The efficiency of the higher educational systems largely rely on institutional support from the research support staff (legal, financial, ethical, impact oriented, managerial, and administrative) in all phases: pre-award/preparatory, award, post-award/implementation phase and post-implementation phase (review and assessment). Research support structures are one of the key factors influencing the success or failure of institutions and researchers participating in competitive European, non-European and national project where types of activities range from research, development, innovation, demonstration, building capacities, raising awareness, coordination, support and similar (R&D&I) funding programmes. But the available educational programmes in the field of project management and research administration comply only in limited extent with competences and knowledge needed by support staff and the need for extensive additional training in this field is evident. ADMIN project addresses this issue through providing upgrade of professional competences of research administrator’s staff by elaborating a project toolkit in project management (IO1) with an aspect on ethics and enhancing the soft communication skills as well as providing a training in this field. Additionally, ADMIN develops a self-study learning tool “Alone in the office” in a form of video material (IO2). In order to connect the various stakeholders and strengthen the linkages between the higher educations and the economy, ADMIN creates a Baseline study on knowledge transfer market (IO3). ADMIN’s outcomes will be published on the EPALE and the partners’ websites. The main objective of the project is to contribute to capacity building of research support staff and enhancing the prospect for R&I projects and initiatives in European funding schemes. The second objective is to strengthen and expand the network of research support staff across project partner countries and beyond so as to allow free flow of information, knowledge and exchange of best practices hence increasing the prospects for excellence in research administration. The aim is to boost the capacities of research administrators by improving their performance, highlighting the visibility of their work and outcomes and strengthening relations with academic/scientific staff. The target groups are early stage research administrators who are faced to the challenge to respond to everyday tasks on R&I projects, academic staff, stakeholders and students.
The essence of the project was to increase the professional competences of research administration staff by developing a set of project management tools (IO1) taking into account its ethical aspect, the development of soft skills, and provision of training. The aim of the project was to develop a self-study tool "Alone in the Office" in the form of a video (IO2). In order to connect different stakeholder groups and strengthen the links between higher education and the economy, the project was to implement the 'Knowledge Transfer Baseline Study' (IO3). The main objective was to improve the potential of the research support staff and to increase the prospects of R&I projects and initiatives in European funding schemes. The second goal was to strengthen and expand the network of research support staff in and beyond partner countries, to allow the free flow of information, knowledge and the exchange of good practice. The aim was to boost the abilities of research administrators by improving the results and visibility of their work, and by strengthening the relationship with academics. The project was to result in the following products: a set of project management tools, a video "Alone at office", transfer of knowledge to the economy
One of the challenges faced by institutions in the internationalization of their activities and their focus on research is, among others, the need to improve the quality of projects and to raise the success rate of procurement of external funds.This requires solutions for the development of employee potential and the creation of a system conducive to the preparation of projects and to their subsequent implementation Unfortunately, the staff involved in projects struggle due to lack of knowledge, skills and experience as well as due to limited access to guidelines for grant programs The project was designed to improve the potential of research support staff and increase the prospects of R&I projects and other initiatives within the European funding framework.It was intended to strengthen and expand the network of research support staff in the project partner countries and beyond, for the free flow of information, knowledge and the exchange of best practices, thus increasing the prospects for excellence in research administration.This result was intended to increase the abilities of research administrators by improving their record, emphasizing the visibility and outcome of their work, and strengthening relations with academic staff
The efficiency of the higher educational systems largely rely on institutional support from the research support staff (legal, financial, ethical, impact oriented, managerial, and administrative) in all phases: pre-award/preparatory, award, post-award/implementation phase and post-implementation phase (review and assessment). Research support structures are one of the key factors influencing the success or failure of institutions and researchers participating in competitive European, non-European and national project where types of activities range from research, development, innovation, demonstration, building capacities, raising awareness, coordination, support and similar (R&D&I) funding programmes. But the available educational programmes in the field of project management and research administration comply only in limited extent with competences and knowledge needed by support staff and the need for extensive additional training in this field is evident. ADMIN project addresses this issue through providing upgrade of professional competences of research administrator’s staff by elaborating a project toolkit in project management (IO1) with an aspect on ethics and enhancing the soft communication skills as well as providing a training in this field. Additionally, ADMIN develops a self-study learning tool “Alone in the office” in a form of video material (IO2). In order to connect the various stakeholders and strengthen the linkages between the higher educations and the economy, ADMIN creates a Baseline study on knowledge transfer market (IO3). ADMIN’s outcomes will be published on the EPALE and the partners’ websites. The main objective of the project is to contribute to capacity building of research support staff and enhancing the prospect for R&I projects and initiatives in European funding schemes. The second objective is to strengthen and expand the network of research support staff across project partner countries and beyond so as to allow free flow of information, knowledge and exchange of best practices hence increasing the prospects for excellence in research administration. The aim is to boost the capacities of research administrators by improving their performance, highlighting the visibility of their work and outcomes and strengthening relations with academic/scientific staff. The target groups are early stage research administrators who are faced to the challenge to respond to everyday tasks on R&I projects, academic staff, stakeholders and students.