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Phase 3: Negotiation. Arrangement of joint projects and network management.
Objective |
Facilitate agreement and negotiation processes in order to establish working groups by area, based on the priorities that have been defined for the call, to promote that the preliminary projects received be classified in such a way that the project formulation will be joint, multidisciplinary and inter-institutional. |
Required Roles |
Coordinators: they are communicators, lead the process from one phase to another, identify obstacles and generate proposals, optimize resources and generate progress reports.
Traders: experts in identifying needs, confidence builders in both groups. Consensus building skills around the agenda's commitments.
Advisors: people with expertise and experience in the area or topic.
Testers: experts in agreement techniques for negotiation with preliminary project and project proponents |
General Activities |
• Database organization of preliminary projects received in the call.
• Delivery of an invitation to all the candidates to participate in the working groups.
• Working groups organization by topic or area.
• Coordination of the grouping of similar projects or those with common objectives.
• Agreement establishment |
Required Artefacts |
• Invitation letter to participate in the work groups, based on the document produced in phase 2.
• Presentation model of the projects, with different modalities information. |
| Justification |
When an open and public call for the preliminary project presentation of a particular problem is made, one of the most common risks is that each individual or organization may consider that they have an interesting proposal and should be able to present it alone, as in traditional research. It is necessary to promote the co-formulation of preliminary projects, in order to guide the formation of innovation networks. It is important that in this negotiation process it becomes evident how project investment resources are optimized if the projects are inter-institutional, rather than individual.
The experience of knowing other visions of the same problem and opening up to another perspective, which could be more complex or more integral, is a fundamental stage to understand and begin to accept and respect the other, and is the foundation of confidence building and potential partnerships required, this is a process that takes time and effort |
Common problems |
• The difficulty of making agreements between organizations that have never worked together
• The difficulty of making agreements between actors who have never worked together (odd and even)
• Poor understanding of process around project formulation by non-traditional actors
• Poor understanding by evaluators, experts, or external advisors in relation to the characteristics of projects formulated by non-traditional actors. |
Success indicators |
• Successful grouping of similar projects
• Creation of networks around the call's topics for the formulation of projects. |
Products |
Agreements for the co-formulation of projects. |
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