Writing grant projects and international publications within the Twinning project "Capacity building of Ukrainian researchers for sustainable livelihoods: socio-economic development"
On June 5-9, 2023, a number of events took place in Warsaw as part of the Twinning project of cooperation between NUBiP and the University of Reading. The event was moderated by Dr. Sarah Cardey, Emma Beschizza, and Associate Professor Alla Kravchenko.
The representatives of the University of Reading presented the methodology of writing project proposals, choosing a project idea, finding sources of funding, features of national and international programs, using the example of successfully implemented cases. In particular, the possibilities of obtaining funding under the UK Research and Innovations state program (https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/) were described in detail. After processing the theoretical material, the team of the department of administrative management and foreign economic activity, namely: Vitaliy Lutsiak, Nataliia Kovalenko, Olena Kovtun, Oleksandra Ralko, presented their project ideas, identified the strengths that should be used in project design, determined the expected results and impact of the project at the level of university, state, region, world. They discussed the need to apply a strategic approach to grant design planning.
The second half of the event program was devoted to the publication of project research results as one of the key indicators for assessing the significance of the implemented project. Considered different approaches to publishing research results in high-ranking publications. The possibilities for publishing articles in open and closed access in publications such as Agricultural Systems and Journal of Rural Studies were studied in detail and compared.
Sarah Cardey proposed simple methods of disseminating research results and increasing the citation of articles, in particular, posting articles on personal pages of social networks, on the pages of departments, faculties, on the university website, on platforms for discussing the results of scientific research, for example, theconversation.com, which is common in the UK.
It is worth noting that the structure of the University of Reading has a special marketing department, which is engaged in the promotion of teachers' articles, professional expansion of the circle of readers of university employees' publications.
Oleksandra Ralko, Associate Professor of
Administrative Management and Foreign Economic Activity Department
