Services

• Research support services
• RDI Project Management Office services
• Economic's Office Services
• Call for Internal Aids 2008
• Publication of works

The IN3 provides research staff with a series of services in order to offer them tools and resources to help and contribute to the development of their research activities. These services are structured into the following areas:

• Dissemination service:

It contributes to the dissemination of the UOC research staff's RDI activities and responds to the requests for information and data on the research developed at the IN3.

The service includes, among others:

– The IN3 website
– A tool to create and maintain group and programme websites
– Internal round-up of periodical information on the results (IN3 newsletter, WOK magazine, etc.)
– Publicising of news, seminars, etc.

Contact address: suport_einesin3@uoc.edu

• Research software support and maintenance service:

This service offers users access to a series of IT tools to support the specific research tasks of staff.

These include:

– ATLAS.ti: a program for qualitative analysis of text, graphic, audio and video data
– BiblioScape: bibliographic reference manager
– Cart: program to create and manage decision trees
– Etnograph: a program for descriptive/interpretative analysis of text; qualitative data analysis
– ProCite: bibliographic database management system
– Refworks: bibliographic reference manager
– SPSS (includes AMOS): statistical analysis software
– Survey Manager (Netquest): a program for online management of surveys over the internet

Contact address: suport_einesin3@uoc.edu

• Training service:

This IN3 service, in collaboration with the UOC's People and Organisation Culture Area and the Library Area, develops specific training programmes to respond to the needs detected, with the aim of ensuring the maintaining and improving of the staff's research skills, both in terms of methodology and in terms of their knowledge of research support tools.

The periodical training programmes include, among others:

– Factorial analysis
– Training databases (Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge)
– Applied statistics for research
– Qualitative research methods and techniques
– Quantitative research methods and techniques
– Writing scientific and academic texts
– Refworks
– SPSS

Contact address: suport_admrecerca@uoc.edu

• CV management service:

The GIR tool is used to offer researchers a CV management service that allows for editing and updating, or the exploitation of the data stored in accordance with their specific requirements.

The service includes, among other things:

– Production of CVs in the different official formats (ANECA, AQU, MECD, etc.), and in a range of languages, from the data entered by the researcher
– The possibility of creating new personalised formats by the researcher themselves
– Integration with dissemination tools (the IN3 website) to ensure use of and coherency in the data entered

Contact address: suport_gir@uoc.edu

• Internal grant programme management service:

The internal grant programmes provide the research groups and individual researchers with access to human resources and specific materials designed to support and drive research activities in areas such as organisation, attendance and participation in congresses or other events of scientific interest, translation and publication of articles, reports, etc., and purchasing of scientific and technological equipment for specific ends.

The service includes, among other things:

– Publicising and management of the annual schedules for the various internal grant calls.
– Advice to researchers as to the conditions and procedures applicable for each call and administrative support for the various phases of their adjudication (documentation, schedules, amounts, economic procedures, etc.).

Contact address: suport_admrecerca@uoc.edu

• Other services:

Likewise, the IN3 also manages the following services that may be of use to research staff:

- Inter-library loans and bibliographic purchases
- Support tools for the virtual teamwork environment (registering of work groups, logical mailboxes, distribution lists, shared network areas, etc.)
- Temporary use and loans of equipment (laptops, mobile telephones, email accounts, WiFi)

Contact address: suport_admrecerca@uoc.edu

The RDI Project Management Office (PMO) is the support tool the IN3 provides to help cover UOC research staff needs during all stages of a RDI project.

The Office is structured into the following two units:

1- Proposal advice and sources of funding information unit:

The aim is to provide research groups and researchers with information on the sources of funding for the development of their RDI projects and help them present their RDI project proposals.

The services offered are:

• Sources of funding information service: offers information on the publishing of calls and provides sessions to train and/or inform research staff on any new developments deemed important in the search for research project funding or on any particularly interesting calls.
• Proposal production advice service: helps research staff present RDI project proposals. This help includes the production of a planning schedule with the tasks, key deadlines and responsibilities involved in the production of a proposal; advice on the call’s regulations, key aspects, setting their idea in the context of the call, etc.; production of the budget and its negotiation; collecting of all the administrative documentation, and sending and registering of the proposal. When the project is coordinated by the UOC, this service also manages, alongside the partners, the administrative documentation and the production and negotiation of the budget, whilst remaining in constant coordination with the UOC researcher.
• Follow-up service for proposals presented: monitors the proposals presented and their result, manages the resolving of errors and processes appeals, where applicable.

