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Graduate Studies of Global Change at the University of Latvia
2010
In 2008 the University of Latvia (UL) completed an 18-month project of innovation – design, preparation and pilot-test of a 4-semester programme of trans-disciplinary graduate studies in “science, global change, and technologies for sustainable development” based on the experience the project team had acquired during 1997–2006 endorsing studies in “physics and technologies for sustainable development” and organizing two international conferences on “integrative approaches towards sustainability”. Within the project activities 25 members from faculties of natural sciences of the UL prepared and tested innovative courses of a 2 semester pilot programme comprising 4 modules, the audience being…
Success Factors in Funding Acquisition for Research Projects through Competitive Calls: A study of R&D Public Centres
2017
Durante los últimos años, la capacidad de generación de recursos financieros derivados de la obtención de fondos competitivos ha sido una preocupación creciente para las organizaciones públicas de investigación y desarrollo (I+D), al garantizar su supervivencia y el futuro de los actuales sistemas de bienestar público implementados en la mayoría de los países europeos (Bazeley, 1998; Lee y Om, 1996; Muñoz, 2007; Santamaría, Brage-Gil, y Modrego, 2010). La literatura actual describe ampliamente las características y el impacto de los principales programas de financiación competitiva internacional (Galsworthy y McKee, 2013; Grimpe, 2012; Laudel, 2005, 2006), la magnitud de la eficacia de los …
Intercultural Communication and its Challenges Within the International Virtual Project Team
2019
With the advance of technology, face-to-face intercultural communication moves into the online virtual environment via electronic tools such as audio-video conferencing, email, messenger chat, platforms, groups, thus distances between individuals from different cultures are reduced and the exchange of information takes place within a few seconds. Cultural differences should not be a barrier to communication but an opportunity for development. International virtual project teams (IVPTs) can benefit from cultural diversity and effective intercultural communication, because it can enhance creativity and innovation within the project team, while at the same time team members are enriched by acq…
BUILDING THE PROJECT TEAM AND PROJECT ORGANIZATION – CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES
2011
The building of a project team can be one of the first hurdles the future team manager faces. The blame for this can be constraints in terms of resources to fund salaries, lack of adequate or properly trained personnel, unavailability of specialists the manager needs within the project in the period this is scheduled, but also other causes. The building of a project team process must also correlated with its future structure, the two components influencing each other in both directions. Choosing an appropriate structure for the project to be implemented is not only necessary, but, moreover, may prove fatal to the extent that is not obtained.