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Operationalising Telecouplings for Solving Sustainability Challenges for Land Use
This project receives funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under
Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765408.
ITN - Best PracticesITN 2019 Coordinators’ Info Day
Brussels, 22 November 2019
Jonas Østergaard NielsenCOUPLED Coordinator
Humboldt University Berlin
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Presentation Outline
Institutional Unit Costs
Recruitment
Supervision
Training
Outreach
Project objectives
Consortium
Management structure
Consortium Agreement
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Project objectives
• ENV-Panel (Environmental and Geo-Sciences): Geography and Land System Science
• Production and consumption of land-based products increasingly decoupled
• Understanding processes and actors influencing the use of land in a globalized world
• Developing new and enhanced governance measures that can shape land-use couplings to deliver more sustainable outcomes
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ConsortiumConsortium
10 Beneficiaries 9 Partner Organisations
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Management structure
SUPERVISORY BOARD Beneficiaries‘ representatives and two ESR representatives
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NETWORK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
CoordinatorProject
Manager
Director of
Training
Director of
Research
NETWORK ASSEMBLYAll participants and ESRs
Ombuds-
person
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Consortium Agreement (CA)
• Paid via a redistribution of Beneficiaries’ Management Costs per ESR and person months (50% for daily management, training, workshops, speakers etc.) - A common budget
• Beneficiaries have different rules re. Management Costs
• 75% employment – this is adequate
• Experienced with project management, EU mechanisms and language
• Main contact point between Project Officer (PO) and Consortium
• Close coordination with Coordinator
CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT• Outlines the role and responsibilities of both Beneficiaries and
Partners in COUPLED• Based upon the DESCA Model Consortium Agreement
Project Manager
• Secondment Agreement with Partners part of ConsortiumAgreement – specify rules, expectations and work plan
• Not required, but a good idea
• Templates ‚out there‘
Secondments
KEY INSIGHTS
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Institutional Unit Costs: Annex to CA
Institutional Unit Costs (IUC)
• Agree within consortium
• To whom do they belong and how to use them
• Make a ‘cost note’ on this
• Distribute to ESRs
• Transparency is key!
• Avoid discrepancies between the beneficiaries!
COUPLED COST NOTE IUC• Guideline for the use of the different cost categories
• Overview of which costs the IUC may/may not cover – moving, travel, visas, insurances, equipment etc.
• Guidance regarding what falls under Mobility Allowance and what falls under Institutional Unit Costs
• Help for financial planning
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Recruitment process
• Follow the European Charter forResearchers / Code of Conduct for theRecruitment of Researchers
• Framework for researchers and employers to act responsibly and professional within their working environment
• Open, transparent, competitive, non-discrimanatory procedure
• Gender equality
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Recruitment process
• Jointly advertised on different channels
• Online Application Guide and Form on COUPLED Website, including automatic check of eligibility criteria
• Information available for applicants in one place
• Possibility to apply for up to three ESR positions, ranked in preferences
Advertisementcentralised
• Recruitment Guideline for Selection Committee
• Initial screening for MSCA eligibility criteria by Project Manager
• Remaining candidates ranked by supervisors according to a point system (scientific background and merits, motivation, innovative nature of the draft proposal)
• Overview of gender and geographical spread
• Five candidates identified and interviewed via Skype
• Inform the exact/approximated net wages during the interviews because stated wages is not one-to-one with reality
• Common ESR start date, or as close as possible
• Visa issues
• Overview of less ‘attractive’ ESR positions – quick relaunch of call
Selectiontransparent
Start early –hire early
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Recruitment process
Numbers
• 498 applications for the 15 positions
• All positions filled by Sep 2018 (COUPLED started Jan 2018)
6
57,4%
40,0%42,6%
60,0%
0,0%
20,0%
40,0%
60,0%
80,0%
Total applications Selected candidates
Recruitment's gender ratio for COUPLED
male female
286
212
9
11 nationalities
INFO NOTE FORSELECTION COMMITTEE
- Eligibility criteria
- Ranking system
- ESR Salary - Net estimate!
- Interview guideline (whom to involve, example and required questions)
- Request to keepInterview Records
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Supervision
First Assembly Meeting combined with supervision training of the supervisors
• ESRs compare and contrast
• Established an understanding of practices, differences and best practices within our consortium
• Establish common ground
Bi-annual supervision talks
• Coordinator, PM, Director of training, Director of Research, Ombudsperson• Questionnaire
• Stimulate ESRs to reflect upon work-life balance, working conditions, supervision, progress, concerns
• Identify problems early
• PM identify ESRs based on questionnaire and subsequent talks
• Listen to the ESR, suggests ways forward, BUT do not supervise on content
• If issues pertaining supervision and/or institutional support is identified the Coordinator speaks to the supervisor
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Training
6
Summer School
•Two weeks
•Place early – common start date
•Whole consortium present including partners
•Content, rules and regulations, rights and obligations, outreach strategies, ethics, planned activities, expectations
•Coaches for how to gel as a group, games, networking skills, intercultural communications skills
•Create a project and group identity and a social space for learning
World Café
Games
Retreat
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Training
Advanced Training Courses
• 10 courses – five content, five transferable skill
• Group together – save travel and time
• Use external expects/consultants for transferable training
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Training
Training Evaluation - Feedback „More active and
hands-on
sessions, please!
„Thanks for providing us
with an encouraging
environment to develop
ideas and connect with
each other.“
„Enough time and open
attitudes to facilitate
interdisciplinary
discussion.“
„Would have liked to see
more small group exercises
where we apply ideas
learned to our projects.“
63,50%
30,10%
6,90% 2,70% 0,00%0,00%
20,00%
40,00%
60,00%
80,00%
Very high High Medium Low Very low
My overall satisfaction with the Summer School and the ATCs is …
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Outreach
• Get professional help designing logo, website, colour schemes etc.
• Do this early so Website is ready before official launch of project – also for centralised application process
• Plan for public engagement (school visits, etc)
• Make an outreach strategy early, and with the ESRs (they are so much better at it) -keep the outreach channels alive– Results, Conferences, Blog posts, Fieldwork,…
• Make the ESRs responsible but Coordinator, PM and consortium members need to stay active too
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Challenges
Clear communication on the IUC
• To whom do they belong and how to use them
• Cost note
Flexibility regarding secondments
• Timing, not length
• Place
• Addition of new partners
• Make sense for the ESR project
Ethics
• Start early
• Identify projects
• Keep an open line of communication with PO
ESRs take on a big task
• Move
• New country
• New institution
• ITNs larger than their project: time management
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Enjoy it!!!
Thank you!
Our website: www.coupled-itn.eu
This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765408.