2- Project execution unit:

The aim of this unit is to aid research groups and researchers and/or RDI project leaders in all the management tasks involved in the execution phase, providing them with all the tools and services needed for the project’s development.

The services offered are:

• Contractual management service: ensures correct compliance with the legal aspects of a project in terms of contracts, agreements, conventions, addenda and third-party agreements, providing advice and producing, where necessary, contractual agreements associated to a project, whether for competitive calls or from non-competitive sources.
• Human team management service: guides researchers in the process to apply for a new contract and monitors the hours dedicated to projects by research staff.
• Planning support service: produces the “framework planning document” to offer researchers a snapshot of the project’s initial situation in terms of aims, partners, schedule and key landmarks, research team and the time commitment, budget, forecast costs and justification.
• Project monitoring service: monitors the project in order to detect and/or demand changes in its development and to offer support to researchers in their day-to-day activities with regard to the management and administrative aspects the project entails.
• Financial and budget management service: economic start-up of the project and management of the project expenses in coordination with the Accounts team.
• Project closure management service: ensures the correct closure of the project both from a scientific and technical perspective, and an economic perspective; manages the presentation of the final justification.
• Project consortium management service: in the case of projects led, offers support to the project leader in those management tasks linked to the administrative and economic coordination of the project.

Contact address: ogp_in3@uoc.edu

The IN3 Economy Team is the tool that the IN3 provides the UOC's researchers with for the economic management of programmes, research groups, projects and grants, and which ensures the viability of these.

It offers the following services:

• Budget Management Service

- Advice service on the economic management of projects
- Information service on the position of project accounts
- Proposal budget validation service
- User registration service for the online budget monitoring tool (Discoverer).

• Financial and Fiscal Management Service

- Advanced payment of suppliers management service
- Advanced payment management
- Project proof of payment service
- Project closing of the books service
- Economic audit management service
- Project collection management service
- Consortium economic management service: consortium global proof of payment, partner payments, audits of coordinated projects
- Guarantees for projects management service
- Project expenses management service
- Contract invoicing service

Likewise, the IN3 Economy Team also takes part in the Training Service, providing training in the online budget tool and the specific purchasing circuits for the management of project expenses.

Contact: eco_in3@uoc.edu

(Information available in spanish)

Desde el martes 27 de mayo hasta el viernes día 27 de junio está abierto el plazo para recibir solicitudes de la Segunda Convocatoria del Plan de Ayudas Internas 2008. La tipología de ayudas es la siguiente:

- Ayudas para la organización de congresos, jornadas y otros actos: esta convocatoria tiene como objetivo promover el intercambio y difusión de conocimiento científico mediante la organización de reuniones y otros actos científicos.

- Ayudas a la mobilidad (asistencia a congresos, jornadas y otros tipos de reuniones científicas, estancias en otras universidades y centros de investigación): el objetivo es facilitar la asistencia en congresos, jornadas u otros tipos de reuniones científicas, así como de estancias de los investigadores en otras instituciones de investigación.

- Ayudas para la publicación de resultados: esta convocatoria tiene como objetivo contribuir a la financiación de los gastos originados, especialmente, para la traducción al inglés de artículos científicos para que puedan ser publicados en revistas científicas internacionales.

- Ayudas para equipo e infraestructura destinada a la investigación: esta convocatoria tiene como objetivo promover la adquisición de equipo e infraestructura para la investigación.

La fecha límite para la presentación de solicitudes es el viernes día 27 de junio (no se admitirá ninguna solicitud recibida con posterioridad o que esté incompleta en esta fecha), y la resolución de las solicitudes recibidas se realizará a partir del día 8 de julio.

Para más información enviar un mensaje a recerca@uoc.edu.

The IN3 offers its researchers a service for the publication of the research works resulting from their research activities.

The aim is to offer the possibility for a high quality dissemination of the works obtained from the investigation carried out in the research groups and programmes. This dissemination is channelled through the UOC's and IN3's portals.

a. Tipes of document

b. Validation and publication circuit

c. Rights: Creative Commons licences