In this blog post, we will discuss how to create and use effective calendars for complex research collaborations, as well as other academic networks. Having calendars for research projects is very useful to provide all involved scientists with a good overview of upcoming events.
However, conventional calendars are not very useful for complex network projects, because not all events are relevant for all involved project members. Here, we will discuss how the calendars you can find on foldercase can resolve this issue.
As a basis for creating research project calendars, it is important to remember that in foldercase, you can organize your research within your own team as team projects. Besides this, you can also organize them as research network projects, which are specifically designed for collaborative work that involves multiple research groups.
Calendars can be created for each of your teams, as well as separately for each network project. By organizing your research group’s work into multiple teams of individuals working closely together, you can thus create calendars that capture important events specifically for each team.
Note that you can export these calendars as files or URLs in order to synchronize them with your favourite calendar application.
How to create calendars for research collaborations and academic networks?
In typical research collaborations and academic networks, there will be events that are relevant for all involved members. These are usually communicated by the coordinators or managers of the respective networks.
However, since such networks contain multiple subprojects, there will be many events that are only relevant in the context of these subprojects and thus only for a subset of project members.
The ideal solution for a calendar system would be one where project-specific calendars can be flexibly combined depending on a member’s involvement across projects.
Foldercase provides such a calendar system by allowing you to create a specific calendar for each project that is part of a research collaboration or academic network.
These calendars can be combined with your team calendar, allowing you to compile a personalized research calendar that exactly reflects your project involvement.
The visibility of events matches the visibility settings defined for each event. Events can be marked as visible to all network members or private to a specific project.
Foldercase also allows you to save meetings directly on your team’s or network project’s overview page. These meetings are automatically added to your calendars and can be exported to external calendar applications.
We hope you find these research calendar features useful to keep a good overview of events and to individualize calendars according to project needs.