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
10
Description
Students will have to attend some of the congresses which are held in the area of physical activity and sport every year, either as attendees or as participating members in order to submit work at them.
Results
Congress certificates and a report on the theme of the congress for the other doctoral students in the format of seminars and workshops.
Assessment systems
Attendance at the congresses will be monitored by the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program, which will assess the benefit drawn from them upon the basis of several indicators, such as the attendance certificate, the participation certificate and the report on the topics discussed at them, which will be drawn up by the student. More specifically, the student must submit an attendance certificate and/or a certificate for the presentation of the work at the congress for its certification.
Character
Compulsory
Hours
10
Description
During the first three hours, they will be made aware of the legal changes regarding ethics in research. Three more hours will be devoted to a description of the information on and location of the contents which will be presented on ethics by the Ethics Committee of the University of the Basque Country. Finally, a group work will develop a case study for a research project proposal which will be sent to the Ethics Committee for evaluation.
Results
The doctoral students will acquire a precise and practical understanding of the new ethical framework within the University of the Basque Country, where their theses will be developed, including theoretical generalities regarding the ethical rules to be applied in any research. They will learn about the periods of time their projects can be registered for, how to register them and the deadlines they will have to abide by for the planning of their doctoral theses. Finally, in a practical manner, they will face up to the need to propose the evaluation of a research project in writing, in keeping with the documentation and guidelines suggested by the ethical committee of the UPV/EHU. On each occasion, the trainee researchers will have to put into practice the generalities they have learned.
Assessment systems
Attendance at the seminar will be compulsory. Attendance of students will be monitored by means of a list which must sign whenever they attend.
Character
Optional
Hours
720
Description
Within the European framework, stays at centres and foreign universities will be promoted in order to conduct thesis co-tutorships with researchers who work directly on our program and others who, indirectly, have lines of research related to those which are developed in this proposed doctoral program.
Results
The learning results will be directly related to the defence of theses of an international nature, as well as publication arising from the defended doctoral theses of an international nature.
Assessment systems
An original certificate of the stay in the foreign or national centre must be submitted, signed by the receiving institution.