European Research and Transfer Management (EURESTMA)

Topics

• Foundations of EU R&I Policies, Institutions and Instruments
• Developing and Managing an Institutional Approach towards EU-Funding

Participants who have completed this module...

• are able to understand political priorities shaping current EU R&I policies
• are capable to reflect on key policies, instruments and institutional players at the level of EU funding programs
• are knowledgeable about the implementation and future development of institutional and national R&I ecosystems and their own facilitating roles as professional research managers
• can design and execute a strategic approach towards EU funding.

Topics

• Project Management Definitions and Tools
• Adapting Project Management Tools to Project Cases
• Success Factors and Pitfalls for Research Project Processes
• The Perspectives of Reviewers on Research Proposals and Projects

 Participants who have completed this module...

• can understand and apply Project Management instruments and tools in the higher education and research context, even within complex research project
• can develop plans for managing different types of complex projects in terms of project scope, planning, progress, cost, resources, risks, etc.
• can estimate project performance and execute recovery plans during project execution
• can reflect on the societal relevance and responsibilities of project management of research projects in the EU environment
• can relate important elements from the reviewers’ perspectives.

Topics

• Science Communication and Project Consulting
• Lateral Leadership

Participants who have completed this module...

• are able to initiate communication targeted information in an international/intercultural environment
• are able to plan and conduct professional negotiations
• have the necessary consulting skills for their daily practice
• know how to lead projects without formal authority and to establish trust and commitment in diverse teams (lateral Leadership)
• are able to face challenges in lateral leadership.

Topics

• Foundations of Research and Transfer Strategies
• Implementation of Research and Transfer Strategies

 Participants who have completed this module...

• understand the potentials and limitations of strategic management instruments and tools in the research and transfer context.
• can design processes to develop and implement research and transfer strategies, taking into account the different levels of decision-making in universities.
• can apply and adapt strategic management tools to strategy processes in the research and transfer context
• understand the importance of creating research and transfer strategy documents including an integrated view on interdisciplinary research and (inter)national (European) funding sources
• can develop and apply relevant research and transfer indicators in strategic management

Topics

• Concepts and Relevance of Digital Transformation
• Open Science Strategies
• Digital Skills, -Footprint and Data Management
• Artificial Intelligence in Research Management

Participants who have completed this module...

• can analyze digitalization and digital transformation policies, trends and practices on supranational, national and institutional level, including Open Science, data management, digitalization tools and digital footprint;
• can develop strategic knowledge and (institutional) policies on digitalization for the own research context
• develop sound understanding of EdTech potential for research work;
• can reflect on the societal relevance and responsibility of Artificial Intelligence and the role of research managers in it; including the role of Ghat GPT in academic and professional work.

Topics

• Third Mission
• Knowledge Transfer
• Relationship Management
• Value Management

Participants who have completed this module...

• understand the (societal) relevance of transfer and third mission including the roles of various (internal and external) stakeholders and institutional data-driven approaches
• can develop and implement transfer-strategies and foster a transfer-culture within their own organizations, regardless of legal, financial and motivational obstacles
• are able to design a value- and data-driven research management approach

Topics

• identify challenges of research management in a science organization
• design and execute a Project Action Plan
• integration of interaction, expert feedback and peer-consulting into a project

 Participants who have completed this module...

• have the necessary project management skills to implement a project within their institution in a short time window
• can apply the skills learned in this course to an individual project
• can mobilize and incorporate feedback and advise from peers and experts in their work including European research managers
• can link the challenges of research managers to the specific characteristics of organizations and their development processes.

The UAS Osnabrück is one of the leading German hubs for practice-oriented, academic qualification in higher education and research management and is coordinating the EURESTMA Program. At Osnabrück, a national MBA program for higher education managers exists for almost 20 years, next to innovative lifelong learning degrees, such as a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Higher Education and Research Management. Furthermore, UAS Osnabrück organizes the International Deans’ Course in Southeast Asia and Africa, next to numerous other projects to develop leadership capacities at universities worldwide, for example in Ethiopia or Thailand. During the last years, UAS Osnabrück also for instance engaged in a project in Lower-Saxony to generate Open Educational Resources or in an empirical research project analyzing the careers and professionalization processes of higher education and research management. 

Experts Involved:

Prof. Dr. Frank Ziegele,
E-mail: Frank.Ziegele@CHE.de

Professor Ziegele is Professor for Higher Education and Science Management at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, as well as the Executive Director of the CHE Centre for Higher Education.

Dr. Kai Handel,
E-mail: k.handel@hs-osnabrueck.de

Dr. Kai Handel is Professor for Higher Education and Science Management at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück

Prof. Dr. Hans Vossensteyn,
E-mail: h.vossensteyn@hs-osnabrueck.de

Professor Vossensteyn is Professor for Higher Education and Science Management at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, as well as Director for Saxion Research & Graduate School at Saxion University of Applied Sciences.

