Online, open learning recommendations and mentoring towards Sustainable research CAReers (OSCAR)
OSCAR
Online, open learning recommendations and mentoring towards Sustainable research CAReers (OSCAR)
- Category: Erasmus+
- Duration: 2020-2023
- Funded by: Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership
- Project holder: DAAD
Prototype: https://labs.tib.eu/edoer/
The project “Online, open learning recommendations and mentoring towards Sustainable research CAReers” proposal, aka OSCAR, is a concept serving the professional development of researchers, research master students and doctoral training participants by providing personalised training on researcher mental health and career development. This training will be done by a solution using AI based learning recommendations and state-of-the-art technology for online mentoring.
In order to maintain sustainable and successful academic careers, researchers and scientists need to attain interdisciplinary and transversal skills beyond their specialisation. Researchers need to drive their own careers in and outside of academia, and also manage stressful steps in their research projects while keeping up their high level of mental wellbeing and motivation to deliver high quality research output.
Therefore, the OSCAR Strategic Partnership, based on the expertise of the consortium, will develop, deploy, and validate a personalised training and online mentoring service for researchers to support their career management and mental health awareness skills development. As such, the OSCAR project is built on the following central pillars:
- The development of an online, AI driven, open learning recommendation framework and platform to support the improvement of key (transversal) skills on an individual level, taking the context of the learner into an account.
- The development of an online mentoring program focusing on mental health of researchers, providing psychological support to understand and mitigate impact of stressful academic environments.
- The development of an online mentoring program in career management and planning in order to support sustainable researcher careers.
Consortium
The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - coordinator - supports specialist and research communities in their learning and work processes and is actively involved in activities that put forward the full open and healthy science.
The University of Siegen (USI) has expertise in projects in the domain of applied knowledge management, intelligent systems, machine learning, and software development with a strong application, educational and analytical focus.
SciLink is a non-profit foundation which has expertise in the systematic approach to train transversal skills in a complex interdisciplinary and intercultural setting. SciLink organises high quality workshops for groups of researchers (both early stage and experienced researchers) active in diverse and interdisciplinary environments.
MCAA is one of the largest European researcher alumni communities with its more than 15 000 members, who are high profile professionals, researchers and researchers in training. MCAA operates globally and an active member of multiple European and global transnational working groups on research policies and researcher education.
Career & Life Planning (CALP) delivers coaching and training systems that enable people to improve both their personal and professional performance. CALP’s career division provides the best in class career coaching tools and techniques to ensure researchers are well equipped to develop both technical and professional skills that will ensure they are highly successful in their roles.
The Instante Falante is a non-for-profit organisation with an online platform (RUMO) that provides mental health and career coaching services online. RUMO has been developing direct interventions in the field of mental health and career coaching. However, the platform has also been providing services in other fields such as psychological assessments and psychological education through webinars and workshops.