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Annual meeting, Leuven, 4-6 November, 2013

Working Group Session Fellows’ feedback on the organisation and objectives of the AgreenSkills programme

The objective of this working group’s session and of this questionnaire is to obtain your feedback and perception of the AgreenSkills programme. With this information, we hope to assess what are your main expectations for the AgreenSkills programme and the ways in which the programme can be improved for yourselves and for its future fellows. Specifically, we would like you to:

1) Reflect on how the programme can better meet your expectations in terms of training and animation, and identify topics of common interest,

2) Draw up a first draft and check list of points to consider in a self-evaluation of the programme, 3) Reflect on how the programme can follow up on its Fellows’ mobility projects

And, more globally, we would like you to reflect and give us feedback on the programme, the way you understand its objectives and appraise its implementation.

Modalities, materials and tools

This questionnaire is meant to be used as a tool to assist you in the collective brainstorming of the working groups.It can also be filled and returned to the programme management team as an individual contribution (this can be done anonymously, if you prefer) to the debate.

A PowerPoint slide listing the main points raised by the working group and its conclusions has to be prepared and presented as a report at the end of the session.

The names of an animator and a rapporteur have been suggested for each working group. Changes can, of course, be made within the group and other or complementary animators and/or rapporteurs could be designated to the convenience of the fellows comprising each working group.

Working group / Name :.....................................

1 - Expectations in terms of training and animation of the programmeDuring their mobility stay within the framework of the AgreenSkills programme, fellows will be offered training, opportunities to attend seminars, workshops and conferences provided by host laboratories, as well as host organisations’ transversal structures. Some special events and seminars on topics of common interest will be provided by the programme itself and organized by the management team.

TrainingTraining could be on scientific and technical topics or techniques directly related to the fellows’ topics and project research as well as on non-scientific topics such as technology transfer, ethical issues, project management, corporate management, team leadership, communication, technical writing, grant writing, language etc. A few research schools and training events or credits for courses could be provided by the programme on topics that will be identified as of common interest by most of the fellows.

Which topics are of a priority/concern/need?: Scientific skills or technological issues, Cross-cutting scientific issues: modeling, epistemology... Cross-cutting non-scientific issues: ethics; research integrity;

principal investigator skills for writing proposals; project management; team management; property right and intellectual property etc.

Do you think these training opportunities should be organized: Within the hosting institutions/campus? Outside of the hosting campus, in France? Abroad (Europe)?

(Please prioritize and add to the topics listed in the examples below)

Animation of the programmeSeminars and annual fellows meetings will be organized in order to build a sense of community amongst AgreenSkills fellows and to promote the programme and its fellows.Which type of events do you consider essential or of interest?:

Annual fellow’s meeting: in France, or abroad (Europe)? PPP (Public Private Partnership) events and professional

speed dating with public or private bodies? Alumni, AgreenSkills community events? (to be specified)

(Please prioritize, complete, and provide some specifications on the topics listed in the examples below)

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2 – Self-evaluation of the programmeThe AgreenSkills programme includes evaluation processes to both ensure the quality of its implementation and allow for its improvement. All actors in the programme, including experts, fellows and receiving labs, will be involved in the review process through periodic questionnaires and interviews. The above questions aim to define the items that you, as fellows, would find the most adequate to take into account in such an auto-evaluation process.

Items: Information and dissemination: documents provided and

communication tools Eligibility and submission process Information to the players (fellows, scientific mentors, HR

services etc.) during the length of the selection, welcoming and recruitment phases

Recruitment process Welcoming by the hosting campus and lab Training assessment interview Social and practical consideration Events Others (to be specified)

For each of the above items, please comment with examples and specify indicators that could give evidence of the relevance, quality and efficiency of their implementation, schedule, support and assistance provided.

Methods for the self-evaluation of the following items: By whom (fellows, scientific mentor, referent person etc.) When (start, mid-term, end, after mobility) Marks and quotation (qualitative or quantitative appraisal,

type of scoring)

(Please prioritize and complete the items listed in the examples below)



3 - Follow-up of the fellows’ mobility projectThe Fellows will have to provide a (mid-term and/or final) report on their mobility stay and research project.This part of the questionnaire should help us to structure the items of these reports.Reminder: all publications and communication must refer to AgreenSkills programme and its EC funding

Items of the Fellows’ mobility report Scientific report Publications and conference talks Intellectual property deliverables (e.g. patterns) Partnerships & networking established during the mobility

stay Coaching and teaching activities of the fellows Scientific training taken by the fellow during his/her mobility

stay Non-scientific training taken by the fellow during his/her

mobility stay Others (to be specified)

Schedule/frequency/methods of submission of these reports?

(Please validate, complete and provide some comments on the items below).

AgreenSkills Pass : What do you think the “AgreenSkills Pass”, which will be delivered to Fellows at the end of their mobility stay, should be?

Features Uses Forms



4 – Web developments and toolsHow do you appraise the actual web site and which improvements/tools would you like to see in such a scientific mobility programme?

Items: Design Dynamics Events Documentations Ethics and integrity platform Personal document libraries Personal web page Other (to be specified)

(Please validate, complete and provide some comments on the items below)

5 – Expectations of the Fellows towards/from AgreenSkills’ governing bodiesDo you think you would benefit from a further, more developed, dialogue with the AgreenSkills programme governing bodies?From which governing body? (Steering Committee, Scientific Committee, Ethics Commission, Programme management teams and coordinators).

What for? : Appeal, dialogue, personal assistance…

6 – What has been/are your expectations of your fellowship in terms of the international mobility it offers

Networking Experience different schools of thought, methodologies etc. Future career opportunities Language learning Cultural experience Other (to be specified)

And everything else you would like to point out!


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