What can research management and support offices do to ready researchers for multidisciplinary calls?
Funders around the world are increasingly favouring interdisciplinarity, and the European Commission is no exception. Horizon Europe, the EU’s €95.5 billion, seven-year research and innovation funding programme, prizes efforts to bring several disciplines together in the projects it funds. But, for various reasons, researchers in many areas may be unfamiliar with interdisciplinary working and may be effectively impeded from reaching out.
This is where research managers can step in, says Tobias Hermans from Ghent University’s EU funding team. Here, he explains how.