Applications
First round
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WP1 answers the increasing need for openness, transparency, and reproducibility in research, will deliver the day-to-day project and operations management of all the WPs and will facilitate close collaboration and joint expertise development across all Steno Centres.
Effective coordination and management of complex projects such as DP-Next requires modern and innovative approaches to project and operational management. We will employ tools developed and tested at SDCA in the past years (1–5) to offer a practical framework for sharing knowledge and technical skills across centres, aiming to deliver “better research done in less time” (6).
Second round
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Science, while pursuing cutting edge knowledge, lags behind industry in standard operational, organisational, and technological practices, tools, and methods. From this, the core visions of WP1 are to do better research in less time (6) and expand the capacity of modern technical engineering-based skills in research groups across Steno and Denmark. By applying modern operational, engineering, and project management practices, we will optimize work done across the WPs. Through formal and informal upskilling sessions, we will develop data engineering and modern collaborative skills and knowledge in researchers from across the Steno Centers.
At SDCA, we have been developing and applying these practices in multiple projects (1–5), which highlight tangible examples of WP1’s activities. The general strategy for WP1 is to: 1) develop and agree on some basic principles for collaboration between centers and WPs that adhere to open scientific practices and modern collaborative methods; 2) investigate potential barriers to effective cross-Steno collaboration; 3) decide on a set of common tools and standards to use across centers for WP. Specific actions and tasks are found in Figure 1 (b) and Figure 1 (d).
Aside from the traditional management group overseeing the project, we will also have a research operations group that will simplify, streamline, and automate the collaboration and coordination of activities and products between WPs and centers as well as provide a space for learning these technical skills. See Figure 1 (c) and the collaboration section below for more details, as well as Figure 1 (a) for the general project timeline.
A major component of WP1 is also upskilling activities, in collaboration with the NNF-funded software and training-based Seedcase Project (4). Training will focus on skills not often taught to researchers, such as data engineering, modern collaborative practices, and iterative project management methods.
More detail on this WP can be found on the DP-Next website (https://steno-aarhus.github.io/dp-next/wp1/), such as the roadmap, potential challenges, and strategy.
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title Estimated timeline and activities for DP-Next project
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section WP1<br>Management<br>and Collaboration
T1.1 General project management: t1_1, 2025-01-01, 5y
T1.2 Optimising collaboration: t1_2, 2025-01-01, 5y
section WP2<br>Risk Prediction
T2.1 Separate model development: t2_1, 2025-01-01, 18M
T2.2 Machine Learning approaches: t2_2, 2026-01-01, 18M
T2.3 Joint model development: t2_3, 2026-07-01, 18M
T2.4 Validation: t2_4, 2028-01-01, 18M
section WP3<br>Heterogeneity
T3.1 Advanced clustering models: t3_1, 2027-07-01, 18M
T3.2 Deep phenotyping substudy: t3_2, 2025-07-01, 54M
section WP4<br>Development<br>and intervention
T4.1 Investigate barriers and facilitators: t4_1, 2025-01-01, 18M
T4.2 Develop & co-design: t4_2, after t4_1, 18M
T4.3 Pilot test in specific populations: t4_3, after t4_2, 1y
T4.4 Evaluation: t4_4, 2028-07-01, 18M
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title Tasks (T), Milestones (M), and Deliverables (D) for WP1
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section Ongoing<br>activities
T4. Iterate and refine collaboration: imp_collab, 2025-01-01, 5y
T5. Develop project website: imp_proj_web, after collab_agree, 2030-01-01
T9. Develop research ops website: imp_reops_web, after consensus, 2030-01-01
T10. Maintain data infrastructure: imp_seedcase, after seedcase, 2030-01-01
section General<br>setup
T1. Establish working groups: wg, 2025-01-01, 2M
T2. Decide on collaboration approaches: collab_agree, after wg, 10M
T3. Identify collaboration barriers: barriers, after wg, 10M
M1. Setup project website: milestone, web_proj, after barriers, 1M
D1. Collaboration workflow consensus report: milestone, consensus, after web_proj, 1M
M3. Webpage for research ops: milestone, web_reops, after web_proj, 1M
section WP2-linked<br>activities
T6. Setup collaboration workflow: collab_wp2, after web_proj, 6M
D1. R package infrastructure template: milestone, template_rpkg, 2026-06-01, 1M
section WP3-linked<br>activities
T7. Setup data engineering pipeline: de_wp3, after web_proj, 6M
D2. Data engineering pipeline report: milestone, der_wp3, after de_wp3, 1M
D3. Data Management Plan template: milestone, template_dmp, 2027-01-01, 1M
M4. Setup data infrastructure: milestone, seedcase, 2027-01-01, 1M
section WP4-linked<br>activities
M2. Setup knowledge repo: milestone, kr_wp4, after collab_agree, 1M
T8. Build knowledge dissemination pipeline: kmp_wp4, after kr_wp4, 6M
