Title | Category | Target group |
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Career planning skills trainings/labour market preparation for PhDs/academics | Profesional & Academic Development Networking Institutional strategy | PhD student/Early career researcher R2 - R4 researchers Lecturers (incl. Language Teachers) |
Academic skills training for international PhD students/researchers/academics | Profesional & Academic Development | PhD student/Early career researcher R2 - R4 researchers |
Interdisciplinary summer schools | Profesional & Academic Development Promotion & Visibility | PhD student/Early career researcher |
Institutional small grants available for international PhDs/junior academics | Institutional strategy Profesional & Academic Development | PhD student/Early career researcher |
Institutional fellowships to attract/retain international talent | Profesional & Academic Development | R2 - R4 researchers Lecturers (incl. Language Teachers) |
Title | Description |
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Career planning skills trainings/labour market preparation for PhDs/academics |
One of the reasons why career planning skills trainings are being held is to encourage proactive career planning by equipping participants with the skills, resources and self-assessment information necessary to make informed career choices both inside and beyond academia. Organizing career planning skills trainings and labour market preparation trainings focus on professional career of PhDs and academics who are often uncertain in terms of decision-making for their next future career life. Therefore, the training possibilities for PhDs and academics can help, maintain and improve job skills, professional level of employees and prepare them for possible promotion. By organising these events the HE institutions can benefit in terms of the overall job satisfaction level of their PhDs and academics.
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Academic skills training for international PhD students/researchers/academics |
By offering a wide range of possibilities for helping international research staff (in addition to local staff), including PhD students, develop their professional knowledge and skills higher education institutions enable them to fulfill their potential as researchers, make their stay more meaningful professionally and academically and thus contribute to their professional integration in the institution or the national labour market. |
Interdisciplinary summer schools |
Interdisciplinary summer schools are a rather efficient way of universities and their faculties to introduce international PhD students and academic staff members to the fields of study they could offer. These summer schools could also offer a great opportunity to international PhD students and academic staff members to extend their knowledge on certain topics, introduce them to new ways of teaching certain fields of study as well as to meet new colleagues, and potentially establish connections within academic circles. |
Institutional small grants available for international PhDs/junior academics |
Many universities already have a fund for small institutional grants to support their local PhD students and young researchers in developing various transferable skills (e.g., writing a project/project and financial management of own project), and in preparing future interdisciplinary, international, or cutting-edge projects. Such grants can be used to cover e.g. travel costs, attendance fees for conferences, extra publication, dissemination and science popularisation costs, extra fieldwork, extra lab costs/consumables, individual trainings, etc. Those grants could be offered also to international PhD students and young academics under the same conditions as their local peers. Information on grants should be available in English and easily foundable on the institutional website. The information could be part of the welcome package.
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Institutional fellowships to attract/retain international talent |
One of the most frequent obstacles is the lack of human resources to participate in different types of research projects in the country. Attracting and retaining highly skilled researchers may help to bring new expertise and skills and also to create and maintain research and business relationships. Promoting international mobility of researchers is for the host institution and inevitable part of maintaining them later in the country which may result in overcoming labour shortages and boosting entrepreneurship in knowledge-based sectors in the host country. |