European Glycoscience Community: Communities of Practice - A quick survey to hear your initial thoughts and input

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* 1. Which Community of Practice session are you attending?

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* 2. Are you already familiar with Communities of Practices (CoP)? You may know them by other names e.g. forums, discussion groups, ... They are groups who share a passion about a topic, and/or a concern, set of problems, and deepen their knowledge/expertise by interacting on an ongoing basis. e.g. NuGO; on the joint development of the research areas of molecular nutrition, personalised nutrition, nutrigenomics and nutritional systems biology

Yes

Not sure

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* 3. Do you know of others forums that exist that are linked to Glycoscience and you think may follow the principles of a CoP? e.g. CarboMet Workshops, NuGo; focusing on the joint development of the research areas of molecular nutrition, personalised nutrition, nutrigenomics and nutritional systems biology.
Please list any you know of below.

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* 4. Where it is paid membership, are you a member of these?

Yes

Some

No, but make use of any benefits that they offer for free

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* 5. What do like about those that you are part of, or have access to?

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* 6. What do you not like?

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* 7. What do you think is missing that you would like to see?

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* 8. If not already covered in the previous questions, what would you like to see from this community and the community of practices?

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* 9. Below is a description of 4 types of communities of practices, which type would you like to be part of? You can tick more than one.

Helping Community: Typically decide for themselves what knowledge to share how to assess its value, and how to disseminate good ideas to the rest of the community.

Best Practice Community: Focus on developing validating and disseminating specific practices. Whereas helping communities rely on members’ knowledge of each other to verify new practices, best practice communities have a specific process to verify the effectiveness and benefit of practices

Knowledge Sharing Community: Like other communities, those that primarily steward knowledge host forums for members to connect, develop, and verify practices, but their main aim is to organise, upgrade and distribute the knowledge their members use every day.

Innovation Community: All communities innovate by encouraging individuals to develop and contribute practices, but the specific intent of some communities is to foster unexpected ideas and innovations. They are similar to helping communities, but they intentionally cross boundaries to mix members who have different perspectives.

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* 10. Although we are still in the progress of mapping what other similar glycoscience communities exist so that we co-create a community that works alongside them; we are likely to be a non profit organisation with a form of membership framework in place with fees (possible range from 25 to 50 Euros for students to 100 - 150 Euros for others per year). Would you be prepared to pay a membership fee?

Yes - once it is clear what it is delivering and the benefits

Yes - only if provides clear additional benefits to those I am a ready a member of

No - I am already a member of too many

European Glycoscience Community: Communities of Practice - A quick survey to hear your initial thoughts and input

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* 1. Which Community of Practice session are you attending?

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* 4. Where it is paid membership, are you a member of these?

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* 5. What do like about those that you are part of, or have access to?

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* 6. What do you not like?

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* 7. What do you think is missing that you would like to see?

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* 8. If not already covered in the previous questions, what would you like to see from this community and the community of practices?

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* 9. Below is a description of 4 types of communities of practices, which type would you like to be part of? You can tick more than one.

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* 11. If you would like to, please add any other comments you would like to at this stage for consideration