This output consists of at least 40 Research Summaries and 40 Mini Research Papers (minimum 3000 words) on the CoP platform (http://cop.viscontiproject.eu/) on the 10 skills that employers will be looking for in 2020-2025 as identified by the World Economic Forum in its report "The Future of Jobs" (January 2016). Each Paper will have been published upon the peer review of at least two members of the same CoP.
The development will be led by VisMedNet supported by ValIda so that they can exploit the experience they have garnered in the management and maintenance of a research oriented CoP in previous projects. All the partners will be involved in this IO through the engagement of their youth professionals or training providers for young people in the production of the 40 Research Summaries and 40 Mini Papers.
The partners will establish an Editorial and Quality Board to regulate the publication process so that there can be:
- set criteria for quality and format of papers (supported by online tools and templates already up and running on the CoP infrastructure inherited from previous VISConti and UPPScience projects) and
- a balanced variety of topics for Summaries and Mini Papers to cover all 10 skills identified in the report with at least 4 mini research projects about each skill (this is in key with the character of a CoP that activities re disciplined and structured as opposed to fluid networking).
The participation of all partners in the production of Summaries and Mini Papers will be supported by two training activities C1 and C2.
INNOVATION lies in at least two aspects of this IO:
- All partners except VisMedNet and ValIda do not have experience in the CoP environment. In the past the CoP methodology was applied almost exclusively to the medical field and with some transfer to STEM and IT and therefore the extension of its application to the field of youth is an important widening of the scope of the CoP dynamic and
- RSVP runs counter to the perception that research is the exclusive domain of academics and therefore not part of the lifelong professional development of youth professionals and educators. RSVP takes the unlikely researchers into research in small steps with mini research projects without compromising on quality making research readable and reachable in the process of summaries and publishing of mini papers.
IMPACT is wide and immediate on the participants directly involved in RSVP, on their organisations and on the stakeholders / community around each partner:
- youth professionals and educators will get (almost all for the first time) into research and publishing and peer review process,
- partner organisations will have adopted the research culture and upped their social status into agents of change in their respective communities and
- stakeholders will have entered into a new form of cooperation (field research) with the partner organisations.
To guarantee maximum impact the minimum 40 mini research papers will be by 40 different youth leaders and educators.
Papers can be in members' native language.
All will have also acquired insight into change in employment trends of the near future in view of the topic of research chosen for RSVP.
TRANSFERABILITY is in the very essence of RSVP.
RSVP will establish its pool of members in a CoP that was started in two previous Erasmus+ KA2 VET projects (viscontiproject.eu and uppscience.eu). It will also use its online platform in a perfect example of exploitation and cross project cooperation and transfer.
RSVP is enlarging the population of the CoP putting the partners' staff in a community with other professionals from education and industry from at least other 22 organisations even from countries not represented in this project. Indeed the new RSVP members can even solicit that their papers be reviewed by members of the CoP not from this partnership.
The process of RSVP is being applied to research projects on the subject of the top 10 skills that employers will be looking for in 2025 however the same process of desk and field research and publishing of mini papers can be emulated and replicated on other topics and into other sectors without restriction. This is especially possible due to the fact virtual aspect of the Community and its platform that removes all geographical and physical hurdles from carrying on with activities.
The tasks necessary for the development of this IO are:
IO1 A1. Appointment of Editorial and Quality Board and participation of one person from each partner in periodical meetings to follow staff engagement in research prior to each training activity and general publishing activities in the CoP and to establish the discipline for choice of topics for papers,
IO1 A2. Production of a manual for Ambassadors of Change so that they can support their colleagues and peers in the process of growth in the steps of Reading, Summarising, Verifying (field work) and Publishing,
IO1 A3. Supporting of participants in their activities before the trainings C1 and C2 including the contact activities with stakeholders in youth, education and industry for field research,
IO1 A4. Production of at least 40 Research Summaries and 40 Mini Papers on the CoP platform,
IO1 A5. Peer review activities of all the 40 Mini Papers on the CoP platform and
IO1 A6 Validation activities about the learning process at organisational and individual level of all players in the RSVP dynamic including management staff, the Ambassadors of Change, participants in the training activities both as participants in training and as members in the CoP environment.