{"id":1329,"date":"2020-02-04T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/researchfundingnow\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2022-03-24T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T08:49:10","slug":"tartu-highlights-utu-research-funding-unit-benchmarking-the-university-of-tartu-grant-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/researchfundingnow\/2020\/02\/04\/tartu-highlights-utu-research-funding-unit-benchmarking-the-university-of-tartu-grant-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Tartu Highlights \u2013 UTU Research Funding Unit Benchmarking the University of Tartu Grant Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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In the middle of December darkness, UTU Research Funding unit made a mind-brightening benchmarking visit to the University of Tartu (UT). The purpose of the visit was to familiarise ourselves with the Tartu University Grant Office, Tartu \u00dclikool Grandikeskus, meet our Estonian colleagues and to benchmark how they have organised their Pre-Award and Post-Award services. In all, this visit turned to be very inspiring, and I had the pleasure to be part of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grant Office is the central research support office of the\nUniversity of Tartu and responsible for implementing the UT strategy to\nincrease EU funding. Interestingly, within Grant Office the UT has also recently\nstarted to provide Grant Writing Services. For this reason, we were looking forward to the trip and keen to hear and exchange\nexperiences and best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We reached Tartu by bus-boat-bus experience. On the first day of the\nprogramme, our host Head of Grant Office Taivo\nRaud, had organised an intensive and interesting 1-day session with his team at\nthe Grant Office. We were warmly welcomed, and exchange of ideas was smooth and\ninteractive.  To be honest, I did not\nmind the interaction being completed by a generous selection of delicious\nEstonian chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the day we heard presentations about the UT\nR&D performance, internationalization in research and higher education,\nGrant Office and Horizon 2020 support services as well as UT participation in\nEU R&I partnerships. The University of Tartu, established in 1632, generates\nmore than 50% of the Estonian research output and with its 4 faculties it is\nthe only comprehensive university in Estonia. The total research income of UT\nin 2019 was 76,2 M\u20ac (total UT budget 182M\u20ac). The University of Tartu is coping fairly\nwell in Horizon2020, overall success rate being 15,2%. According to the Times\nHigher Education (THE) ranking, UT is the leading research university among\nEU13 countries. That was also one of the reasons why we chose to benchmark UT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly enough, the university has made some\nmajor strategic shifts to increase EU funding. Augmenting their pre-award EU funding\nservices, i.e. grant matching and grant writing is one.  The UT Grant Writing Unit (GWU) helps and\nassists researchers in writing proposals, mainly focusing on Horizon 2020 but\nother international funding sources such as EIT, Erasmus and Interreg also play\na role. GWU, presented by the Head of the Unit Hector C. Pagan, started at the\nUniversity of Tartu in summer 2018. Currently the unit consists of a team of 5 people but due to growing demand,\nthe plan is to recruit more writers in the near future. GWU is actively\nmonitoring their performance by different indicators, and statistics indicate\npositive results. There definitely seems to be a demand for Grant Writing\nServices at UT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, increasing UT\nparticipation in EU partnerships, also called pre-pre-award services, is\nanother strategic interest of UT. We had a chance to hear presentation by Vallo\nMulk, the Specialist of International R&D\nCooperation and learned how the UT Grant Office supports Partnership\nintegration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Messages the Tartu University students in lock-up cell left behind. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Tarto city was beautiful with its Christmas lights. To complete a lovely day, our hosts had organised a guided tour at the University of Tartu historical main building. The building was very impressive indeed, with the historic prison cell located in the attic – in the 19th century this mystery room was reserved for students who had violated public orders of the university\u00b4s code of conduct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more things you learn, the more new ideas come to\nyour mind\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all, we got a lot of new ideas during the visit. We\nlearned that we already have many common practices between UTU and UT, hence\nsharing experiences was interesting, e.g. about Research Professional database\nthat has quite recently been introduced at UT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our way back we were discussing possible ways of implementing some of the new ideas in our unit. Co-operation and exchanging of ideas and practices with Tartu team will certainly continue. We also invited them to the <\/a>Emerging Horizons: Research Service Days <\/strong>in Turku in August 2020.<\/a> Hopefully see you there at the latest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos by Maritta L\u00f6yt\u00f6m\u00e4ki<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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