Thank you for your inte
rest in our call for Mentors for our OpenInnoTrain 2024 Summer School, to be hosted at TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia. OpenInnoTrain Summer Schools are targeted at Ph.D. students, Early-Career Researchers (ECRs) - (this may also be of interest to Professional Staff who directly support researchers).
The Tallinn-based 2024 Summer School will take place on 3-7 June @ TalTech, TalTech Mektory Building: Address: Raja 15, Tallinn. We welcome EOI's from all over the world and across disciplines. Please note, this is an IN-PERSON only event.
The Summer Schools offer an excellent opportunity for participants to develop skills for creating impact and to design their own research impact journey. Participants will learn how to identify and contextualize the impact of their research, engage with stakeholders, track impact outputs, and communicate real-world impact. It is also a great place to build new connections and explore future collaborations. On the first day of the 5-day program, we will allocate participants into small, diverse groups/teams (diversity around discipline, experience etc).
See the draft background Program here. Noting, we do expect some tweaks leading up to the Summer School, the updated versions of the program will be available in the OpenInnoTrain website.
One Group Mentor will be allocated to each of the groups/teams to help them understand the OpenInnoTrain canvases and guide them throughout the course of the week during the workshop sessions. Whilst we welcome diversity in mentoring approaches across teams, and do not wish to be fully prescriptive around this role (different approaches are valuable), there will be mandatory pre-event train-the-trainer high-level coaching around the OpenInnoTrain canvases that will be used by the groups. There will be one 90-minute online train-the-trainer session for all Mentors well in advance of the Summer School.
Benefits of being a Summer School Mentor: share your experience/expertise with Ph.D. Students, Early Career Researchers, Network, build/expand your coaching skills, add value to the OpenInnoTrain Summer School program, gain experience using Canvases to ideate and collaborate, experience working in teams across discipline areas, receive a certificate of participation / thanks for your contribution as a Mentor.
Requirements of Mentors: mentors must be available to attend the full five-days of the Summer School; commit to participate in the 90-minute online train-the-trainer that will be scheduled in advance of the Summer School.
Mentor Suitability: Mentors can be senior researchers; postdoc researchers; professional staff who work directly with and support research staff - or who would like to up-skill to work with them. If you have any questions about suitability, please email us: info@openinnotrain.eu - we would love to hear from you!
Expressions of Interest (EOI) to participate in the Tallinn Summer School as a mentor must be submitted by the deadline: Friday 12th April 2024. Mentor EOIs will be reviewed via a two-stage process with all applicants being notified by Tuesday 16th April if they have been successful in progressing to the next stage (or not) which is an invitation to a brief, online, informal interview.
IMPORTANT: You can apply as both a Mentor and Participant as a back-up plan should your Mentoring EOI not be successful.
Participation registration for the Summer School is free of charge, however, participants (including Mentors must cover their own travel, transport, accommodation, and living expenses whilst in Tallinn - applies to people not already living locally).
Best wishes, OpenInnoTrain Team
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Project Lead:
The OpenInnoTrain Project is led by Anne-Laure Mention, Director, Global Business Innovation Enabling Impact Platform, Professor School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
This Project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 823971.
