Annual Intensive Training Courses - Complementary Skills
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These courses have been designed with the awareness that while training courses on S&T topics are generally provided to young researchers, training to develop complementary skills are offered only at few universities. This trend is however slowly changing and the most motivated students appreciate the importance of complementary training programs to boost their scientific career. The associated partner EUrelations offers a full range of training courses complementary to research since 2005. EUrelations interacts with the NC as well as with the SB to propose one course per year, according to the format schematically indicated above .
| General Information | |
| Time | 8:30-12:30h and 13:30-17:00h, short lunch break |
| Participants | Limited to 25 young scientists |
| Training methodology | The training is based on a mix of short theoretical inputs and practical exercises in groups in which the theory will be applied to real projects/ideas of the participants. |
| Course material | Handouts, exercises, templates and case studies will be provided as well as a list of literature for further reading. |
| Language | The course will be held in English. For to answer to specific questions, the trainers are also fluent in e.g. German/French/ (some in Dutch or Italian). |
| Location | The location of the courses is decided within WP1 |
| YEAR I - Title: PERSONAL SKILL SET | |
| Day 1 | Introduction: Benchmarks for successful scientific/professional careers Basic skill set and how to actively plan your research/industrial career |
| Day 2 |
Curriculum vitae Presentation techniques Self marketing |
| Day 3 |
Team Leadership, Self Management, Time Management |
| Day 4 |
Planning and organising R&D projects I - Requirements engineering |
| YEAR II - Title: SCIENTIFIC WRITING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT | |
| Day 1 | Scientific writing (Academic partners) |
| Day 2 |
Planning and organising your R&D projects II - Systems analysis, stakeholder analysis |
| Day 3 |
Planning and organising your R&D projects III - Work breakdown structures, Pert/Gantt Charts, etc. |
| Day 4 |
Risk management and problem solving Portfolio management |
| YEAR III - Title: FUNDRAISING & GRANT WRITING | |
| Day 1 | Fundraising for Research: Individual Fellowships |
| Day 2 |
Fundraising for Research II: Public Funding Industrial cooperation |
| Day 3 |
Fundraising for Research III: Foundations |
| Day 4 |
Proposal writing exercises |
| YEAR IV - Title: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS & FINANCES | |
| Day 1 | Intellectual property rights & patent search |
| Day 2 |
Financial controlling of R&D projects |
| Day 3 |
Topics be defined according to the need of the IDPbyNMR-researchers – evaluation through social community networks and questionnaire |
IDP by NMR is a Marie Curie
activity funded under
FP7 people programme
activity funded under
FP7 people programme