CZARMA Working groups
Finance
The group focuses on broader aspects of research and innovation funding rules.
Objectives and activities:
- Research and innovation funding rules, audits, administrative aspects (throughout the project life cycle - from budgeting to reporting, payments and audits)
- National programmes (follow-up to PES Group activities)
- Operational programmes (cooperation with the RONALDO group)
- European programmes (cooperation with TC group)
- Harmonisation and simplification of rules
- Knowledge sharing and exchange of experience (meetings, model forms, guidelines, etc.)
- Shared calendar of relevant events
- Formulation of common positions and recommendations (policy brief)
Chair: Lenka Chvojková (TC Praha)
Projects
The group focuses on pre- and post-award support for research and innovation projects.
Objectives and activities:
- Cultivating experiences by sharing them; mind mapping & mind mining,
- Dissemination of best practices in pre-award and post-award project management,
- What do projects across providers have in common? Phases, principles, processes...
- Creation of a knowledge base; possibly a database of experts and training in the areas.
- Funding Landscapes - connecting ideas and funding sources.
- Relationship between strategic management and projects.
- Knowing and influencing the environment, actively creating opportunities (overlap with research policy).
- Adapting project management standards to the research environment.
- Project thinking - project as an algorithm; from impact to action.
- Project life cycle - conception; planning; implementation; closure; (sustainability).
- Communication as a project manager skill.
Chair: Ladislav Čoček (MUNI)
Open Science
The group aims to develop and discuss the topics of Open Access, Research Data Management, Citizen Science and others in the context of academia.
Objectives and activities:
- Consistent communication to researchers across institutions
- Common best practices towards projects and use of sub-OS methods in project design and implementation
- Development of project managers in OS expertise, development of OS methodologists in project skills and implications for other parts of the project
- Common approach to national OS policy development in the Czech Republic, professional support in the development of new policies (professional and project view on implementation)
- Communication with funders on the topic of setting rules for Open Science (practical implications for project management
Chair: Jiří Marek (MUNI)
Human Resources, mobility, gender
The ambition is to contribute to the career development of doctoral candidates and researchers by helping remove barriers to professional growth, support incoming and outgoing scientific mobility, facilitate the integration of international researchers within the host institution, and co-develop measures that promote gender equality in line with the requirements of Czech and European research funding programmes.
Objectives and activities:
- Mapping how research institutions approach human resources management.
- Developing a framework for career development in research and innovation, including expectations, responsibilities and obligations at different stages of a research career, resulting in model career regulations and career development plans.
- Supporting the implementation of the European Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R).
- Developing a framework for transparent recruitment, including a model methodology.
- Developing a framework for leadership, mentoring and lifelong learning, including a model methodology.
- Identifying approaches to remuneration, motivation and effective employee benefits, and preparing a model methodology.
- Supporting the implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) through a model methodology.
- Mapping existing programmes supporting incoming and outgoing research mobility (e.g. MSCA, Campus France, DAAD, DZS, EEA Funds, EMBO, Erasmus+, Experientia, FEBS, Fulbright, Horizon Europe ERA Talents, Humboldt, JSPS, Matsumae, Newton, GA CR, OP JAK) and creating a call calendar on the website.
- Providing project support for the preparation, submission and implementation of mobility schemes, and sharing best practices.
- Developing a basic FAQ covering incoming and outgoing mobility opportunities.
- Establishing a CZARMA “Mobility” forum for experience sharing and peer support.
- Creating a system of internal mobility opportunities within CZARMA.
- Mapping the working and living conditions of international researchers in the Czech Republic and the EU, and identifying ways to remove barriers.
- Supporting the internationalisation of Czech research institutions and addressing related barriers.
- Increasing the international visibility of research and innovation career opportunities in the Czech Republic through a platform for job vacancies.
- Developing a concept for a Czech programme supporting incoming and outgoing research mobility.
- Preparing a position paper on the Widening component of Horizon Europe and the ERA Talents initiative.
- Promoting training, networking and the exchange of good practices.
- Creating a platform for sharing experiences, good practices and strategies in HR and gender equality in line with HR Award, HRS4R, Horizon Europe and other grant programmes such as GA CR.
- Sharing experience with the implementation of HR and gender equality tools in research and innovation organisations.
- Providing expert support for the implementation of gender equality measures linked to HR agendas, including training, consulting, workshops, toolboxes, guidelines and practical manuals, as well as support in meeting GEP and HR Award requirements.
- Using the GEinCEE network as a platform for exchanging experience and expertise across Central and Eastern Europe.
Chair: Blanka Collis (UOCHAB)
Legal issues
The group focuses on the legal dimension of research and innovation, particularly in research institutions and universities.
Objectives and activities:
- Intellectual property law in research
- Contractual relations
- Knowledge transfer and commercialisation (cooperation with Transfera)
- Regulatory restrictions and obligations (personal data, AI, other)
- Specifics National/Operational/Framework Programmes
- Knowledge sharing and exchange of experience (model contracts, case studies, etc.)
- Shared calendar of relevant events
- Formulation of common positions and recommendations (policy brief)
Chair: Alena Larionová (TC Praha)
Science communication
The mission of the group is to emphasize the importance of communication and popularization of science and to contribute to the development of the necessary know-how.
Objectives and activities:
- Communication platform of the group at CZARMA - what you know, what you need, what you want to talk about, what you want to create, share → we create it together
- Knowledge base for science communication - a living document; summarising material (links to relevant materials from providers, events and training, contacts for science communicators, list of popularisation websites, etc.)
- International cooperation and links of the group - sharing practices and cooperation with foreign collaborators; importing "good practice"
- Seminars & workshops - exchange of good practice within the community and external (international) speakers
Chair: Dagmar Vokounová Franzeová (ZČU)
Research Infrastructures
The overall aim of the group is to contribute to the national debate on the funding and management of research infrastructures, including open access to infrastructures.
Objectives and activities:
- Sharing experiences and expanding knowledge about RIs are among CZARMA members - how they enter into projects, ...
- Educational activities (seminars, workshops, presentations).
- Research infrastructures - what they are, how they are supposed to work, service provided, ...
- ESFRI
- How infrastructures should work in HE, GACR, TAČR, ...
- Policy objectives.
- Input to the discussion on the methodology for the evaluation of the MoEI for the next period
- Communicating and explaining what is the role of RIs in the research system (vis-à-vis RVVI and its industrial part), including their socio-economic impacts
Chair: Ondřej Hradil (MUNI)
The composition of the working groups is subject to change. For more information, please contact the research group leaders.