To accompany and train the mentors, CREAF has counted on Louise Schubert, a specialist who has been accompanying research centres on this journey for years. Regarding her work with specialists who take on the role of mentoring, Schubert highlights the particularity of “introducing a new skill to research staff who are really wise and experienced, but who perhaps have not developed interpersonal skills as much.” This is why she highlights that one must “help them to reflect,” with the final intention of “establishing relationships, creating trust, asking the right questions, listening, helping to find answers.” And she sums up the journey as a way to “enrich everyone and open doors.”
The second edition of FAR at CREAF coincides with the second Severo Ochoa scientific excellence award that the center is currently receiving. In this context, Teresa Rosas reflects on the importance of "institutionally actively promoting these spaces to promote a good research culture."