RItrain

Lead by BBMRI-ERIC

The overarching goal of RItrain is to identify the competency requirements for the leadership of European research infrastructures (RI) and design a training programme to fulfil these requirements. Our highest priority is those professionals who are already working in research infrastructures, including directors, coordinators, senior project managers, legal representatives, heads of Finance and HR, and heads of communication. However, by designing a flexible, modular programme, we will also be able to provide a new qualification aimed at future leaders of research infrastructure – the Master in Research Infrastructure leadership.

Another important consideration is that many RIs, including the new European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) RIs have a distributed operations structure, building on existing RIs or networks of RIs. These RIs therefore require a different set of unique competences to deal with issues such as multinational operations, transnational access and data flow; different social security systems, different administrative cultures, different legal systems etc. They face those challenges that the European Commission (EC) has identified as roadblocks for the establishment of the European Research Area: (i) increased effectiveness of national research systems, (ii) improved trans-national cooperation and competition including establishing and effectively operating key research infrastructures, (iii) a more open labour market for researchers, (iv) gender equality and mainstreaming in organisations carrying out and selecting research projects and (v) optimal circulation and transfer of scientific information, including via digital means and broader and more rapid access to scientific publications and data.

List of Participants

Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure –European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC), European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European BioinformatiCommon Service Institute (EMBL-EBI), Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Infrafrontier GmbH, EATRIS-ERIC, ECRIN-ERIC, University of Minho (UMinho) on behalf of MIRRI, Institute of Molecular Genetics Service of the ASCR, v. v. i. on behalf of Euro-BioImaging (IMG), Imperial College London on behalf of ISBE (IMPERIAL), University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) on behalf of DARIAH, SHARE-ERIC