Fiasco Fest

What a party-workshop can do for a more failure-friendly research culture

This article uses a practical example to show how it is possible to give researchers the space to address career misfortunes and supporting them in figuring out how they want to address them.

From the viewpoint of a researcher development unit at an Austrian university, the Research Careers Campus in Graz, it explores, why failure is a central part of good research, how universities and research teams get creative and open space for failure, what the “party-workshop” called Fiasco Fest is and what impact it can have and how you as a staff developer, HR professional, or researcher developer could take inspiration and implement error-friendliness into your work with researchers.