Background
In order to advance the CHARM-EU Common Science Agenda, TORCH is developing a joint strategy towards building shared structures and initiatives that will be the cornerstone of the Alliance's R&I dimension. This plan comprises:
- Devising a joint approach to support multidisciplinary, challenge-driven research projects for CHARM-EU.
- Prompting the creation of scientific networks across the Alliance universities, and providing support to scientific teams developing research proposals. In particular, in relation to the TORCH Research Challenges.
- Conceiving an Action Plan on the development of a CHARM-EU joint office to manage and support research activities.
As part of this initiative, it was devised to create a directory of academics (researchers/teachers) within the CHARM-EU insitutions, that could be queried through this searching tool.
Purpose
This directory of researchers is made available to the whole academic community of the CHARM-EU universities, its purpose being threefold:
- Academic staff and researchers would be able to find (and will be findable by) potential partners to join European and national research projects, based on their expertise and interests.
- The CHARM-EU staff developing the Alliance’s teaching programmes would be able to find suitable teachers/researchers that could join the diverse initiatives: Masters in Global Challenges for Sustainability, and any other future programme (joint PhD programmes; doctoral and staff exchanges networks, microcredentials, etc.).
- The research support offices in our universities, in charge of managing European research proposals and projects, would be able to find researchers to complete new consortia, based on their expertise and interests.
How does it work
Entering the Guide of Experts is totally voluntary. In order to join it, researchers only need to complete an online entry form. It takes around 15 minutes.
The Guide of Experts, when searching for results, displays a single researcher card for each of the experts in the directory, with information about their research interests and expertise. See an example here.
Academic staff from the 9 CHARM-EU universities is invited to join the Guide of Experts:
What info is requested
The entry form requests information mainly regarding:
- Academic and professional data: email address, university, faculty, department, academic position, researcher ID profiles, institutional and personal webpages.
- Research interests and background: field of science, keywords describing interests, research connections with UN SDGs.
- Experience in European/national research projects.
- Teaching expertise and experience: keywords describing interests, teaching practices.
- Desired level of involvement in potential activitivies developed wthin CHARM-EU (both in teaching and research).
This Guide of Experts only publicly displays academics' data about their professional details, research expertise and interestes, and teaching interests (keywords), following RGPD's Article 5.1.c ('data minimisation'). Any information collected about involvement in CHARM-EU Activities, and detailed teaching experience will not be displayed.