nireEHU Training Activities Programme
Training Plan
Activities of the Doctoral School
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
Description
This activity envisages the following actions: - Publication by the Academic Committee of the Program of the possibilities offered by groups of universities and external centres for conducting research stays for doctoral students. - Updates, on the web pages of each of the master's and doctoral school of the UPV/EHU (MDe) of the information relating to aids for the conducting of stays and doctorates in co-tutorship with reference universities and centres.
Results
Increasing the ability to work in multidisciplinary and multicultural environments. Increasing communication in other languages. Promoting the social skills to work in collaboration with other researchers.
Assessment systems
The thesis directors will be responsible for ensuring control of the following deliverables: - Certificate of the completion of the student's stay. - Report on the activities conducted during the stay, signed by the supervisor of the said activity. - Publications or joint papers at conferences which have arisen from the stay. - If the stay is longer than 3 months at foreign universities and centres, a proposal for the writing of an international thesis.
Character
Compulsory
Hours
5
Description
The seminars will be organized by the people responsible for the different lines of research of the Doctoral Program, possibly involving speakers of the program itself and other prestigious guest researchers. Using audiovisual media, the speaker will develop an advanced research topic, focussing on what the most appropriate tools are for the particular topic and why they have been selected.
Results
The following learning outcomes are established for thematic seminars: - To acquire the capacity for critical analysis of the materials submitted by other fellow researchers. - To acquire the ability to communicate with other senior researchers through the realisation of questions or requests for further information on specific aspects of research work. - To acquire the ability to communicate in writing the conclusions drawn both on the subject presented and on the research tools.
Assessment systems
The seminar organizers will ensure control of the following aspects: - Compulsory attendance. - Drawing up of a concluding report by the doctoral student.