Forced Virtualization for Research Activities at the Universities: Challenges and Solutions

The article is focused on the possibility to continue research activities as an important part of higher education in the period of pandemic. The purpose of the article is to identify key challenges and the implemented solutions in the process of conducting research activities during the period of COVID-19 quarantine by the scientific teams at the selected HEIs. The article presents the results empirical research conducted in the format of online focus-group with 40 researchers, members of the scientific project teams that are currently implemented at the HEIs. In the conclusions the authors defined the influenced factors of the implementation of scientific research.