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Our Motivation and Values
"What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems." John W. Gardner 1965 speech
Eidos is Greek for ideas. Our aim is to inspire, facilitate and support our members and partners to be more collaborative, effective and legitimate. Eidos is an independent research institute and think tank. Its objective is to generate new ideas and dialogue on good human capital, social and economic public policy.
We believe that engaged research collaboration and policy innovation contributes to a good society. Eidos is Greek for ideas. Our aim is to inspire, facilitate and support our members and partners to be more collaborative, effective and legitimate. Eidos members include universities and policy leaders. We draw the intellectual strength of our research community into an active dialogue with policy makers and practitioners.
Practical, applied, policy relevant projects and research on valuing and investing in our nation's people
Ideas Consulting and Program Development
Within the Eidos membership there are more than 50 leading research and policy institutes and centres, and over 300 active senior and early career researchers. As a representative body for seven universities, EIDOS is well positioned to recruit academic consultants/advisors with specific skill sets. EIDOS also has a direct line to senior executive in Queensland universities and government, and regularly involves them in advising on EIDOS projects. The real strengths of EIDOS is that it is independent, able to source the best thinkers in the state, and has streamlined processes with member universities to ensure a rapid response to any request for research, consultancy and project work.
Eidos response time is enhanced by our purpose built database-driven website. The website has been developed to maximise the usefulness of the dataset in order to quickly assemble possible research teams and to align our network's research capacity with key state, national and international priorities. The CRTG database utilises an MS SQL Server database and an ASP.NET front end with Visual Basic.NET business logic. The .NET environment was chosen for the application due it is scalability, modularity and massive support base. The scalability and modularity of the .NET platform ensures that inevitable future improvements to the software can be undertaken with minimum effort.
Completed, current and in-development projects
Professor Bruce Muirhead (CEO, Eidos), Professor Peter Andrews (Chief Scientist), The Honourable Rod Welford (Minister for Education, Training and the Arts), Professor Colin Power (Eidos Board Member)
Building a Body of Knowledge
The Eidos Research Program is committed to building resources - financial and intellectual - to invest annually in 1) researching, developing, and prototyping human capital development best practices; 2) building community will and capacity to sustain these practices; and 3) disseminating research, models and tools on investing in, and valuing, people through a range of activities. Eidos Research Cooperatives typically comprise projects that extend over the longer term. The Cooperatives are designed to answer big questions questions that are complex and longterm in nature and require a long term funding commitment. Research Cooperatives are developed collaboratively across the Institute through a process of negotiation with Eidos Senior Executive Council and Research Congress members.
Eidos has been spending the last few years aggregating it's research and development work. We've been collaborating with key thinkers in the university, public and private sector to develop a largescale umbrella research program in human capital - Progress Towards a Human Capital Indicators Project . All our work feeds into it. We are especially excited about our open access and data sharing work undertaken during this same time. Within this program of work we focus on por Eidos Cooperatives on five critical national and state priorities: Community ; Green ; Life ; Safe ; Wired
EidosTV Human capital, data sharing & open innovation Film
Building the Influence of Ideas
Our investment in capacity building aims to develop the skills and resources of the human capital research community in Queensland, and more broadly, Australia . Research capacity building is funded through the conduct of Cooperatives and research projects as well as by discrete activities such as the Eidos Winter School, Research Congress and other activities.
The Annual Eidos Emerge Conference and Winter & Summer School Programs
Disseminating
Dissemination is central to Eidos' aim of providing an evidence base for policy development. Eidos publishes reports from Cooperatives and research and development projects on the Eidos web site. Research and Policy Bulletins are also published by Eidos to summarise the key findings from completed research and to develop the implications of the research findings for policy development. Seminars and conferences are also supported by Eidos including the annual Human Capital Conference - 'PEOPLE'.
EidosTV, EidosPhotos, EidosReads, Forums, Roundtables, Workshops, Reports etc etc
The Eidos Annual Research Congress
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