Workshop for Field Coordinators: Building on best practices

Sep 7, 2020
On 27 August 2020, the third Field Coordinators' Workshop was held in the framework of Work Package 3 with the aim to discuss how to build on the best practices identified and implemented in the context of the BrightnESS and BrightnESS² projects.

This was the third one in a series of workshops organised since the beginning of the project. The previous ones were held in February 2019 at FZJ, Jülich and September 2019 at ESS, Lund. The third workshop was attended remotely by the staff of the In-Kind Group of ESS and the Field Coordinators at the Partners Institutes.

The presentations and the relevant discussions were characterised by a practical approach, aiming at defining the most appropriate ways to:

  • Map the best practices already developed and implemented, and identify the Partners that are implementing each practice,
  • Work out processes and procedures currently implemented or in development, that could be characterised as best practices in the future.

During the workshop a number of proposals to strengthen the collaboration across the different Hubs was discussed. The participants proposed to dedicate some of the biweekly meetings of Field Coordinators and ESS to specific topics and organise them in the form of mini-workshops. The group also discussed the idea to transform the Field Coordinators' Network into a permanent pan-European association for the management of In-Kind Contributions.

Partners: 
ESS, ESS Bilbao, FZJ, INFN, STFC, TUM - FRM II, Wigner RCP