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Facilitating Interdisciplinary research at PUCRS, southern Brazil: challenges and gains

Facilitating Interdisciplinary research at PUCRS, southern Brazil: challenges and gains. Carlos Graeff Teixeira. Overcoming Barriers. A "cultural revolution"; changes are not easily accepted Political decision - Higher administrative officers and Board of Directors

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Facilitating Interdisciplinary research at PUCRS, southern Brazil: challenges and gains

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  1. Facilitating Interdisciplinary research at PUCRS, southern Brazil: challenges and gains • Carlos Graeff Teixeira

  2. Overcoming Barriers • A "cultural revolution"; changes are not easily accepted • Political decision - Higher administrative officers and Board of Directors • Seeding money + fellowships: "PRAIAS" • Forum on Interdisciplinarity, monthly, year 5 • Transversal Discipline for PhD and MSc students - "Studies on complexity and interdisciplinarity"

  3. Overcoming barriers 2 • "inertia"; the important role of research administrators • Project "Reflexões" • Training staff • Supporting the establishment of ABGEPq

  4. Associação Brasileira de Gestores de PesquisaABGEPq, Brazilian Society of Research Managers • Established June 24th 2013 • First Annual Meeting, november 2014

  5. Overcoming barriers 3 • Academia disconnected from societal needs • How to identify socially relevant problems? • How to institucionalize search tools or strategies for identification of relevant problems?

  6. Interdisciplinary architecture

  7. Ideal vs Real • "Small" or "big" interdisciplinarity? • Degree of interaction • Criteria for judging grant applications

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