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
Compulsory
Hours
6
Description
The students on the program will hold an internal academic workshop each year and present their results and doubts and the general and specific problems of their research to the other members of the program. All the students (both part-time and full-time) must participate in at least 3 annual workshops before the defense of the thesis.
Results
The doctoral students will show their ability to propose and design (with the appropriate materials and bibliography) the research necessary to develop their own hypotheses and to summarize and synthesize the partial conclusions of their research.
Assessment systems
The Academic Committee will appoint a workshop coordinator who, on its completion, will draw up a report on the participation and its significant results. This report will be sent to the tutors and thesis directors of the doctoral students who have participated so that the participation in the workshop appears in the personalized activity document.
Character
Compulsory
Hours
10
Description
The seminar will focus on the different analyses and problems of a particular scientific topic related to lines of research into Basque Grammar, History and Prehistory of the Language, Basque Dialectology and Linguistics applied to the Basque Language. There will be exercises and presentations of a practical nature and the doctoral students will have to present their experience and the direct relationship of their work and analysis with the topics analyzed by the speakers in the seminar.
Results
The students will understand and know how to present, analyze and evaluate traditional and new theories, methods and arguments related to the subject of Basque linguistics developed at the seminar.
Assessment systems
It will be the responsibility of the professor in charge of the teaching to certify the successful participation of the students. This professor will draw up a report recording the attendance and, if appropriate, at the discretion of the professor, the form of evaluation used, which will normally consist of a detailed oral presentation of a short research work. This report will be sent to the tutors and thesis directors of the doctoral students who have participated in the seminar, for the purposes of its inclusion in the personalized activity document.
Character
Compulsory
Hours
8
Description
It is envisaged that, once a year, the doctoral program will organize research seminars in collaboration with the Centre de Recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER-UMR 5478), seminars in which the doctoral students and the researchers of the above centre and the UPV/EHU will be able to present and discuss their research. These seminars will be alternately held on the premises of IKER-UMR 5478 in Bayonne (France) and at the Faculty of Arts of the UPV/EHU, as stiplulated in the corresponding cooperation agreement, currently being drawn up. All the students (both part-time and full-time) must participate in at least 2 workshops before the defense of the thesis. At the annual conference, the students and the researchers from both the UPV/EHU and the IKER-UMR 5478, together with other invited experts, will discuss issues related to the corpus, bibliography, theoretical-methodological bases, presentation and defense of hypotheses, partial conclusions, research advances, etc.
Results
The students will be able to present, analyze and evaluate traditional and new theories, methods and arguments in the subject chosen from the lines of research of the program. They should also show their ability to propose and design (with the appropriate materials and bibliography) the research necessary to develop their own hypotheses and to summarize and synthesize the partial conclusions of their research within a context of international scientific debate.
Assessment systems
The Academic Committee will appoint a workshop coordinator who, on its completion, will draw up a report on the participation and its most significant results. This report will be sent to the tutors and thesis directors of the doctoral students who have participated for the purposes of its inclusion in the personalized activity document. Similarly, as is customary at seminars and conferences of an international nature, attendance at the said meetings will be verified and the resulting attendance certificates will be issued.
Character
Compulsory
Hours
10
Description
The seminar will focus on the different analyses and problems of a particular scientific topic related to lines of research into the History of Basques Texts and Basque Literature. There will be exercises and presentations of a practical nature and the doctoral students will have to present their experience and the direct relationship of their work and analysis with the topics analyzed by the speakers in the seminar.
Results
The students will understand and know how to present, analyze and evaluate traditional and new theories, methods and arguments related to the subject of Basque literature and philology developed at the seminar.
Assessment systems
It will be the responsibility of the professor in charge of the teaching to certify the successful participation of the students. This professor will draw up a report recording the attendance and, if appropriate, at the discretion of the professor, the form of evaluation used, which will normally consist of a detailed oral presentation of a short research work. This report will be sent to the tutors and thesis directors of the doctoral students who have participated in the seminar, for the purposes of its inclusion in the personalized activity document.
Character
Optional
Hours
480
Description
The students, especially full-time students, in agreement with their tutors and thesis directors, will discuss, when preparing their research, the possibility of a three-month stay at a prestigious research centre outside the UPV/EHU. This stay will lead to a Doctor award or International Doctor award in the case of foreign institutions. Each student will choose the most suitable host centre, depending on the subject of his or her doctoral thesis and training needs.
Results
The students will learn the new research trends of the subject of the doctoral thesis, present and discuss aspects of their research in a context of broader debate (either national or international) and obtain, if appropriate, a Doctor or International Doctor Award.
Assessment systems
The responsible person at the host centre will draw up, at the end of the stay, a report on the research activities of the students, which will be sent to the tutor and director for its inclusion in the personalized activity document. The obligatory nature of the report will be stipulated in the agreements on collaboration, mobility and the joint supervision of doctoral theses or similar signed by the UPV/EHU with other research institutions.