Management Best Practices in Support of Research Infrastructure Operations

BioData.pt, the Portuguese Infrastructure of Biological Data and the Portuguese Node of ELIXIR, is a joint venture of many Portuguese researchers from several national organisations, since 2010. In 2021, for sake of excellence in governance and management to support bioinformatics, data management and computing resources and services for researchers in Portugal, 12 Portuguese R&I entities founded Associação BIP4DAD to be the legal entity of BioData.pt. BioData.pt has adopted tight Management Control Systems, developed in the frame of ELIXIR-Converge and the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures to effectively support its daily operations. It has also started implementing a thorough communications workflow.