Building and running an association in an international setting

History

• Informal group from 1995 dealing with EU framework programmes

• Need for broader view and strategy – EU not enough – professionalisation – moving towards RSO instead of EU Office

• Initial discussions in spring of 2007 and inaugural meeting in November 2008

• Expected number of members: 150

Status

• Broad membership (180 members)– mostly universities but also– public funders– private funders– companies– hospitals– organisations– research institutes

• Individual membership at EUR 100/year

Activities

• Courses– Induction course– Strategy course – might be open outside DK– Toolbox courses

• Pre-award• Post-award

– Course on legal issues for non-lawyers– Course on how to write a good proposal

Activities

• Study trips– Brussels– Dublin– USA– Lund

• Working groups– Humanities– Simplification– Managers

Activities

• Conferences– Annual conference – varying topics– NIH – also becoming a Nordic network now– International Organisation of Research

Management Societies (INORMS)

Other activities

• DARMA magazine

• Job advertisements

• Dialogue with funders

• Dialogue with political system

• Dialogue with rectors’ conference

The DARMA board

• 1 chair person and 6 members elected

• 4 whole day board meetings per year

• Three sub-committees established:– Communication (homepage, newsletters,

magazine)– Courses/workshops/travel– Strategy/development/networking

• No staff – just volunteers

What makes it work?

• Sincere interest to share knowledge and experience to develop the profession

• We are colleagues and not competitors

• Committed volunteers who are willing to spend time for the common good

• Benefits of volunteering: great network and many contacts and recruitment advantage

Future

• Dialogue with international organisations to combine forces in training and staff exchange

• Striking the balance between competition and co-operation.

International networks

• INORMS

• EARMA

• NUAS

• ARMA

• SRA/NCURA/CAURA

• SARIMA/WARIMA/CABRIMA

• ARMS

INORMS

• International Organisation of Research Management Societies

• Established in 2001 with the objective to– to internationalise the body-of-knowledge on

research management– to exchange best practice– to develop international approaches to

supporting the research enterprise

• International meetings every second year

INORMS

INORMS

• Three tracks– Policy– Practice– Performance

• 70 60-90-minute sessions• 10 3,5-hour workshops• 10-13 April 2014 in Washington

– 10 April – workshops– 11-13 April – 2,5 day programme

• www.inorms2014.org

EARMA

• European Association for Research Managers and Administrators

• Annual meeting and one-day workshops

• Traditional focus on EU issues

• International fellowship programme with NCURA

• Next meeting: 30 June -2 July 2014 in Tallinn, Estonia

Institutions

• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island• University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio• University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado• Columbia University, New York City, New York• The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois• University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington• Washington State University, Pullman, Washington

NUAS

• Nordic Association of University Administrators

• 12 working groups (one for research and innovation)

• Latest specialist workshop at Kuopio in September 2013.

ARMA

• Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK) since 1991– Training for research managers and administrators

at various levels – Networking activities for the exchange of best

practice and for mutual support amongst members – Raising the profile of research management and

administration as a profession

• Developing a Professional Development Framework

SRA/NCURA/CAURA

• Society of Research Administrators (1967)– 18-22 October 2014 in San Diego– Hospital and broader sector– Body-of-knowledge

• National Council of University Research Administrators (1959) – 10-13 Aug. 2014

• Canadian Association for University Research Administrators (1971)

• They will host INORMS 2014

SARIMA/WARIMA/CABRIMA

• South Africa– Most developed– Hosted INORMS 2010 in Cape Town

• West Africa

• Carribean

ARMS

• Austral-Asian Research Management Society (Australia and New Zealand) (1999)

• 17-19 September 2014 in Canberra

• Mentoring programme

What is missing?

• India

• China

• Far East in general (Korea)

• Middle East

• South America – Brazil on the move