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) |
Institutional small grants available for international PhDs/junior academics | Institutional strategy Profesional & Academic Development | PhD student/Early career researcher |
Knowledge sharing inter-institutional communication platform for support staff (closed group) | Institutional Processes Administrative & Legal Support | Administrative staff Management staff |
Online mobility management App | Administrative & Legal Support | PhD student/Early career researcher R2 - R4 researchers Lecturers (incl. Language Teachers) |
Central IT mobility system/database | Administrative & Legal Support | PhD student/Early career researcher Lecturers (incl. Language Teachers) Administrative staff |
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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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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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Knowledge sharing inter-institutional communication platform for support staff (closed group) |
A communication platform designed to facilitate the exchange of information among staff working in various institutions that support international academics and PhD students. Knowledge sharing involves a multi-directional exchange of information resources where each institution is both a donor and a receiver of knowledge. Therefore every institution involved should have the possibility to profit from as well as contribute to the knowledge-sharing platform. A community of experts from across different HEIs and research organisations can be created via such a platform.
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Online mobility management App |
A simple online mobility management app enabling an inviting person/department to enter all the parameters on incoming PhDs/academics prior to his/her stay, sending out an auto-generated welcoming email (s) with information and access to all university services (online library, pass/card, other electronic services before their coming to the receiving institution.) easing thus the whole pre-arrival process immensely.
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Central IT mobility system/database |
IT mobility system/database is an important segment in organizing information regarding mobility. Each institution should develop its own database, and, if needs be, offer information from it to the other institutions. |