Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A new postdoc joining a project completes onboarding within their first two weeks: signing data-access agreements, completing ethics training, and shadowing experiments.
- Is an instance
A new beneficiary joining a Horizon Europe consortium completes accession to the GA and CA before participating in WP activities.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A casual one-off external collaborator with no formal project role does not require full onboarding.
- Not an instance
Routine training unrelated to a specific project is not project onboarding.
Editorial commentary
Project onboarding accelerates productive contribution by new members and reduces compliance risk (e.g., ethics training, data-access controls, conflict-of-interest disclosure). Onboarding artefacts typically include a project handbook or wiki, data access provisioning, code repository access, mandatory training (ethics, biosafety, EDI, research integrity), introduction to consortium meetings, and assignment of a mentor or buddy. For consortium partners joining mid-project, onboarding also includes accession to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement.
References
- PMBOK Guide team onboarding; UKRI Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.
Also known as
Project induction · New-member onboarding · Mid-project onboarding
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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