The work package 4 is specifically dedicated to ensuring the involvement of IMP’s early-stage researchers in terms of providing adequate support by strategic partners as part of their training and (co-)mentoring activities. Hence, different staff exchange activities were conducted in the project framework. While in the first reporting period, this WP was affected by the COVID measures, in the years 2022 and 2023 the staff exchange activities continued as planned in the GA.
Besides organizing the staff exchanges of IMP personnel in the premises of strategic partners (AIT, NUIG), within this work package other staff exchanges were conducted such as
- hosting of distinguished foreign researchers (from AIT and NUIG) and their participation in the expert group meetings and training of IMP researchers;
- hosting of distinguished foreign researchers at IMP to participate at SINERGY events (Advisory Board meeting, SINERGY Conference, training, thematic meetings);
- travel of researchers from other organizations from Serbia e.g. from the Institute Nikola Tesla (INT) to AIT, Austria).
The only staff exchange that occurred in the first project year was the visit of NUIG staff to AIT in November 2021, please check D4.1 Report on Mutual Exchange of Personnel and Training Activities.
Starting from March 2022, many knowledge transfer and joint activities were conducted on premises (at IMP, AIT and NUIG) as is summarized in Section 2 of this report. Having in mind that deliverables that were previously submitted in WP3, WP4 and WP5 framework already documented the activities, Section 3 and Section 4 point to few examples from the years 2022 and 2023, while further details can be found on the SINERGY website at the following link Staff Exhange | Project Sinergy (project-sinergy.org).
Examples of online training events are given in Section 5.
