SciLifeLab Group Leader Retreat

Hillevi Englund
Susanne Bredenberg

This workshop will provide practical knowledge around research impact and a useful tool to structure your thoughts. The tool will help you who struggle to make a credible impact plan for your grant applications, and you who have a strong drive to create societal impact but don’t know where to start. The practical exercise will be individual. Preparation: Decide on a new or existing research project to work with during the practical exercise, and start thinking of what the potential long term use of future/existing results could look like.

Jessica Lindvall
Nina Norgren

This workshop will provide practical knowledge around research impact and a useful tool to structure your thoughts. The tDo you as a SciLifeLab groupleader have ideas on how to connect Research with Infrastructure using Training? Are you as an expert within your specific domain engaged and enthusiastic regarding training and education? Do you like to contribute to training and education for the life science community and train the next generation? If it is a yes to any of these question we would like to welcome you to this Brainstorming exercise. Here we want to find engaging ways using Training to further connect the SciLifeLab Research community with the Infrastructure activities.  We believe Training activities, which in the widest sense could mean building a community of trainers across Research and Infrastructure to the ideas of specific course topics where Resaerch and Infrastructure contribute to the activity, is one of the paths to build synergies across SciLifeLab. With this Groupleader retreat at Aronsborg, we take the opportunity to invite SciLifeLab groupleaders i.e. PIs and Heads of Unit to this brainstorming exercise to get the best ideas on the table on how to connect Research with Infrastructure and capitalize on both pillars expertise and training enthusiasm. Welcome!

Åsa Johansson
Janne Lehtiö
Päivi Östling
Eva Berglund

Precision medicine (PM) has potential to significantly improve human health, and is an important part of the Swedish life science strategy as well as the SciLifeLab roadmap for 2020-2030. The vision of the SciLifeLab PM Capability is that SciLifeLab plays an important role in the implementation of PM in Sweden by providing cutting-edge technologies to world-leading PM research and to clinical trials. In this workshop, we will discuss the proceedings of SciLifeLab’s roadmap for PM and collect your input. Topics to be discussed include the definition of PM research, and how the PM Capability can contribute to enable cutting-edge PM research at SciLifeLab.

Per Ljungdahl

SciLifeLab Campus Solna (CS) is a shared extra campus of the Stockholm Trio universities and the largest SciLifeLab site. CS was established twelve years ago and has been a great success. But, what about the future?
In 2019 our IAB pointed out that an active and exceptional research environment at CS is critical to the future success of SciLifeLab, and this notion was reemphasized in their most recent report. Additionally, the IAB pointed out that CS has an important role in educating researchers in the fine art of analyzing biological problems that can only be answered using high data-density approaches.
There are many challenges facing CS and maintaining an exceptional research and educational environment depends on constant input from the community and an active leadership in tune and well-synchronized with the core activities.
After a brief introduction, together we will seek to identify the principles that should be guiding and to establish common goals required to shape a concrete vision for the CS of the future. Specifically, the goals we define should have a steering function, support planning activities, be motivational and useful when evaluating progress.

Katarina Gustafsson

Stockholm university signed the DORA declaration in 2019.  The workshop, lead by Katarina Gustafsson, Excecutive Officer at the office of Science (SU), will focus on how employment of teaching positions and promotion matters are handled at SU, based on DORA. How are these processes prepared and implemented, ie how are experts appointed, what instructions go out to experts, the current premises under which employment committees and promotion committees work, balance between scientific and pedagogical skills. 

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