TY - JOUR
T1 - The science behind soft skills: Do's and Don'ts for early career researchers and beyond. A review paper from the EU-CardioRNA COST Action CA17129 [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
AU - Acharya, S
AU - Preda, MB
AU - Papatheodorou, I
AU - Palioura, D
AU - Giardoglou, P
AU - Tsata, V
AU - Erceg, S
AU - Barbalata, T
AU - Ben-Aicha, S
AU - Martino, F
AU - Nicastro, L
AU - Lazou, A
AU - Beis, D
AU - Martelli, F
AU - Sopic, M
AU - Emanueli, C
AU - Kardassis, D
AU - Devaux, Y
N1 - Acknowledgements
F.M. is funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (“Ricerca Corrente”, RF-2019-12368521, The Italian Cardiology Network IRCCS RCR-2021-23671212), Telethon Foundation (GGP19035), AFM-Telethon (# 23054), EU Horizon 2020 COVIRNA (#101016072) and CardioRNA COST action (CA17129). A.L. is funded by The Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-19-0540) and Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (VEGA SR 2/0141/18). D.B. is supported by the Greek General Secreteriat for Research and Development European Social Fund, the European Union and National Funds (Aristia I, zfValves -270), the Fondation Sante, a scholarship (P.G.) from the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation (IKY, Operational Program “Human Resources Development–Education and Lifelong Learning”, Partnership Agreement PA 2014-2020). C.E. is funded by the British Heart Foundation Programme Grant and Personal Chair Awards (RG/15/5/31446 and CH/15/1/31199), the EU Horizon projects MEDIRAD (NFRP Call) and COVIRNA (grant agreement # 101016072), and Research England (Global Challenges Research fund 2019/2021). D.K is funded by CardioRNA COST action (CA17129). This work is supported by a grant from the National Research Fund to S.A (Grant # AFR14566210). This work is supported by grants from EU Horizon 2020 project COVIRNA (Grant # 101016072), the National Research Fund (grants # C14/BM/8225223, C17/BM/11613033 and COVID-19/2020-1/14719577/miRCOVID), CardioRNA COST action (CA17129), the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and the Heart Foundation—Daniel Wagner of Luxembourg to Y.D. This article is based upon work from EU-CardioRNA COST Action CA17129 (www.cardiorna.eu) funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology
PY - 2023/4/13
Y1 - 2023/4/13
N2 - Soft skills are the elementary management, personal, and interpersonal abilities that are vital for an individual to be efficient at workplace or in their personal life. Each work place requires different set of soft skills. Thus, in addition to scientific/technical skills that are easier to access within a short time frame, several key soft skills are essential for the success of a researcher in today’s international work environment. In this paper, the trainees and trainers of the EU-CardioRNA COST Action CA17129 training school on soft skills present basic and advanced soft skills for early career researchers. Here, we particularly emphasize on the importance of transferable and presentation skills, ethics, literature reading and reviewing, research protocol and grant writing, networking, and career opportunities for researchers. All these skills are vital but are often overlooked by some scholars. We also provide tips to ace in aforementioned skills that are crucial in a day-to-day life of early and late career researchers in academia and industry.
AB - Soft skills are the elementary management, personal, and interpersonal abilities that are vital for an individual to be efficient at workplace or in their personal life. Each work place requires different set of soft skills. Thus, in addition to scientific/technical skills that are easier to access within a short time frame, several key soft skills are essential for the success of a researcher in today’s international work environment. In this paper, the trainees and trainers of the EU-CardioRNA COST Action CA17129 training school on soft skills present basic and advanced soft skills for early career researchers. Here, we particularly emphasize on the importance of transferable and presentation skills, ethics, literature reading and reviewing, research protocol and grant writing, networking, and career opportunities for researchers. All these skills are vital but are often overlooked by some scholars. We also provide tips to ace in aforementioned skills that are crucial in a day-to-day life of early and late career researchers in academia and industry.
U2 - 10.12688/openreseurope.15746.1
DO - 10.12688/openreseurope.15746.1
M3 - Article
VL - 3
JO - Open Research Europe
JF - Open Research Europe
IS - 55
ER -