RICET is a network consisting of over 20 national research groups, headed by their principal researchers (IP).
The RICET management entities are: the Executive Committee, the Scientific Committee, Educational Committee and General Committee. RICET’s work is structured into programmes, whose objectives were established by the groups that participate in them and which are coordinated by one of the researchers. The Scientists Mobility Program, between groups and institutions, is the basis of the development of the cooperative projects.
RICET also has shared resources with several associated clinical groups and with tropical country structures, established by the research groups with their international partners, and which are used to apply the research.
Finally, RICET has an Animal Experimentation Platform featuring all the models to study the network’s different thematic pathologies.
PROPOSED RESEARCH PLAN
RICET is divided into large areas: applied/basic research, clinical research, educational programme, associated clinical groups, databases, biobanks and platforms and these areas are in turn structured into Programmes.
RICET currently consists of the following programmes:
- Malaria
- Leishmaniasis
- Chagas Disease
- Sleeping Disease
- Helminths
- Emerging viral diseases
- Epidemiological and clinical research
RICET MANAGEMENT ENTITIES
Executive Committee
This committee comprises the Coordinator, the network Project Manager, the Educational Committee coordinator and six principal researchers who represent the network's interests, proposed by the Network Coordination team and that are accepted by all the network's groups.
It seeks to oversee compliance of RICET objectives and has the capacity to decide relevant aspects regarding RICET’s operating, structure and continuity. It shall foster the interaction among the different groups of the centre, and between clinical and basic research. It shall likewise use its knowledge and be responsible for recommending proposals from the Network to the Scientific Committee. This committee is the maximum entity of the Network and shall act as the arbitrator for any conflicts of interest that may emerge. They shall normally meet at least three times a year, after being convened by the Network Coordinator, or extraordinarily when convened by the Network Coordinator and/or at least half of its members.
RICET coordination, contact:
Agustín Benito Llanes
se.iiicsi@otineba
María Romay Barja
se.iiicsi@yamorm
Scientific Committee
It comprises the Coordinator, the Project Manager and the Coordinator of each programme. Its purpose is to oversee the compliance of RICET’s scientific objectives, with special emphasis on monitoring the established cooperative projects. It shall define the monitoring meeting schedules of the projects of each research line and shall facilitate the meetings that the main researchers (IP) of each coordinated project has with the members of the participant groups. It shall meet three times a year to establish the meeting timeline of each project and assess their progress at the end of each year
Educational Committee
It shall consist of the Educational Coordinator, Network Coordination, plus 5 or 6 principal researchers who are involved in lecturing. It shall meet twice a year. The first meeting shall be to prepare the organisational timeline of the common teaching programme, gather the new course proposals raised by the different groups, and to select and approve the student and researcher mobility proposals requested by the different groups within the existing cooperative projects and lines.
General Committee
With the participation of all the groups of the network plus its Coordination team. Its duties are to oversee the interests of the network (substantial changes that may emerge in the network, such as reorganisation of the participating groups, budget changes, etc.), in other words, all those changes that may intrinsically affect the continuity and organisation of the network. It shall meet once a year or extraordinarily when so requested by the network coordinator.
The cooperative projects
Each IP leader of each coordinated project shall hold the meetings that it requires and schedules to implement the projects. The IP shall convene an initial meeting to define the specific tasks to be carried out by each of the participating groups and to establish the criteria to disseminate the results of the project that he heads.
