EASY GOV – Laboratory Management Platform Erasmus Project

Project Title

EASY GOV – Laboratory Management Platform

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Research and innovation; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

The pandemic situation of COVID-19 demonstrated the need to integrate technologies with the capacity to perform rapid and intelligent data analysis to support laboratory management. Laboratory activities will be more successful as more attention is devoted to redesigning their processes systematically, using the best management practices.
The project EASY GOV aims to develop a simplified, assertive and innovative laboratory management platform, based on common guidelines to motivate and increase the efficiency of human resources and reduce operation cost within the institutions. The project improves online, distance and mixed learning.
This web-platform will help the management of all laboratorial needs and facilities such as laboratory equipment, chemicals, collections of microorganisms, laboratory wastes, laboratory material, laboratory spaces, services, laboratory safety and training taking into account the innovative practices to be adopted face to the COVID-19 pandemic. The platform will promote the implementation and development in institutions of an increased security culture.
Nowadays, we do not find an integrated solution, capable of simultaneously managing all the skills necessary for the laboratory environment imposed by the pandemic COVID-19.
Objectives of EASY GOV project are: to promote an innovative practice in a digital era, capable of meeting expectations/needs and experiences in a European/international context face to COVID-19 pandemic; to promote an easy, effective and efficient management tool at the level of institutions with laboratory facilities; to promote internationalization; to promote transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications; to contribute to organizational modernization.
The exchange of good laboratory management practices between partners at international level is enriching for the project, as it allows the sharing of experiences and the confrontation of ideas, practices and methods to promote the exchange of good laboratory practices to be adopted face to COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that the project is developed at a transnational level allows the contribution of several laboratory experiences in different countries, contributes to the development of a platform capable of responding to needs in an international context, face to pandemic COVID-19. The platform will be organized into various modules according to the needs and facilities to promoting transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications.
Participants will be involved in the different activities of the project according to their abilities and experiences and needs. During the development phase, pilot tests will be applied with about fifty participants from each partner university (department/centres directors, teachers, lab technicians and researchers), who work in laboratories.
Intellectual outputs will involve the development of the specific activities: information gathering based on the specifications received by the participants and other partners of the consortium; development of the management modules in the platform; functionality and usability tests; preparation of a Demo Guide to exemplify the way the EASY GOV platform works and data will be loaded according to the institution.
The consortium will implement and use a collaborative work platform to centralize the documentation, discussions and critical information of the project, its activities and results.
At the end, each partner will have an independent platform. The platform will be developed in order to allow access to other institutions, ensuring the transferability of the process and promoting internationalization.
The results will translate into productivity gains for institutions, reducing time and costs and increasing motivation for researchers and technicians face to the circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The expected impact on the target groups is that they become aware of and motivate to implement in their institutions platform, because it is important to follow good laboratory practices in a fast, low cost and assertive way face to COVID-19 pandemic.
After the project, the potential longer term benefits are: the institutions of the consortium will have an improvement of institutional and system-level governance to be adopted face to the COVID-19 pandemic; can provide effective mechanisms to respond to specific situations; sharing of good practices, knowledge and experiences; have a recognition of the Universities “effective and safe” Universities, that are worried about the safety of their laboratories; strengthening excellence and competitiveness of the educational sector through greater transnational collaboration and networking; reduce/stop using paper and become more sustainable universities; reduce costs and gain competitiveness.
This platform is an essential tool to ensure the safety and the good management of Laboratories in order to the respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 262040 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO & Country: PT

Project Partners

• PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS
• NEW CONSULTING – INFORMATION SYSTEMS, LDA
• RIGAS STRADINA UNIVERSITATE
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA