Book Your Place
Consultancy in the university or research institute context involves leveraging academic expertise to provide specialised advice and solutions to external organisations.
This course highlights the importance of structuring consultancy agreements and ensuring compliance with consultancy policy to maximise benefits, including enhanced societal impact, additional revenue for the institution, and professional growth for researchers.
Participants will explore how knowledge transfer partnerships can be harnessed to drive innovation and ensure successful consultancy engagements.
The course also covers best practices in training and knowledge transfer, helping institutions create a robust consultancy policy that supports impactful collaborations between academia and external organisations.
For more information on the programme click on More Info.
Why Join The course?
We expect that by the end of these 3 days you will have developed your understanding of how academic consultancy fits into the wider university context; how to raise its profile as a worthwhile activity for research institutions to support and how it adds value.
Course Objectives
The course objectives are to:
- Gain awareness of different models of support for consultancy
- Understand the benefits and challenges
- Understand how various approaches can impact on policy development and operational set up
Key Topics
The key course topics are:
- What is consultancy and why should we support it?
- Consultancy policy and its implications
- Risks and mitigation
- Exploring the legal issues and key contractual terms
- Different operational models discussion
Booking Options
Testimonials
Perfect balance of learning and networking.
Smiljka Vikic-Topic
University of Zagreb, Croatia
ASTP corroborates the strong need for profound insights and exchanges on practices, instruments and competencies that cut across functional, organisational, institutional, sectorial and geographic boundaries.
Koenraad Debackere
KU Leuven, Belgium
Most experienced technology transfer crew in the Europe.
Krzysztof Maternicki
Jan Dlugosz University, Poland
Three days of learning and networking in Dublin at ASTP annual conference. What a great event!!
Sandra Aresta
CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
This course offers an opportunity to meet likeminded people, share tips and tricks, and dive into different approaches to help you set up and improve KTO processes.
Brechtje Vreenegoor
Radboud University, Netherlands
Subscribe to our newsletter
Join our newsletter and get the latest news