Workshops
ESIIL Team Science Trainings
You can find all of our team science related workshops and trainings posted open access to our Zenodo ESIIL Community.
Current trainings
For ESIIL working groups there are three trainings that may be of interest, these include:
Many funding agencies require collaboration plans as part of research proposals, yet these documents are often written primarily to satisfy reviewer expectations rather than to support how teams actually work together. As a result, collaboration plans often become static documents that do little to guide day-to-day collaboration, decision-making, or coordination once a project begins. This workshop views collaboration plans as living tools for collective work. Drawing on insights from the science of team science and facilitation approaches, the session distinguishes between proposal-facing collaboration work (what a PI typically writes for a funder) and work-facing collaboration practices (what teams must negotiate together to function effectively). Participants will explore why common challenges such as misaligned expectations, unclear decision authority, communication breakdowns, unresolved conflict, and inequitable recognition often persist even when a formal collaboration plan exists.
This training session is designed for researchers, project leads, and team members at any career stage, including those with little or no prior experience writing collaboration plans. Participants will leave with practical language, tools, and a clearer understanding of how collaboration planning can support healthier, more effective, and more equitable research teams beyond the proposal stage.
In this training learn how to assess team effectiveness beyond quanitative outputs and how we might expand how we evaluate ourselves and our team members. With a brief look into team science, this training will focus on individual and group reflections on team effectiveness and play through a couple of scenarios to consider how we might think and apply team effectiveness assessments differently for the betterment of our teams.
Ever wondered why sometimes writing a proposal and leading it to completion with your team is easier or harder? Our implicit and explicit leadership and communication styles and expectations all affect what types of problems we are good at solving and what types of solutions we are good at building. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn to recognize four different styles of leadership and problem solving and how that affects the proposal development process. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to identify strengths and weaknesses of these four styles, which one best fits you, and how your style affects your proposals, leadership, communication and team members.