Some disciplines and areas of knowledge are especially conducive to carry out actions in the medium or long term from a theoretical approach. These actions are generally related to the investigation of aspects of reality or specific training processes.
Research and training projects address such aspects. They are those that are destined to gather information and to demonstrate hypotheses on specific topics. The method used for this purpose is scientific, although not all the disciplines that develop belong to the pure sciences.
On the contrary, apart from physics, chemistry, biology and biotechnology, among others, projects of philosophy, history, geography, anthropology, education, literature and other humanistic ones also fall into this category. The identity of the project is marked by its hypothesis, the degree of inquiry it proposes and the use that is given to the results obtained.
Research and training: why do they go together?
There are research projects and training projects. However, when putting together the two words, it is necessary to make an indent and stop to analyze what this means. What are we talking about exactly? We have already mentioned that the research refers to the exploration of a specific topic.
Now, if we link that to training, we get a project that we can define as follows: one that focuses on the investigation of an event and whose results are the object of training in that subject. If the results were the end point of the process, it would be a research project; However, in this case it is a question of putting the results of the inquiry into practice so that they become formative subjects. We speak, then, of initiatives with a double and complementary purpose.
Characteristics of a research and training project
These projects depend to a large extent on the work plan outlined. It is not the same, for example, to elaborate a chronogram for a historical inquiry than for another related to chemistry. However, it is possible to define a set of strategic aspects that, beyond the area of intervention, are present in projects of this type:
Part of a research problem or hypothesis. Its basic tool is the scientific method, with which the matrix that feeds it is a question, doubt or aspect about which there is no clarity.
It is linked to an aspect of reality. It is not mere lucubration; The hypotheses must be related to the aspects of reality that are defined as objects of study. In the same way, when translating the results into training material, it must be done taking into account that the theory is as close as possible to the reality that has been studied.
It uses rigorous methods. In a project of this type, the collection of information must follow certain rigor and be tested and proven. The success of your results will depend on this.
Define one or several lines of research. In general, research projects have one or at most two lines of research, which refer to the routes undertaken by their managers. That does not mean they are static; they can be modified during the process as long as the object of study is not altered or substantially modified.