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Progress Report for EuroCRIS: Identifying Principal Investigators for CRIS

Progress Report for EuroCRIS: Identifying Principal Investigators for CRIS. 12.11.2009 Aija Kaitera University of Helsinki, Rector’s Office. University of Helsinki in a nutshell. Established in Turku 1640 Bilingual (Finnish and Swedish), tuition also provided in English 11 faculties

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Progress Report for EuroCRIS: Identifying Principal Investigators for CRIS

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  1. Progress Report for EuroCRIS:Identifying Principal Investigators for CRIS 12.11.2009 Aija Kaitera University of Helsinki, Rector’s Office

  2. University of Helsinki in a nutshell • Established in Turku 1640 • Bilingual (Finnish and Swedish), tuition also provided in English • 11 faculties • 35,200 degree students, 45,000 continuing education and Open University students • 3,800 researchers and teachers • 193 mEUR Research funding (total funding 562 mEUR) • 7,000 Scientific publications

  3. University Collegium New University Act Universities are separated from the State Budget and direct State steering. Choice either to be corporations subject to public (UH) law or foundation subject to private law. Aleksanteri InstituteOpen UniversityInstitute of Biotechnology Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)Helsinki Centre of Economic Research (HECER)Laboratory Animal CentreHelsinki Collegium for Advanced StudiesIPR University CenterNational Library of FinlandLanguage CentrePalmenia Centre for Continuing EducationFinnish Museum of Natural HistoryNeuroscience CentreUndergraduate LibraryRuralia InstituteInstitute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) Theology Law Medicine Arts Science Pharmacy Biosciences Behavioural Sciences Social Sciences Agriculture and Forestry Veterinary Medicine

  4. CRIS development at the University of Helsinki

  5. Why do we need to identify Principal Investigators? Show full volume of research Identify full affiliated research staff The person responsible for a research proposal and its practical implementation may not be employed by the university • Current research environments and networks do not fully conform with departmental and faculty structures.

  6. Principal Investigators in strategic planning and research management • Will improve the creation of a research profile at the unit, network and University levels, • Will promote both the setting of research objectives and operations management, • Will empower the persons designated as principal investigators and clarify their role at the University regardless of their source of funding and • Will enhance the conditions for communications and research administration.

  7. A principal investigator at the University of Helsinki is typically a person who • Steers and leads research independently • Has completed an applicable doctoral degree and is qualified as an independent researcher • Has access to the necessary resources (facilities, funding, equipment) for independent research • Supervises doctoral students and/or mentors post-doctoral researchers as well as (in applicable research fields) leads a research group, and • Is placed on the third or fourth level in the hierarchy of research positions. (1 Graduate Student, 2 Post-graduate Student, 3 Senior Scientist, 4 Professor) • NOTE: • The principal investigator need not be employed by the University of Helsinki. • In relevant fields of research, the principal investigator can also be an independent researcher without a research group.

  8. Identification process • First round based on Rector’s decision 5/2009 • All Faculties identify Principal Investigators by 11/2009 • Rector’s preliminary definition can be modified by Faculty/Department • Re-evaluation every four years • Onwards: • Status applied through CRIS • Application by a wanna-be-Principal Investigator, can have multiple departments • Approved by one department director • Re-evaluation every four years

  9. Rights and obligations of a principal investigator • Recognised status and a high profile in the academic community. • Responsibility to design research projects, to achieve project objectives and to promote the application of research results. • Responsibility to fulfill administrative and financial obligations. • Teaching related to the research work for 5% of the annual workload without separate compensation (PI on UH salary paid from research grant) • Participation in the management of collective University affairs (for example, review applications for University research funding)

  10. Research Information System TUHAT Portal, Webservice University Datawarehouse Reports CRIS, Dawa Units, Networks Research Groups Principal Investigators Affiliated Researchers DSpace Projects Funding PublicationsOther output WoS, ArXiv, EndNote, Refworks, Finnish databases Manual submission

  11. Thank you!

  12. HELDA – University of Helsinki • http://helda.helsinki.fi/ • Articles [721] • Special collections [1009] • Books and serial publications [185] • Conferences and seminars [34] • Theses [4679] • Study materials [436] • Research resources [2692] • Partner sub-repositories [4360]

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