The scientific world is facing the "quality revolution": not only results have been led to research and social community attention, but also reliability, safety and efficacy of discoveries and efficiency of fund exploitation. Quality management in scientific R&D has become an essential tool in ensuring that modern scientific development is implemented within a rigorous and robust quality framework. The need for Quality standards in non-regulated research is a matter of considerable current debate inside international research community. The qPMO is a research network involving 5 different Institutes and two Departments of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), aimed at realizing a Total Quality Management (TQM) model for Life Sciences laboratories. This TQM OpenLab model will act as a uniform environment in which strong, innovation-oriented research projects can be designed and developed according to international Quality standards and with the planning of Horizon 2020. qPMO covers four different fields to experiment with a specific Quality approach to scientific research and to generate models for the implementation of Quality methodologies in science. Our experience demonstrated that Quality tools can strongly support the management of scientific research through disseminating knowledge, best practice and interoperability and enhance of the economic value of project and research outcomes.
The qPMO network: quality management tools to improve research efficiency, reproducibility, data management and dissemination
Antonella Bongiovanni;Giovanna Lucia Liguori;Gianni Colotti;Anna Maria Cirafici;Filomena Anna Digilio;Giuseppina Lacerra;Anna Mascia;Annamaria Kisslinger
2016
Abstract
The scientific world is facing the "quality revolution": not only results have been led to research and social community attention, but also reliability, safety and efficacy of discoveries and efficiency of fund exploitation. Quality management in scientific R&D has become an essential tool in ensuring that modern scientific development is implemented within a rigorous and robust quality framework. The need for Quality standards in non-regulated research is a matter of considerable current debate inside international research community. The qPMO is a research network involving 5 different Institutes and two Departments of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), aimed at realizing a Total Quality Management (TQM) model for Life Sciences laboratories. This TQM OpenLab model will act as a uniform environment in which strong, innovation-oriented research projects can be designed and developed according to international Quality standards and with the planning of Horizon 2020. qPMO covers four different fields to experiment with a specific Quality approach to scientific research and to generate models for the implementation of Quality methodologies in science. Our experience demonstrated that Quality tools can strongly support the management of scientific research through disseminating knowledge, best practice and interoperability and enhance of the economic value of project and research outcomes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
