ARISE

ARISE training

Professional training to become a Research Infrastructure Scientist.

Goal of training

The aim of the the ARISE training programme is to train our fellows for careers in core facilities, service units, data services, and big infrastructures, in academia or industry.

All training is mapped to a competency framework developed for research infrastructure scientists.

Beamline Hamburg, Schneider Group, Maxim Polikarpov. Credit: Kinga ubowiecka/EMBL

Format of training

Training is provided in the form of courses and secondments, both internal and external, distributed throughout their fellowship.

The courses are delivered by volunteer trainers from EMBL and external organisations.

External secondments take place with ARISE partner organisations in industry and academia.

Advanced Light Microscopy, EMBL Heidelberg, Dr. Beate Neumann, Dr. Stefan Terjung. Credit Kinga Lubowiecka/EMBL

Timeline of an ARISE fellowship

Training courses

User support

Training topics

  • Who are your users?
  • Understanding user needs and ways of working. Designing courses for users
  • How to run a user programme, and train users
  • Communication and dealing with external users
  • How to broaden user base
  • How to assess user satisfaction & integrate feedback
  • Instrument ergonomy

Our trainers

Service provision

Training topics

  • The service design process
  • Define technologies needed for service provision
  • Impact assessment
  • Position facility in organisation strategically
  • Long term planning and sustainabiity
  • Keeping the facility cutting edge

Our trainers

Research infrastructure management

Training topics

  • Operations management, (re)designing services
  • Budgeting and financial reporting. Securing funding sources
  • Costing up staff and compute requirements
  • Quality control
  • Strategic reporting
  • Instrument procurement
  • Health and Safety

Our trainers

Domagoj Strithof

Head of Budget Office

Budget Office

Nevena Radumilo

Head of Accounting

Finance

Photo of Tanja Ninkovic

Tanja Ninkovic

ARISE Programme Consultant

RIcapacity Managing Director

Technology transfer and entrepreneurship

Training topics

  • From academic facility to commercial service provision
  • Technology transfer
  • IP and innovation cycle
  • Collaboration with industry
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Establishing a business plan

Our trainers

Marzia Sidri

Strategy, Operations and Alliances Manager

Cellzome, GSK

Sophie Zimmermann

Senior Scientist

moloX

Science policy

Training topics

  • Open access and open science
  • European open science cloud initiatives
  • FAIR Data
  • Data management
  • Ethical, legal and social implications

Our trainers

Anya Osetrova

EDI Officer

EMBL

Project management

Training topics

  • General principles of project management
  • Management of user projects
  • Conflict management
  • Recruiting, managing, and collaborating
  • Supervision and mentoring
  • Negotiation

Our trainers

Photo of Tanja Ninkovic

Tanja Ninkovic

ARISE Programme Consultant

RIcapacity Managing Director

Martina Peskoller-Fuchs

Ombudsperson

Communication

Training topics

  • Marketing, visibility, and social media
  • Identifying and engaging with audiences, and stakeholders
  • Establishing and managing a team of volunteers

Fellows are encouraged to contribute to public engagement activities throughout their fellowship, supporting the EMBL Science Education and Public Engagement office (SEPE) where possible.

Our trainers

Secondments

Long secondment

The long secondment takes place at an ARISE partner organisation, for 2 – 6 months.

The aims are to:

  • Collaborate on the Fellow’s project. For example, utilising new technology or data sets available at the partner organisation
  • Gain work experience in different sectors. Helping fellows decide their future career paths
  • Establishing networks and forging collaborations

Short secondment

The short secondment takes place at an ARISE partner organisation, for up to two weeks.

The aims are to:

  • Shadow other technology developers and/or service providers
  • Gain experience in the RI sector
  • Networking

Internal secondment

The internal secondment takes place within EMBL or with another ARISE group or team, for a minimum of 2 weeks.

The aims are to:

  • Understand how different service providers operate
  • Learn about different life science fields

Shadowing a user

The ‘shadowing a user’ secondment takes place with one or more EMBL services or service-providing teams, for 7 days within the first 6 months of the fellowship.

Examples might be:

  • Joining a course for the users of a computational technology
  • Shadowing a user who is using a service or facility, such as an imaging or genetics core facility

The aims are to:

  • Understand user needs
  • Understand user level of knowledge
  • Understand the types of problems users may encounter when using a service

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