Contents

The toolkit is composed of the following elements:

• About the toolkit: Description of the toolkit.

• Goals and possible outcomes: Goals and possible outcomes of the workshop.

• Practicalities: Information about specific organisational aspects related to this workshop.

• Agenda: an actionable and re-usable workshop agenda, with some practical tips, which you might use to support your own workshop.

• Scenario: During the workshop the participants will be presented with a fictional research project (a scenario) that will underpin their discussions about the composition and skills that the ideal research team will need to have to tackle that particular project. This toolkit offers one possible scenario to support such a discussion, shares some insights which might help you develop an alternative scenario to suit your needs, and also offers some guidance for facilitating the discussion.

• Activity: A step by step explanation of the workshop activity.

• Slide Deck: Presentation template which you can use to introduce the workshop, the scenario and the breakout activities

• Activity Sheet: Printout copy of an activity sheet that each breakout group can use to facilitate their discussion. Print them out in a large format (e.g. A0).