Center for Science Management
The Zentrum für Wissenschaftsmanagement eV , or ZWM for short, is a non - profit self - help organization of the scientific institutions and has organized itself as a member-supported, non-profit association. The office of the association is based in Speyer .
overview
The Center for Science Management offers advanced training for science managers and scientists, advises scientific institutions on organizational development, strategy or evaluation processes and operates the knowledge and network portal "Wissenschaftsmanagement-online". The association, founded in 2002, has around 80 institutional members in 2016, in particular universities, research institutions, funding organizations and companies. The founding members include the German Research Foundation , the German Academic Exchange Service , the German Cancer Research Center , the University Rectors' Conference , the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers , the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the German Aerospace Center .
history
In 2000, the German university chancellors, the heads of the non-university research institutions and the research institute for public administration, together with the Helmholtz Association and the current German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer, developed the idea of a center for science management and worked out a basic concept that was incorporated into the Founding of the ZWM was incorporated.
Goals and fields of activity
The ZWM operates nationwide and, depending on the project, cooperates with various foundations and research funding organizations. As a platform and network, the ZWM promotes the exchange across the "pillars" of the German science system and with partners from business. Its aim is to take up impulses, challenges and needs from the science system, to bundle them and to implement them in further training offers, consulting services and promotion of the network of science managers. At the Science Campus Speyer, the ZWM works closely with the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and the German Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV). The German University of Administrative Sciences and the ZWM jointly designed the four-semester part-time master’s degree in science management, which has existed in its current form since 2012. Application-related research is another task of the ZWM. In close cooperation with the FÖV, an interdisciplinary research network was established that carried out empirical studies of the institutional framework for innovative research and was headed by Dorothea Jansen ( DFG- funded research group: "Governance of Research"). In addition, a series of studies based on control theory and reform policy deals with the transformation paths and the efficiency of the German system of non-university research.
literature
- HF de Boer, J. Enders, U. Schimank: Comparing higher education governance systems in four European countries. In: NC Soguel, P. Jaccard (Ed.): Governance and performance of education systems. Springer, Dordrecht 2008, pp. 35–54.
- D. Jansen (Ed.): New Governance for Research. Proceedings on the occasion of the science policy conference of the research group "Governance of Research". Berlin, 14.-15. March 2007. (= interdisciplinary writings on science studies. 5). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009.
- T. Gross, N. Arnold: Regulatory structures of non-university research. Organization and financing of research institutions in Germany. (= Interdisciplinary writings on science studies. Volume 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007.
- Ada Pellert (Ed.): Introduction to University and Science Management. A guide for theory and practice. Lemmens, 2006.
- K. Holz, S. Kepler, T. Mundi: Promote education. Europeanization, financing and shaping of university reform. (= Villigst Profile. 7). Lit, 2005.
Individual evidence
- ^ ZWM website, founding members page ( Memento from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on May 20, 2016.