cutajar, Senior Director, Xjenza Malta
- Ignasi Lopez, Director of Science Engagement and Strategy, La Caixa Foundation, Spain
- Prof. David Smith, Director of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
- National policy leader – to be confirmed shortly
From frameworks to institutional capacity: practical pathways for strengthening research management training
Teodora Konach, Head of Professional Development at EARMA
National approaches: building research management capacity across systems
NARMA’s professional development programme
Nichole Silva Elgueta, the University of Agder, Norway
Public funding to strengthen research management capacity in Slovenia
Maja Peharc, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Slovenia
Institutional approaches: embedding research management in strategy and careers
Embedding research management in institutional quality development at Lund University
Carin Andersson, Head of Department – Research Services, Lund University, Sweden
Institutional approach to strengthening research management capacity
Speaker to be confirmed shortly
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