The RM Training Handbook – from competences to programmes

In this 4th episode in the RM Framework Series, I finally zoom in on the piece we’ve been circling for a while: the handbook for research management training providers. I’m joined by Prof. Dr. Frank Ziegele and Niklas Rauterberg from the CHE Centre for Higher Education, who lead the work on the handbook within the Horizon Europe RM Framework project – an initiative that aims to build a European qualification system and quality label for research management training across the European Research Area.

Together we unfold what the handbook actually is: a competence-based process guide rather than a fixed curriculum. We talk through the Programme Development Guide (a structured checklist from programme idea to implementation and revision) and the Curricular Component Method, which clusters the massive RMComp Framework and earlier RM Roadmap work into usable competence sets for real trainings. You’ll hear how training providers can use guiding questions, examples and mapped competence lists to design or upgrade programmes, how “stackability” and interoperability across countries could work in practice, and why the handbook is being built as a living document that can evolve with AI, new roles and changing RM practice.

Time codes:

00:02:48 Introduction

00:04:49 Fly in

00:05:26 Why we need the handbook?

00:14:10 The purpose and structure

00:20:25 How to use the handbook

00:39:28 The added value and final reflections