Project Management for PhD students
Management of Collaborative Research Projects: Managing a Horizon 2020 or any international collaborative research project is not easy. These types of projects, often multidisciplinary, incorporating partners with diverse objectives and working cultures; involving a high level of risk and expectation, designed to serve a political agenda as well as generate knowledge and innovation, pose many challenges not addressed by conventional project management. When run well, such projects can form powerful communities of practitioners that can achieve great things, but they stand or fall on the ability of the project manager to hold the activities together.
Content and aim of the workshop
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the art of managing multidisciplinary, multi-organisational research projects. Collaborative research and innovation projects supported by Horizon 2020 are used as a model, but the approach is applicable generally to multi-partner knowledge generating and innovation projects. The workshop is targeted at researchers and research management support staff who may find themselves in a management role, but may also be of interest for those who perhaps just want to find out about what project management involves. This workshop is also suitable for early career researchers who wish to develop complementary skills. The workshop will follow the form of lectures followed by group exercises with discussion feedback. It is very practical and interactive in nature, giving participants skills that they themselves can apply.
The lectures will be given in English. Groups may discuss in German if preferred.
Trainer: Monica Schofield (Tutech) has over thirty years’ experience of innovation management in industry large and small in Sweden, UK and Germany. Aside from her industrial career in robotics, she is the co-founder of a robotic sensing company, founding editor of the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, and has been a board member representing a major investor in an advanced software company. Since 1993 she has been an expert advisor in various capacities to the European Commission on matters relating to research and innovation policy. She has been delivering workshops and acting as a consultant on research and innovation management across Europe since 1995. Monica has a degree in engineering science from the University of Durham, is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Monica joined Tutech Innovation GmbH in 1999. She currently heads the Business Area Consultancy and Competence Development and is Director International Cooperation. She is responsible for leading a team providing services for researchers at Hamburg University of Technology and external clients to help them make optimal use of the opportunities provided by European funding programmes for research, innovation and regional development. This includes advising small and medium sized enterprises on matters relating to innovation and young entrepreneurs wishing to commercialise research results. Monica is a member of the Programme Planning Committee of the European Industrial Research Management Association EIRMA (www.eirma.org) for which she also leads a task force on responsible innovation.
Tutech Innovation GmbH: Tutech Innovation GmbH is a company whose mission is to promote effective transfer and exploitation of knowledge especially relating to science and technology for wealth creation and in the interests of society. Tutech is owned jointly by Hamburg University of Technology and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
