nireEHU Training Activities Programme
Training Plan
Activities of the Doctoral School
Character
Optional
Hours
12
Description
It is planned as a course with compulsory attendance, with a theoretical explanation of each of the modules, which will be accompanied by a series of practical exercises which the participants must perform throughout the sessions.
Results
The doctoral student will acquire the necessary tools to access, evaluate, use and disseminate information in an ethical manner.
Assessment systems
It is an on-site seminar, and therefore attendance is compulsory and will be monitored by means of signatures for each of the modules. At the end of the activity the tutor will be given a report allowing an assessment of the acquisition of the skills associated with this activity.
Character
Optional
Hours
40
Description
These are intensive residential seminars lasting a week. They are conducted in English in an inter-disciplinary and multicultural environment. Forty researchers from each university, in their second year of doctoral training, receive extensive training designed for their future vocational integration in a socio-labour environment not exclusively linked to research at universities and/or public and semi-public centres. All the activities are dynamised by personnel specializing in the organization of doctorials and the facilitation of teamwork. The scheduled activities include visits to companies, research centres and cultural entities selected from both sides of the border, the testimonies of executive doctors and entrepreneurs and teamwork for the joint preparation of an innovative project which will be submitted at the end of the encounter. Participation in the doctorials is optional and does not entail any enrolment fee. All the maintenance, accommodation and transport costs will be financed by the organizing universities, with the help of the funding obtained from the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Aquitaine-Euskadi cooperation fund of the Basque government.
Results
The doctoral students acquire practical training in communication, innovation, teamwork, leadership and entrepreneurship. Based on the testimonies and experiences of different professionals working in companies and associations in the field of culture and language, as well as visits to companies and associations, the students come into direct contact with professional experience. These seminars have an inter-disciplinary approach, grouping the students together in units which combine different universities of origin and areas of knowledge. The experience should provide a wealth of knowledge about how to articulate a future professional project both in and outside the University.
Assessment systems
The whole procedure for the doctorials is overseen by a pedagogical cabinet, with professional advisers who will provide continuous feedback on the group activity and monitor the work done every day by the doctoral students. Once the latter have enrolled for the doctorials, attendance and active participation in the sessions is compulsory.
Program activities
Character
Optional
Hours
420
Description
We recommend doctoral students to carry out a pre-doctoral research placement (in the fourth or fifth semester) at one of the research centres, either national or international, working in the same lines of research as the doctoral programme. The research placement must be for a minimum of three months allowing the doctoral candidate to select the international doctoral title.
Results
Conduct part of the research project in a different environment. Encourage the exchange of knowledge and resources. Acquire research experience in a different sphere.
Assessment systems
Prior to carrying out the doctoral placement, the doctoral candidate, supervisor, and tutor at the chosen centre will make a timetable of the research activities the student will carry out. Once the placement has finished, the doctoral candidate will present a detailed report. The supervisor/tutor will be in charge of monitoring activities.
Character
Optional
Hours
10
Description
Lectures given by visiting professors. This will be planned by the thesis supervisor according to the guest lectures taking place during the doctorate.
Results
New focuses, techniques, applications, and scientific-technological advances in general.
Assessment systems
This activity will be monitored through attendance and the writing of reports or summaries of the seminar. The tutor/supervisor will be in charge of monitoring activities.
Character
Optional
Hours
8
Description
Workshops within the project framework and scientific meetings. This will be planned by the thesis supervisor according to the theme of the workshops being put on during the doctorate. The Academic Commission will encourage active participation from all students, either as an attendee or speaker (conference or poster) based on their level of progress in their doctoral studies.
Results
The workshops aim to provide a setting to exchange knowledge, foster skills in discussing results in a team, and train students in communication.
Assessment systems
Attendance register. Produce reports or summaries of the workshop. The tutor/supervisor will be in charge of monitoring activities.