Developing viable FP6 modus operandi

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A roadmap for Professional eTraining

• Developing viable FP6 modus operandi

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Objective

• The objective of workpackage 4 is to propose
• a high-performance modus operandi for the
  management of large projects in the professional
  eTraining area.
• recommendations for programme management to
  accompany the roadmap implementation.

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What has been done so far?

• Analysis of the modus operandi of currently
  running Research and Development programmes and
  networks through
• Desk research
• Case studies
• Expert interviews
• We identified that different research areas and
  organisations have different needs for modus
  operandi.

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Methodology
Content Analysis Identifying generic terms
Case Studies use questionnaire
Morphologic box evaluate data
Cluster - creation evaluate data
Expert - Interviews use topic guide
Overview-report of modus operandi of currently
running programmes and success criteria for the
effective management
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Main findings
There is a large bandwidth of opinions concerning
success factors for programmes / networks.
However specific key success factors have been
identified

• Financialsclear and simple guidelines -
  help-desk support
• Callsclear guidelines and evaluation criteria
• Legal aspects (IPR etc.)clear rules and
  guidelines - early clarification of IPR issues in
  consortia

• Management/Leadershipflexibility and
  professionalism of management team
• Targets
• clearly defined RD and business targets
• Controlling
• quality and performance control
• Organisational structure/ Communicationclearly
  defined roles and communication channels -
  politics detrimental to communication

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Next step portfolio analysis
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Next step Questionnaire
Important
Satisfaction
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Next step Others statistical independent
variables
How would you classify your organisation?

• University, College of Higher/Further Education
  or equivalent
• Public vocational education training
  organisation
• Voluntary or social organisation
• Private training company 
• Private organisation (any sector) with internal
  training services
• Private organisation (any sector) with external
  training services
• National administration (ministry, etc.)
• European administration (comission, etc)
• Organisation specialised in producing training
  content/tools
• Other

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Next step Others statistical independent
variables
With which kind of funding instrument do you
deal?
With which kind of funding instrument do you
deal?

• Administration
• Technology
• Management
• Social tasks
• Economy/business
• Infrastructure
• Government

• Programmes
• Networks
• Projects
• Other

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Next steps
Find more independent variables 25.04.03 Prepar
e draft questionnaire 29.04.03 Pre-test
results 02.05.03 Final questionnaire
(English) 05.05.03 Final questionnaires in
several languages 09.05.03 Questionnaires
online 16.05.03 Questionnaires complete
27.06.03 Portfolios 30.06.03
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Thank you