RM Roadmap and Cardea
RM Roadmap and CARDEA are two Horizon Europe projects funded by the European Commission under the HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01 call. The two projects started in 2022. For both, the bottom-up component in the involvement of the research management community is very important. The two projects collaborate on a regular basis to maximise project impact and avoid undesirable duplication of efforts or results. Both coordinators share the willingness to collaborate for the good of the RM community and the Research and Innovation system where synergies exist.
While CARDEA has a strong human resources (HR) component, RM Roadmap complements with a strong network perspective.
CARDEA is a group (many of them HR Professionals) with a proven track record in the delivery of initiatives to support research staff within universities and organisations. Under the framework provided by the HR Excellence in Research initiative, CARDEA works to improve policy and practice, recruitment and working conditions, and the training and development of research staff. Through CARDEA, the consortium will leverage experience to introduce policy and career practice guidelines for research managers in the European Research Area.
About RM Roadmap
RM Roadmap will allow existing European networks to connect on a smart community platform which will enable an unprecedented consultation process in research management in the world. This co-creation process will gather the existing communities and expand upon them to reach two main objectives - To create and inform a bottom-up consensus on the future of RM in a roadmap, and to inform the community about existing training, networking, funding, and career mobility opportunities.