Laboratory management workshops
Empowering the next generation of
successful scientific researchers
Introduction
Human Rights & Science (HR&S) recognises researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs in lower-income countries who present amazing social business ideas and support them. Our main aim is to implement locally developed and locally adapted solutions.
We address the context of scientific researchers and technicians with the purpose of facilitating an enabling environment. HR&S laboratory management workshops bring together
- scientific researchers
- technicians,
- scientific institution management,
- suppliers & manufacturers of scientific equipment,
- users of scientific findings, innovators, social entrepreneurs from Sub-Sahara Africa
for lectures and discussions with the aim of providing opportunities for them to bring positive change and development. We offer a transformational training package designed to inspire scientific stakeholders to become innovative change-makers.
Structure of the training
HR&S trainings are stuctured around evaluation planning. Evaluation planning describes how we monitor and evaluate the way we address our activites, as well as how we intend to use evaluation results for activity improvement and decision making. HR&S benefits from our own “Real-time Outcome Planning & Evaluation” tool (ROPE) and the training sessions are structured around the ROPE Strategy for Change template. It is obvious from the above that ROPE is an iterative process and that the Strategy for Change is continiously revised, as a result of lessons learned.
The set-up is two-fold; each reseacher / technician’s own career and workplan ambitions combined with the ambitions of the management of the institution where the reseacher / technician work.
HR&S trainings are instructor led and delivered by using a blended learning approach. It combines presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, group work and home work. Our facilitators are seasoned experts with years of experience, working as professionals and trainers in these fields.
Output
- One Output from the trainings are a ROPE Strategy for Change sheet. The SfC sheet supports the development work of the participants/institution directly after the training is completed.
- Upon successful completion of the training and individual presentation, participants will be issued with a certificate.
Expected Outcome
Increased number of:
- Functioning advanced scientific equipment.
- Access to consumables.
- Income to the university through laboratory work.
Topics
Access to
- Well-functioning advanced scientific equipment.
Knowledge about
- Laboratory management
Coordination around
- Service and maintenance of scientific equipment
Empowering
- Teamwork.
- Net-working.
- Knowledge-sharing.
- Time-management.
Strengthening institutional capacity
- Strategy for change.
- Sustainable economy.
- Accounting.
- Stakeholder analysis.
- Evaluation planning.
- Service and maintenance of scientific equipment..
Sharing about Practical strategies
- Ethical and management principles.
- Trust, transparency, and accountability.
- Cross-cultural understanding.
- Real-time outcome planning and evaluation.
- Physical infrastructure, financial support, coaching.
- Testing the strength of scientific evidence for impact.
Action Areas
- RISE Support Centres
- Investment capital loans
- Accountability management
- Branding & Public relations
- Motivation
- Social enterprise management
- Impact assessment
Annual Training package
Each workshop serie starts with an introduction at an HR&S RISE Centre, continues with nine hours, offered in sections, online workshops managed from HR&S Sweden and ends with presentation by each participant at the HR&S RISE Centres.
Participants receives homework to be addresses in-between the online sessions. Each participant prepares a presentation to share during the last session. Good presentations are rewarded with certificates.
Accreditation
Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be issued with a certificate.
Attendance
Delegates should be proficient in English.
Each course attracts 20 participants.
Eligibility
Staff and students connected to scentific institutions.
Date & venue
Each seminar & workshop serie is repeated every a year.
February : Research management.
March: Laboratory management.
April: Social enterprising.
Price & payment
The fee for attending a workshop series of seven sessions is Euro 10.
Please, transfer the fee to HR&S RISE Centres different bank accounts before commencement of the training. Send proof of payment through the email info@humanrightsandscience.se.
You are welcome to contact us
tailor-made Trainings
Our trainings are structured around on-line webinars managed from HR&S Sweden.
Our tailor-made trainings are designed according to the request by the customer. Among the different options are:
- The training can address research management or laboratory management, or both.
- The training can be in the format of seminars, or workshops or both.
- It may start with an introduction at an HR&S RISE Centre and end with presentation by each participant at the HR&S RISE Centres, or one of these options or none.
- It can contain a certain amount of information combined with a test, and then generate a certificate for the participansts that manage the requirements.
- It can be held condenced during one week, or be spread out over a period of maximum three months.
- The number of webinars can range between five up to twenty. Each shall be one, two, three or four hours. Participants receives homework to be addresses in-between the online sessions.
Accreditation
Upon successful completion of the training and individual presentation, participants will be issued with a certificate.
Attendance
Delegates should be proficient in English.
Each course preferably attracts around 20 participants.
Eligibility
Staff and students connected to scentific institutions.
Venue
The workshops will be held online and possibly on-site at our HR&S RISE Centres.
Price & payment
The cost for one series of tailor-made training is agreed on from case to case. The institution pays on average Euro 5,000 for 10 hours of training.