CESAER Professional Week 2021

 ‘Boost science management’  - this is theme for the pilot CESAER Professional Week in January 2021 which is jointly organised by the Workgroup Knowledge and Staff Exchange and Task Force Competitive Funding and hosted by Warsaw University of Technology.

  • Start: 18th January 2021 - 10:00
  • End: 20th January 2021 - 16:15
  • Online (Brussels/Paris/Berlin time)

This event is fully online, but future events could have components of both online and in-person participation (i.e. include physical staff mobility).

Background

The pilot CESAER Professional Week ´Boost science management´ will take place at the launch of the new EU funding programmes (early 2021) for research, education and innovation to support Knowledge & Staff Exchange amongst the EU support offices of our Members and to optimise knowledge within Members from lesser performing regions by learning from our best performing Members.

The objective is to create visibility and momentum behind staff and knowledge exchange in our association, and to boost science management at our Members.

While the master classes have been designed with specific target groups in mind, as described below, the events are open to any staff at our Member universities.

The event is organised as part of CESAER activities around knowledge and staff exchange. Please also check out the CESAER Knowledge and Staff Exchange platform which you may use at any time of the year.

You can attend CESAER Professional Week to get new ideas or connect to new partners in our association, and then use the Knowledge and Staff Exchange platform to enhance and deepen these learning and training experiences.

Event details

  • Pilot CESAER Professional Week ‘Boost science management’
  • Jointly organised by the Workgroup Staff and Knowledge Exchange and the Task Force Competitive Funding and hosted by Warsaw University of Technology
  • Secretariat support: Indre Antanaviciute, David Bohmert, Mattias Björnmalm and Anas Henawy
  • Dates: From 18 to 20 January 2021
  • Type of event: Series of master classes
  • Location: Online via zoom

Objectives

  • Pilot and evaluate the CESAER Professional Week
  • Launch the new generation of EU funding programmes
  • Boost science management with contributions from our Members who are highly successful in EU funding programmes
  • Create visibility and momentum behind staff and knowledge exchange in our association

Participants

  • Presenters: Leadership and senior advisors of EU research support offices from institutions with high turn-over in Horizon 2020 and invited external participants.
  • Audience: Managers and staff of EU support offices from our Member universities who want to increase their turn-over in Horizon Europe and Erasmus.

Registration

Registration links will be shared closer to the date, for now please save-the-dates.

Draft programme

Day 1 - Monday, 18 January 2021

Master Class 1: Model Grant Agreement for Horizon Europe

  • Target group: Legal and financial officers of EU Grants Offices at our Member universities
  • From 10:00 to 12:00 CET
  • Link to event page and registration will be added here closer to the date, for now please save-the-date!

Master Class 2: Model Grant Agreement for Erasmus

  • Target group: Legal and financial officers of International Offices at our Member universities
  • From 14:00 to 15:45 CET
  • Link to event page and registration will be added here closer to the date, for now please save-the-date!

Day 2 - Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Master Class 3: Boost institutional success rate in the European Research Council

  • Target group: ERC support managers and staff of EU Grants Offices at our Member universities
  • From 10:00 to 11:30 CET
  • Link to event page and registration will be added here closer to the date, for now please save-the-date!

Master Class 4: Boost institutional success rate in Erasmus

  • Target group: Erasmus support managers and staff of International Offices at our Member universities
  • From 14:00 to 16:00 CET
  • Link to event page and registration will be added here, for now please save-the-date!

Day 3 - Wednesday, 20 January 2021

Master Class 5: Boost institutional success rate in Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions

  • Target group: MSCA support managers and staff of EU Grants Offices at our Member universities
  • From 10:00 to 11:45 CET
  • Link to event page and registration will be added here, for now please save-the-date!

Master Class 6: Partner search and consortia building for collaborative projects

  • Target group: Collaborative projects support managers and staff of EU Grants Offices at our Member universities
  • From 14:00 to 16:15 CET
  • Link to event page and registration will be added here, for now please save-the-date!

Following its conclusion, the workgroup will evaluate the outcome of this pilot CESAER Professional Week and report to the Board of Directors by February 2021. If successfully evaluated, an annual CESAER Professional Week would be hosted by one or a few host universities selected following annual open calls where any Member can propose to host the CESAER Professional Week of that year on a theme of their choice.