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STRATEGIC PRIORITY 3: Strengthen/Expand Strategic Partnerships at All Levels
Goals
Key Actions
Indicators/Measures of Success
Enhance faculty collaboration across disciplines and crop species.
• Provide monetary incentives for strategic goal implementation teams.
• Emphasize team building through TREC’s social activities.
• Consider holding an annual retreat to maintain our progress and momentum.
• Explore opportunities to offer multidisciplinary short courses.
• Hold an annual research and extension poster session and/or roundtable to highlight TREC’s work (invite various stakeholders such as key local, state and legislative people (i.e., their aides), heads of agricultural groups, company executives).
• Prepare inventory of interdisciplinary work within TREC and identify
needs and opportunities for greater interdisciplinary and interspecies work.
• Initiate a rotating recognition of team- building and productivity excellence.
• Increased levels of synergy, resource sharing, and teamwork.
• More productive and impactful programs.
• Number of individual grants with faculty from TREC and UF at large.
• Number of short courses offered and participants
• Amount of funds generated from offering of professional developments short courses.
Mobilize more external resources to support program actions
• Leverage network of people and other assets.
• Increased funding from non-USDA and non-FDACS external sources.
• Increased number of positions, students, postdocs, and visiting scientists funded by partners
• Increased number of projects funded by partners.
Strengthen and expand national
and international collaborations to promote TREC’s excellence in research and mobilize resources
• Expand existing partnerships and collaboration.
• Build strategic partnerships with a broad range of local, national and global networks.
• Engage with other centers and institutes around the world on educational and visiting scholars’ programs.
• Increased number of meaningful Memoranda of Understanding and partnerships established.
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