Program Coordination:

Niklas Rauterberg,
E-mail: n.rauterberg@hs-osnabrueck.de

UWK is a leading providers for academic courses in higher education and research management in Austria. Between UAS Osnabrück, Tampere University and UWK there is a joint multi-year collaboration regarding the Erasmus Mundus master programme “Master in Research and Innovation in Higher Education” (MARIHE). Besides MARIHE, the department for Higher Education Research at the UWK offers and coordinates a master in “Research and Higher Education Management” (MSc) since 2005 in Austria and has been involved in a number of international curriculum and program initiatives in the field of the development of professionals in higher education. The research portfolio covers a large set of aspects addressing the system, institutional and individual level of higher education including topics such as human resources and organizational development, governance, the third mission of higher education institutions and academic continuing education. Further to this, the Department is a national hub for the research into higher education in Austria and coordinates the work of the Austrian Higher Education Researchers’ Network.

Experts Involved:

Univ.-Prof. Dkfm. Dr. habil Attila Pausits,
E-mail: attila.pausits@donau-uni.ac.at

Professor Pausits is Head of the Department for Higher Education Research.

Barbara Auer,
E-mail: barbara.auer@donau-uni.ac.at

Organizational Assistant - Department of Higher Education Research

TAU is a leading providers for academic courses in higher education and research management in Finnland. Between UAS Osnabrück, TAU and UWK there is a joint multi-year collaboration regarding the Erasmus Mundus master program “Master in Research and Innovation in Higher Education” (MARIHE). In addition to the MARIHE partnership, Higher Education Group at TAU has offered since 2002 a continuous education program titled “The Study Programme in Administration and Management of Higher Education” (40 ECTS) for professionals working in the field of higher education and research organisations. In addition to its educational responsibilities, Higher Education Group at TAU is a significant national provider of policy-relevant research and advisory services for Finnish governmental authorities, higher education and research institutions and other stakeholders in areas of governance, management and policy. At the moment, Higher Education Group is also the leading provider of doctoral education in the higher education administration in Nordic countries.

Experts Involved:

Prof. D.Sc. Jussi Kivistö,
E-mail: jussi.kivisto@tuni.fi

Professor Kivistö is Professor for Administrativ Studies at the Tampere University.

Kateryna Suprun,
E-mail: kateryna.suprun@tuni.fi

Researcher at Higher Education Group, Faculty of Management and Business at Tampere University.

ZWM is a registered non-profit association of Germany´s leading universities, research centers and intermediary organisations of the science sector. Today, its membership consists of about 80 institutions and 30 individual persons. Founded in 2002, ZWM´s mission is to increase the performance of science institutions by expanding and professionalising their science and research management skills. For this purpose, ZWM takes on new developments and impetus in science and research management and implements them in open-access training courses, customized training and consulting services. ZWM also hosts the website www.wissenschaftsmanagement-online.de, a networking platform for science management including publications, case studies, contacts and job offers.

Experts Involved:

Henning Rickelt,
E-Mail: rickelt@zwm-speyer.de

Henning Rickelt is Managing Director for the ZWM.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Hölscher,
E-mail: hoelscher@uni-speyer.de

Professor Hölscher is Board Member of the ZWM, as well as Professor of Higher Education and Research Management at the "Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer".

POLIMI Graduate School of Management is the leading Italian provider of academic programs and trainings in higher education and research management.

Experts Involved:

Prof. PhD. Tommaso Agasisti,
E-mail: tommaso.agasisti@polimi.it,

Tommaso Agasisti is Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano School of Management.

Deborah Agostino,
E-mail: deborah.agostino@polimi.it

Deborah Agostino is Associate Professor of Management Accounting at Politecnico di Milano. She is a core faculty member of Polimi Graduate School of Management, where she teaches financial and management accounting in executive and post-graduate courses.

KoWi is part of the scientific self-administration, has 30 years of experience as a brand in Brussels and Bonn and has established connections to partners from Europe and the EU institutions at its Brussels location. KoWi offers companion and strategic proactive services "from a single source" that target researchers, administrators and institutions nationwide and basically cover all stages of a researcher's career, all instruments of the Research Framework Program and all phases of an EU research project.

Experts Involved:

Dr. Torsten Fischer,
E-mail: torsten.fischer@kowi.de

Doctor Fischer is the Director of the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi).

Since April 2006, PolSCA has been operating in Brussels as an independent foreign PAS unit parallel to the other PAS centers in Paris, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, and Kiev. PolSCA is supervised and funded by the Polish Academy of Sciences. It represents all Polish scientific institutions and communities and acts for their benefit. The mission of PolSCA is to promote, facilitate and foster participation of the Polish R&D community in European projects and initiatives and in particular to reinforce Polands position in the EU framework programs.

Experts Involved:

Dr. Tomasz Poprawka,
E-mail: tomasz.poprawka@polsca.pan.pl

Doctor Poprawka is the Director of the Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) in Brussels.