Training programme for impactful researchers
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March - December 2026
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Course summary
Storytell Your Impact
Learn core storytelling frameworks and apply them to your own research. You’ll define the impact you aim to create, build a clear protagonist and narrative arc, and practice delivering an engaging story that resonates beyond academia with feedback from peers and facilitators.
Duration: 3 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Negotiation Skills for Researchers: Finding Common Ground and Reaching Win–Win Outcomes
Build confidence to negotiate effectively in common research scenarios such as supervision, collaborations, authorship, funding, and employment conditions. Through practical frameworks and role-plays, you’ll learn to separate interests from positions, manage power dynamics, and prepare for challenging conversations with professionalism.
Duration: 2 hours | Date: TBD 2026
External Engagement for Impact
Explore how meaningful external engagement drives scientific and societal impact. You’ll identify and prioritise stakeholders, map your own pathway to impact, and practise designing interdisciplinary collaborations that align with institutional and broader impact expectations using simple, practical tools and case-based exercises.
Duration: 2.5 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Foundations of University–Business Collaboration
Get a structured introduction to the university–business collaboration ecosystem. You’ll examine key activities, barriers, drivers, and support mechanisms, and learn how to identify strong partners. The session guides you to craft a concise, partner-focused value proposition for your own project or idea.
Duration: 2.5 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Navigating Conflicts: Practical Conflict Resolution for Researchers
Strengthen your ability to handle conflict constructively in research settings. This session focuses on practical communication and negotiation approaches to clarify interests, reduce tension, and reach workable agreements—especially when stakes, expectations, or hierarchy make conversations difficult.
Duration: TBD hours | Date: TBD 2026
The Researcher's Networking Playbook: Connect, Collaborate, Conquer
Learn a practical approach to networking for career exploration beyond academia. You’ll map your current network, identify new target contacts, craft authentic outreach messages, and practise simple follow-up habits that turn one-off conversations into sustained professional relationships and opportunities.
Duration: 1.5–2 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Foundations of the Growth Mindset: Doing Something Creative
Develop an entrepreneurial growth mindset to navigate change and career transitions. Through guest insights and future-focused reflection, you’ll explore how researchers reframe uncertainty, expand possibilities, and build agency. You’ll leave with a clearer, more flexible narrative about who you are becoming.
Duration: 1.5 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Discover Your Resilience
Understand the building blocks of resilience in demanding research environments. You’ll explore key indicators, practise perspective shifts, and identify your personal resilience resources. The session supports you in creating a realistic, personalised resilience plan to manage stress and sustain performance over time.
Duration: 2.5 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Managing Your Research: Project Management Essentials
Gain core project management tools tailored to research contexts. You’ll learn to structure and plan your work, anticipate risks, map stakeholders, align activities with grants and deliverables, and improve coordination with teams. The session emphasises hands-on application to participants’ real projects.
Duration: 3 hours | Date: TBD 2026
The Decision Advantage: Strategic Thinking in Action & Knowledge Broker Strategies
Sharpen strategic thinking for impact in uncertain environments. You’ll map stakeholders, barriers, and trends around your project, identify your toughest decisions, and learn approaches used by knowledge brokers. Through peer feedback, you’ll practise pitching concrete next steps that move your idea forward.
Duration: 1.5–2 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Ideation
Explore Design Thinking-inspired methods to generate and refine ideas rooted in real problems. You’ll practise problem exploration, craft strong “How might we” questions, test brainstorming techniques, and apply simple filters to select the most promising concepts for early validation and next-step planning.
Duration: 2.5 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Funding Your Ideas: How to Find Opportunities and Write Winning Proposals
Learn how to navigate EU funding opportunities and translate your idea into a competitive proposal. The session covers the logic of strong applications, evaluation processes, common pitfalls, and practical steps from opportunity identification to submission using the Funding and Tenders Portal.
Duration: 2 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Inclusive by Design: EDI Practices for High-Performing Research Teams
Move beyond values to practical inclusion mechanics that improve team performance. You’ll diagnose risks using a Team EDI Heatmap, practise simple protocols for inclusive meetings and transparent decisions, and draft actionable charter clauses for authorship, resources, accessibility, and remote fairness.
Duration: 2 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Innovate for Impact
Clarify the purpose behind your research and connect it to real-world outcomes. Using the Golden Circle and the SDGs, you’ll reflect on your “why,” identify likely areas of societal value, and brainstorm applications and partnerships that could strengthen the impact narrative of your work.
Duration: 2.5 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Managing Your Work and Yourself Effectively: Time Management as a Transversal Competence for Researchers
Improve how you manage time, energy, and priorities in complex research environments. You’ll explore self-regulation, evidence-based prioritisation, and communication habits that reduce overload. The session includes a short action-planning lab to help you protect deep-work time and sustain well-being.
Duration: 2 hours | Date: TBD 2026
Turn your research into real-world impact!
Your research can change the world — but impact doesn’t happen by accident.
ReSkillSpan empowers researchers to translate knowledge into action, build collaborations beyond academia, and design projects that make a difference. Through practical training, peer learning, and mentor support, you’ll gain the skills to take your ideas further into policy, industry, communities, or public conversation.
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Design an impact project based on your current or future research
Through the ReSkillSpan training, you’ll develop a concrete strategy to extend the reach and influence of your work beyond academia, using your own PhD, postdoc or collaborative R&D as the basis for your Impact Project. You’ll be supported by mentors with relevant expertise, who provide targeted feedback, advice and broader guidance on skills like communication, collaboration and coping with uncertainty, aligned with the five-module Impact Project framework.
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