Activities
Activities in the secretariat have in 2008 been marked by the intense activity and level of ambition in the programme groups, organisation development in the secretariat and the DEFF review. Moreover, the secretariat has had to prepare for the inclusion of the upper secondary schools (gymnasium), social and health colleges (SOSU) and Centres for Adult Education (VUC) in DEFF. These entered the DEFF cooperation as per 1. January 2009. They represent almost 200 institutions, and it has been all-important to gear DEFF’s organisation to the handling of the new participants. The secretariat has also worked on preparations for the accession of the new steering committee, the mandate of the former steering committee expiring on 31. December 2008.
As for the secretariat itself, work has been going on with the new guidelines for applications and the interplay with the programme groups.
Apart from the day-to-day running of the office, the secretariat has continued to work with various professional development tasks. One rather resource-demanding project has been the work on the establishment of a data well. In connection with the clarification projects in the programme group Information Supply, the secretariat participated in the preparation of the final report, and was still involved in the follow-up phase at the turn of the year.
The secretariat has also dealt with a number of assignments in connection with work on the bibliometric research indicator.
The library sector has been involved in work on a technical infrastructure for research registration which will support appropriation of grants to universities on the basis of research activity (the so-called quality-distributed basis subsidies).
The international collaboration in Knowledge Exchange (KE) has changed organisational structure during 2008. On the basis of an evaluation of the collaboration, the parties agreed on forming a smaller steering committee with added decision-making competency and with only one management representative from each of the three cooperation organisations JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in Great Britain, SURFfoundation in Holland and DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in Germany.
In future the strategic management will thus be pla- from The Danish Research Database. ced in the steering committee combined with an annual Strategic Forum, with participation of the The secretariat has entered into an agreement with partners’ top management. The Strategic firm Forum the consultancy The Lime Guild about preparing held in November was a great success, and every- an analysis of future library service to researchers. one agreed to continue working with the main themes The final report is expected to be ready some time from 2008 as well as intensifying the dialogue with during autumn 2009. the EU Commission. The final contract about a continued KE cooperation has been signed by the four partners and is valid three years from the 1. Septem-ber 2008 until 1. September 2011.
A DEFF review was held in September 2008, where key persons from the international milieu were invited, together with the steering committee and the chairmen of the programme groups, to discuss DEFF’s strategy, vision, action plans and general activities. The result was two productive days which provided food for thought.
DEFF-responsible Bo Öhrström continues as member of the steering committee for videnskab.dk as the representative for the Ministry of Culture. The portal, the objective of which is i.a. to attract more attention to the research institutions and make these more exciting for children and young people, was launched with great success at the beginning of 2008. Bo Öhrström also chairs the WAYF steering committee. Finally Bo Öhrström is the chairman of Technical Committee and continues to be heavily involved in the implementation of the bibliometric indicator for the Research and Innovation Agency. The bibliometric indicator is based on technology from The Danish Research Database.
The secretariat has entered into an agreement with the consultancy firm The Lime Guild about preparing an analysis of future library service to researchers. The final report is expected to be ready some time during autumn 2009.
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