This open access book combines findings and solutions from various areas of research management, such as HR, finance, strategy, and business case development. In recent years, Europe has invested enormously into the establishment of Research Infrastructures (RIs): new types of research service-providing organizations in virtually all scientific domains, which are often based on local or regional core facilities and research centers. Bringing together interdisciplinary and multinational teams at single-site or distributed research facilities, more than a thousand RIs are active worldwide and operate as structured, networked organizations led by Research Infrastructure Managers. These Managers are mostly scientists who have to strike a balance between their scientific background on the one hand and effective management and leadership skills on the other. This is the first open access book made for Research Infrastructure Managers around the globe. It also provides insights into complex managerial issues involved in setting up and operating RIs, developing appropriate service provision, and market communication and dissemination activities. Readers will particularly benefit from the use cases, which were developed as part of the Executive Masterin Management of Research Infrastructures offered at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), which was supported by the Research Infrastructure Training Programme (RITrain), an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project.
1. The Concept of Research Infrastructure.-
2. Governance and
Organisation of Research Infrastructures.-
3. Strategic Management in
Research Infrastructures.-
4. Financial management and accounting in Research
Infrastructures.-
5. Financial Sustainability in Research Infrastructures.-
6. Leadership and Team Management in Research Infrastructures.-
7. European
Research Infrastructures Compliance with International and European Law.-
8.
Service Design in Research Infrastructures.-
9. Sustainable Funding in
EMPHASIS as a distributed Research Infrastructure.-
10. Developing a
Data-driven Community Engagement Plan for Integrated Carbon Observation
System Research. Infrastructure.
Enrico Guarini is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and Management at the Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He is also the Programme Co-ordinator of the Executive Master in Management of Research Infrastructures. His research interests include budgeting and financial management, public management as well as governance. Markus Pasterk, worked for the Austrian Government until 2006, at IARC as Scientific Coordinator, followed by COO/VP at the International Prevention Research Institute (until 2013 in Lyon), BBMRI-ERIC Administrative Director (2014-2018), CEO Austrian Drug Screening Institute, Innsbruck, (2018-2020) and is now back at the Austrian Government. He is freelance Management Consultant and Visiting Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Marialuisa Lavitrano is Full Professor of Pathology at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, and Programme Director of the Executive Master in Management of Research Infrastructures, at University of Milano-Bicocca, where she was Vice-Rector for International Research and Teaching Programmes (2006-2013). Since 2013 she has been director of the BBMRI.it Node (Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure - Italy). In December 2020 she was elected - confirmed in 2024 - in the board of eight directors of the EOSC Association and serves as vice-president. Prof. Lavitrano has a long-term experience in research, management and has been appointed as an expert in the ERA Action Empowering Research and Innovation: A New Era in Research Management.
