Administrative Support & Managment Skills
All Participants agreed on having a platform where we can share our expertise, success and failures as weel as ask questions and ultimately get an answer!
This session is meant to summarize the outcome of the satellite meeting.
Guide Line
We would like to share expertise and failures and eventually come up with a "Guide line".
How to set up a Core Facility
Define standards on best practice
International Society for Flow Cytometry is working to define standards on best practice.
A recognition programme aimed at improving core facilities.
Lab management
How to deal with tender and procurement and merged administrative requirment and lab needs.
Policis and procedures
Career development
Core Facility Leader's job description
What do we expect the CFL to do?
We would like to set up a benchmarking scheme for core facility leaders.
TA qualification
More from Kelly Vere coming soon.....
Career path
There was not major concern about defening a career path of a CFL.
Instead, we had a considerable discussion about qualification for TA, whateher having a PhD.
Workshops
Administrative and Financial topic
Elena Trovesi organizes Workshops twice a year at different research institutes.
In-house workshops can also be organized.
Go to Core Vision in Science | Workshop
Lab management
How to deal with tender, procurment, administrative requirment and lab need.
PR, marketing, promotion
To reach a self-sustainable infrastructure, we need to promote our facilities. We need to advertise our activities to external users, including companies.
Core facility leaders may not have neither the expertise nor the skills.
What is the most appropriate and efficient model?
Professionals promoters may be hired at the institutional level or may be dedicated to one facility.
Funding Support
Deadline Date 2014-09-02
Scope: The activity will support the training of staff managing and operating research infrastructures. A proposal under this topic should build on the past activities and the experience gained in the projects such as RAMIRI (Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures). It should engage with universities and prepare curricula and courses specifically for pan-European research infrastructures to address their intercultural and interdisciplinary nature as well as their diversity (global, highly distributed, single site etc.). A significant use of interactive online training material should be considered.
Expected impact: This activity will improve and professionalise the training of the staff managing and operating research infrastructures of European interest, strengthen the human capital of the involved research infrastructures, stimulating their efficient management and therefore promoting their development and competitiveness at national, European and international level.