LifeWatch Italy Community Platform

The LifeWatch Italy Community Platform is a dedicated virtual space where people who share the same goals, interests, or motivations can connect and build relationships, business and scientific opportunities. The Community facilitates the networking activities among registered members, that are able to create and manage working groups adding their peers based on their scientific skills. Working groups also include different tools for supporting networking activities such as calendar, repository, forum, blog, wiki, polls, brainstorming, and conference calls.

Identification

Date ( Creation ): 2021

Date ( Publication ): 2021-10-01

Date ( Revision ): 2022

Status: Completed

Version: 1.0

Keywords: community

Keywords: scientific skills

Keywords: collaboration

Keywords: scientific opportunities

Keywords: working group

Keywords: networking

Access constraints: Copyright

Use limitation: LifeWatch Italy 2022

Point of contact

University of Salento, LifeWatch Italy - Alberto Basset

Principal investigator

University of Salento, LifeWatch Italy - Alberto Basset

OnLine resource: Link to the platform ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Operation name: Board of opportunities

Web site: https://community.lifewatchitaly.eu/opportunities

Description: It is a section that lists all the opportunities submitted by members of the LifeWatch Italy Community and allows registered members to share ideas, flag discussions, look for project partners, promote events, or advertise fellowships and job openings.

Function: Board of opportunities for registered members.

Operation name: Working groups

Web site: https://community.lifewatchitaly.eu/working-groups

Description: It is a section that facilitates the networking activities among registered members that are able to create and manage working groups using different tools such as calendar, repository, forum, blog, wiki, polls, brainstorming, and conference calls.

Function: Working groups

Operation name: Scientific skills

Web site: https://community.lifewatchitaly.eu/directory-of-scientific-skills

Description: It implements the directory of scientific skills. Registered members can indeed specify their skills and competences in their profiles and voluntarily become part of the LifeWatch Italy Help Desk agents team.

Function: It allows to have a quick way to search for expertise in the LifeWatch Italy Community. This feature can be very useful for calls for proposals, projects development, meetings organizations, etc.

Operation name: FAQs

Web site: https://community.lifewatchitaly.eu/faqs/

Description: It is a section where to find all Frequently Asked Questions related to the LifeWatch Italy Community Platform.

Function: Frequently Asked Questions.

Service Category: community platform

Service Language: eng

Service TRL: TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Service Funding: The development of the LifeWatch Italy Community Platform has been funded by the project LIFEWATCHPLUS PIR01_00028 (CUP: B67E19000030007) in the framework of NOP Research and Innovation 2014-2020 under the action “Enhancement of Research Infrastructures”.