Project management and governing bodies

With the aim of establishing the management structure and the general guidelines of the project governance that will provide the basis for the Consortium Agreement, partners have agreed to take as reference the Governance structure for Small Collaborative Projects (Module GOV SP). This is a structure specifically developed for small projects. It has General Assembly (GA) and governance boards.

In order to achieve the overall and specific objectives of the ISPAS project, the partners have agreed to supplement the General Assembly with Steering Committee (SC), International Advisory Board (IAB) and four local advisory boards (LAB) – Norwegian, Spanish, Italian and Bulgarian. This structure has been chosen to ensure that the skills and competences that PhD candidate will be acquiring are in demand by the employees in the respective regions and countries. The decision to add the local advisory boards to the management structure is also based on the requirement to have such a local board by the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria. Thus, the management structure of the ISPAS project consists of seven elements: GA, SC, IAB, and four LABs.

General Assembly

  • Chiara Marcella Inaudi
  • Elena Giglia
  • Mikhail Gradovski
  • Olav Eggebø
  • Juan Carlos Martínez Barrio
  • Cristina Martinez Sanz
  • Raul Delgado Morales
  • Lidia Garcia Campmany
  • Todorka Aleksandrova
  • Konstantin Delchev
  • Miquel Sola i Puig
  • Germa Coenders
  • Virginia Ciccone
  • Sara Levi Sacerdotti

Steering Committee

  • Mikhail Gradovski
  • Chiara Marcella Inaudi
  • Juan Carlos Martínez Barrio
  • Todorka Aleksandrova

International Advisory Board

TBA

Work packages

The ISPAS project’s duration is 12 months. The process of the development of the results is based on the quadruple helix model where the academic and non-academic partners of the consortium will cooperate with both government and civil society representatives.

The ISPAS project is structured in four work packages. WP1 is devoted to the coordination, intraconsortium communication, and management of the project. WP2 and WP3 are packages where primal goals are creation and development of the PhD skills courses in the Open Science and Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship areas respectively. WP4 is devoted to the consortium’s dissemination, exploitation, and communication activities towards society. A schematic description for each package is provided below.

ISPAS work packages scheme

ISPAS work packages scheme

WP1 Coordination and management. This work-package will provide the consortium with coordination aimed at reaching the overall and specific objectives of the project. Further, this work-package is devoted to the management of the consortium administratively and financially. Another major task placed in this package is the development of the PhD tracking survey.

Objectives:

  • Ensure that the development (creations, try-ons and evaluations) of the courses on open science and open innovation is carried out according to agreed schedules.
  • Ensure that the development of the courses is occurring as one whole entity resulting into the joint curricula rather than a set of standing alone courses by setting stakeholder mechanisms on the local national level (local evaluation boards) and on the international level (international advisory board).
  • Create and launch a PhD tracking survey for the candidates participating in the courses.
  • Validate the new joint curricula with the opinions of different stakeholders and representatives of end-users.
  • Ensure the proper use of Consortium Agreement and due acknowledgement of images in the material generated by the consortium.

WP2 Open science. This work-package is devoted to the activities connected to creation and development of the courses in the area of Open Science.

Objectives:

  • To provide basic skills in Open Science: logics, tools, practices
  • To provide skills in FAIR data management.
  • To provide case studies and hands-on training to concretely put into practice the theoretical notions.
  • To provide storytelling skills useful to communicate research outputs outside academia
  • To provide Social Network Management for Research and Innovation skills

Major deliverables:

  • Online Open science course: the on-line version of the course, including training materials, that will be available beyond the end of the project. 
  • FAIR data online course: the on-line version of the course, including training materials, that will be available beyond the end of the project.
  • Handbook on storytelling: we will provide an online handbook featuring the key tools to turn a PhD research into an engaging narrative for a specialist and non-specialist public.
  • Online course Social Network Management for Research and Innovation. 
  • Report on Social Network Management for Research and Innovation online course with a scorm package containing all the digital materials produced and feedback from the pilot.
  • Online Create a Citizen Science Project course. 
  • Online Open Access Publishing course.
  • Online Open and reproducible research in the biomedical sciences and its best data management practices course. 
  • Final report on training: the document will report on the work done on the WP, illustrating all courses delivered, feedback from trainers and data about PhD candidates reached. 

WP3 Open innovation. This work-package is devoted to the activities connected to creation and development of the courses in the area of Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Objectives:

  • To develop a common entrepreneurship promotion program and provide the candidates with knowledge, competences, tools, and skills to enable the PhD candidates to start up their own businesses.
  • To stimulate open innovation process activities in the participating universities through development of a common innovation process and provide the PhD candidates with knowledge, competences, tools, and skills to participate in it.

Major deliverables:

  • Entrepreneurship course. This deliverable will include the programme and the materials produced. 
  • Open innovation course: This deliverable will include the programme and the materials produced 
  • Pitching course: This deliverable will include the programme and the materials produced.
  • IP course: This deliverable will include the programme and the materials produced.
  • Educational innovation course: This deliverable will include the programme and the materials produced, as well as feedback from the pilot. 
  • Course on digital humanities: The deliverable will include a scorm package with all the digital materials produced and feedback from the pilot. 
  • Open Innovation in biomedical and clinical research course. An online course.
  • Open innovation training report: This deliverable will be a report describing the implementation and completion, along with deviations and correction measures taken of the actions included in this work package. 

WP4 Dissemination, exploitation, and communication. This work-package is devoted to the dissemination, exploitation, and communication activities that the partners behind the ISPAS consortium will provide for the society.

Objectives:

  •  To plan and carry out dissemination and exploitation activities.
  • To develop a web platform which will serve both informative and distributive role within the project, exposing to the public the planned activities of ISPAS, but also serving as a repository of the created educational materials.
  • To maintain and expand the created web platform, allowing it to be used for the planned Ph.D. tracking activities and ensuring its stability, security, and resilience

Major deliverables:

  • Communication and dissemination strategy. This deliverable will include the communication and dissemination plans and should be available early in the project, with draft version up for discussion at the kick-off meeting.
  • Website: A website, available to the public on the Internet. It will be comprised of informative areas that will present the purpose of the project, the planned activities, and results and will inform about the development of the work; distribution area – a repository that will provide access to the educational packages created within the project; a software module to conduct online surveys to collect feedback from users; and an integrated visits and behaviour third-party tracking service.
  • Guidelines for the preparation and publication of educational packages and other website content: This online and publicly available deliverable will facilitate the smooth communication between the educational content.