O2 : UPPScience Community of Practice

The partners leading the development of the CoP of UPPScience will first take an analytical look at the state of the art, size, facilities and the successes achieved and challenges met in the development of the CoP in VISConti. The partnership of the project was constituted to include the mass of the population of the CoP from VISConti and new comers so that this project can exploit and build on the experience and continue with the maturity process of the Community.

After the state of the art and inventory  the new dynamic of the enlarged CoP will be established with the wider scope and increased range of tools it will have in UPPScience.
The leaders of this IO, VisMedNet and NTNU, will look into changes to the profiling process of members of the CoP, since, in UPPScience, profiles of members will only be tagged if they propose or review any science projects. Professional profiles will also be tagged with research publications and peer reviews.

The leaders of the CoP in UPPScience will also determine relationships, cooperation forms and dynamics of publishers and reviewers and this, together with the profiling process, will be the subject of liaison with the technical team that will develop IO3 and IO4, so that the required dynamic and tools are incorporated into the new enlarged platform of the CoP

The lead partners will also design training content for four training activities of UPPScience so that participants can understand the dynamic, the tools, the profiling and cooperation forms inside the CoP, since this will be as critical to the success of the CoP as the requirement of critical mass and quality standards.

The partnership will all be involved in the development and delivery of the CoP when, under the leadership of VisMedNet and NTNU, they will engage their management staff, teachers and trainers in VET, students in early HE and industry. They will generate an augmented critical mass to secure the successful cross border dynamic in the CoP that enables exchange in various languages, theme, field of study and interest. The partners will take part in the profiling exercise and those benefiting from the training activities of UPPScience will also act as catalysts to engage peers in the CoP and support their activity within it. The CoP  will have a target of 200 members.

The costs related to this IO are staff costs of all the partnership involved in engagement in the CoP and travel costs related to the delivery of the training activities of UPPScience.