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Project guidelines

The prerequisite for receiving IRIS project financing is that your project involves cross-ITM-School collaboration.

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Guidelines

Guidelines for receiving funding to participate in the IRIS project:

  • Recognise that a prerequisite for IRIS funding is cross-ITM-School collaboration.
  • Discuss your project idea with researchers from other departments in the ITM School.
  • Listen to others so that your idea gets improved, adapted and shaped so that it can be a collaborative venture.
  • Together with researchers from other departments, jointly develop a project plan (see this template: IRIS project plan template (docx 109 kB) ), where that plan provides information about the project’s problem definition, aims, objectives, tasks, KPIs as well as time plan.
  • Explain, within such project plans, the contribution of each of the departments/academic disciplines involved i.e. what your project means by interdisciplinarity.
  • Request a project plan review meeting with coordinators from a relevant area.
  • Request a meeting with your respective prefects to review the project plan and discuss funding.

The many roles in IRIS

To guide the portfolio of research projects to success, the IRIS Project has an organisation comprising various roles – researchers, coordinators, reference group members, committee members and prefects. Everyone needs to understand their own role, and appreciate the role of others, in order to ensure that we can proceed with confidence and commitment.

Checklist for all participants

  • Recognise the prerequisite of cross-ITM-School collaboration needs to be fulfilled.
  • Support presenting research projects / area roadmaps in a clear way.
  • Ensure different departments/disciplines contribute in a meaningful way in each project.
  • Verify that the research is proceeding to plan.
  • Encourage and support people keeping their project on track as collaborative or practical challenges arise.
  • Identify emerging research results are identified and communicated to stakeholders e.g. via the project homepages.
  • Shape attitudes and behaviours give confidence in the interdepartmental/disciplinary research activities.

Code of conduct

Remember, above all, we need to conduct ourselves in a way that is supports each other overcome the challenges of working across organisational boundaries and with interdisciplinary research.