Core Facilities and Big Data

Main areas of interest and priorities of the Focus Group

1. Benchmarking: to suggest best practices in the following:

• Evaluation of Core Facilities (internal, external);
• Quality assurance;
• Structured self-assessment; and
• Reporting of CF performance.

2. Best practice sharing: 

• Share our experiences and identify and analyze present practices of operating Core Facilities (CF) at our institutions;
• Develop and suggest implementation of best practice at our institutions;
• Create a document containing suggestions for best operation of CF to be distributed to interested research institutions and government bodies; and
• Use CF for training and education among our institutions.

3. Financial sustainability: to analyze current practice and suggest the best models for the following:

• Public aid;
• Financial support;
• Level of support from local government/institution;
• Service contracts;
• Sustainability of core facilities; and
• Ways of getting funds.

4. Access rules and fees (open access): to discuss and identify the optimal approach for the following:

• Price calculation;
• Open access; and
• Definition of access rules to CF.

5. Database of equipment: to exchange information of the following:

• Existing instrumentation; and
• Share plans for future purchases (possible cooperation in tendering – approval from Strategy Board necessary).

6. Big data: to analyze the following:

• Data Management Plan (including Metadata schemas); and
• Big Data experience (sharing – training).

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Focus Group Members

Focus Group Chair: 

Kateřina Hošková

Focus Group Co-chair: 

Osvalds Pugovičs

Members of the Focus Group:  ​

Lenka Bojanovská
Ondřej Hradil
Michal Janota
Juraj Kopáček
Boris Klempa
Maria Cichalewska-Studzińska, PhD 
Filip Sedlić
Siniša Škokić
Andrius Kaselis
Jernej Jorgačevski
Martina Perše
György Balogh
Judit Jánosi
Georgi Gensuzov
Marin Mladenov
Mario Kirilov
Elena Poenaru
Mihai Burlibasa
Cristina Petcu
Dmitri Lubenets