Community building workshop

Sufficient and thriving communities encourage and facilitate for the participants to engage, collaborate, network, share information about funding and resources. Peer support and mentoring, community support, outreach, communication and response to external calls or hardships are additional potential benefits of the strong community.

This workshop aims to provide the tools for science-oriented communities, and for the communities that would improve the well-being of researchers, such as mental health peer networks or well being committees. Target audience of the workshop includes scientists, community, consortium project and grant managers, and support staff members.

As an result of this workshop the participants will have a detailed overview of the community they would like to build and next steps to take. 

While the overview is not intended to be a full step-by-step guide, it will help the participants to define the main goals, targeted groups, and the actions they may need to take in order to create a scientific community.

The workshop of 2 hours has following parts: 

1. Introduction: includes definitions and building blocks of community, benefits and challenges of scientific communities for members and founders, various roles within the community;

2. Intentional aspects: participants will be given questions to help them formulate aspects of the community they are willing to create related to values, mission and vision. We will discuss the mission statement  and how it communicates the purpose of the community; the vision statement will provide insight into what the community hopes to achieve or become in the future; finally, the values statement will reflect the community’s core principles and ethics;

3. Organizational aspects: participants will be given a handout with steps to take in order to have the approximate plan and to do list to create a community. We will discuss how to look for members of the community, and the best ways to communicate with them; how to find allies, how to apply for an internal budget, how to create the community structure and so on.

We can meet where it suits you best

online or on campus.