Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Literacy Research [ICHL]

Brief description

In the second funding phase, the sub-project PMO plus will be responsible for the coordination, project management and quality assurance of the HLCA research network, analogous to the first funding phase. This includes network communication, risk management, planning and implementation of network and advisory board meetings, summer schools and workshops as well as dissemination of results and reporting. In addition to the technical-administrative goals, the subproject also pursues scientific goals, which lie in conducting a qualitative policy field analysis in the area of health literacy in childhood and adolescence.

Project description

Objectives of the subproject PMO plus , which will be located exclusively at the Bielefeld site in the second funding phase, are to be divided into technical and scientific. Two modules will be used for this purpose: (1) the genuine project management (technical objectives) and (2) the research module (scientific objectives). Three members will be responsible for the subproject PMO plus: the network coordinator Prof. Dr. Ullrich Bauer, his deputy Dr. Paulo Pinheiro and the project manager Orkan Okan. As in the first funding phase of the HLCA research network, the subproject PMO plus will coordinate the scientific and technical organization of the research project in the second funding phase from 2018-2021 in close cooperation with the Department of Research Funding & Transfer (FFT), the central service institution at Bielefeld University for management, acquisition and implementation of third-party funded projects as well as for knowledge and innovation transfer.

(1) The more technical objectives of project management include the establishment (and adaptation), maintenance and development of structures that support and ensure the implementation of the work plans of all subprojects. The PMO plus subproject will be responsible for establishing communication structures, as well as quality assurance and risk management, and implementing these for the overall network. By creating structured, transparent and efficient workflows, PMO plus will make a significant contribution to achieving the objectives of the network and subprojects. The technical work objectives can be summarized as follows:

• Support the collaborative management in the execution of the collaborative project and related activities and in the achievement of the scientific and technical objectives at the collaborative and sub-project level,
• Execution of professional project management (day-to-day management), Reporting (milestone reports, interim reports, final reports, project reports) and maintaining communication with BMBF, DLR and other authorities,
• Planning of collaborative activities (collaborative meeting, summer schools, workshops, project meetings, controlling, risk management, supervision, administration),
• Adjustment of the Project Quality Plan (PQP) as needed, Conducting needs assessments, New formation of Steering Committee (SC), International Expert Panel (IEP) and Stakeholder Advisory Board (AB),
• Networking and capacity building support, proposal development and acquisition of external funding at EU level (FP8 and FP9; Horizon2020, Cost, Chafea) and at federal level (BMBF, DFG),
• Transfer and synthesis of collaborative results into practice and policy in cooperation with the subproject GenHEcon at the Duisburg-Essen site, Dissemination and publication.

(2) The more scientific goals of the research module of the PMO plus subproject include policy research with a governance-oriented, qualitative policy field analysis in the area of health literacy. Here, policy-related implementation research takes the primary analysis perspective, which no longer understands only the state as the primacy of political leadership, but also includes other policy actors involved in health policy action and political governance. The primary goal of the research will be the generation of evidence-based knowledge, the analysis of national and international health literacy policies, the derivation of recommendations for policy and governance actors, and the generation of good practices for policy-supported approaches in health promotion and primary prevention in childhood and adolescence with a central focus on health literacy. In this context, the existing basic orientations, the scientific-theoretical actors' positions and subject areas will be recorded in order to derive explanatory models and scientific- and practice-/policy-theoretical implications before the understanding of reality in relation to the subject of health literacy. The goals can be summarized as follows:

• Conduct literature reviews using standardized methods,
• Qualitative synthesis of policy results,
• Qualitative interview and Delphi studies with relevant actors from the fields of governance and policy,
• erivation of 'good practices' and their validation by means of Delphi study,
• Dissemination: Advocacy and policy dialogues in the sense of the leadership approach, Transfer, utilization and dissemination of policy results.

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